zcash/contrib

Wallet Tools

BitRPC

Allows for sending of all standard Bitcoin commands via RPC rather than as command line args.

SpendFrom

Use the raw transactions API to send coins received on a particular address (or addresses).

Repository Tools

Developer tools

Specific tools for developers working on this repository. Contains the script github-merge.sh for merging github pull requests securely and signing them using GPG.

Verify-Commits

Tool to verify that every merge commit was signed by a developer using the above github-merge.sh script.

Linearize

Construct a linear, no-fork, best version of the blockchain.

Qos

A Linux bash script that will set up traffic control (tc) to limit the outgoing bandwidth for connections to the Bitcoin network. This means one can have an always-on bitcoind instance running, and another local bitcoind/bitcoin-qt instance which connects to this node and receives blocks from it.

Seeds

Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client.

Build Tools and Keys

Debian

Contains files used to package bitcoind/bitcoin-qt for Debian-based Linux systems. If you compile bitcoind/bitcoin-qt yourself, there are some useful files here.

Gitian-descriptors

Gavin's notes on getting gitian builds up and running using KVM.

Gitian-downloader

Various PGP files of core developers.

MacDeploy

Scripts and notes for Mac builds.

Test and Verify Tools

TestGen

Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.

Test Patches

These patches are applied when the automated pull-tester tests each pull and when master is tested using jenkins.

Verify SF Binaries

This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from SourceForge.