Bitcoin 0.15.1 doesn't build with boost 1.66.
I'm hesitant to apply untested patches to software like Bitcoin.
Instead I'm forcing the boost dependency to version 1.64 (which is the version listed @
45173fa6fc/doc/dependencies.md).
Nothing in applications/altcoins/default.nix was using the boost162 parameter, so I've replaced it with the boost164 parameter.
I have also updated the dependencies for bitcoin:
* qt4 is updated to qt5
* miniupnpc 1 is updated to miniupnpc 2
* zeromq dependency has been added to enable ZeroMQ support.
This also upgrades the hsevm package from v0.6.4 to v0.8.5.
The project `dapp` which depends on hsevm was also updated to use the
new name, so I have also upgraded that package from version v0.5.3 to
v0.5.7.
I also added a `dontCheck` to a Hackage dependency because its test
suite depends on Git and runs a bunch of Git repository manipulations.
This updates namecoin from a legacy version from about 3 years ago
(https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin-legacy) to
the new namecoin-core.
(cherry picked from commit 8bd3664f373cb78a0526dc8a86e750f55b96420a)
A portion of Bitcoin users (including the super-majority of the
miners) decided to hard fork to segwit2x around this November. At that
time this will not be compatible with the Bitcoin Core client. 1.14.5
is known as "the Production Release".
Primecoin is an altcoin which uses prime-searching as its proof-of-work.
It is the first energy-multiuse altcoin - normally, the proof-of-work algorithms
in altcoins are useful only for the coin itself, but the Primecoin algorithm
is very useful to mathematical research..
Here, I present a new level of hierarchy on Nixpkgs: the Altcoins.
The idea is to put a single cryptocurrency per file, and build them
using expressions like altcoins.bitcoin. I believe this ordering is
clearer and more maintainable that the current one.
