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-This is DaniCoin.
+# Danicoin
+
+This is Danicoin, the best cryptocurrency out there.
+
+## Building
+
+There are currently no pre-built binaries available. To build Danicoin on an
+Ubuntu machine, you first need to install some dependencies:
+
+```
+sudo apt install git build-essential cmake libboost-all-dev
+```
+
+You can then fetch the code and compile it like this:
+
+```
+git clone https://kumig.it/kumitterer/danicoin.git
+cd danicoin
+make
+```
+
+The binaries (you will primarily want to use danicoind and daniwallet) will be
+placed into the "build/release/src" subdirectory of the danicoin source 
+directory. You may want to move them to /usr/bin like this:
+
+```
+sudo install build/release/src/dani{coind,wallet,ct,miner,walletd} /usr/bin
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+### danicoind
+
+Danicoin's core component is the daemon, danicoind. It is responsible for 
+keeping your copy of the blockchain in sync. Assuming you have installed it to 
+/usr/bin as seen above, you can just fire it up like this:
+
+```
+danicoind
+```
+
+Please note that running it for the first time might take a while as the entire
+blockchain will have to be downloaded.
+
+danicoind should not require any configuration as such. By default, it will
+store its data, including a full copy of the blockchain, in the ".danicoin" 
+subdirectory of your user directory.
+
+If you need to change any settings, you may pass them as arguments to danicoind
+or write them to a configuration file. If a "danicoin.conf" file exists in the
+data directory (~/.danicoin), its settings will be used by default.
+
+You can find the arguments accepted by danicoind by executing:
+
+```
+danicoind --help
+```
+
+A sample configuration file can be found [in this repository](/danicoin.conf).
+
+### daniwallet
+
+The easiest way to create and manage Danicoin wallets is using daniwallet. To
+create your first wallet, named "mywallet" in this example, execute:
+
+```
+daniwallet --generate-new-wallet mywallet
+```
+
+daniwallet will then ask you for a password and generate your new wallet. Two
+files will be stored in your current working directory - mywallet.wallet and
+mywallet.address. mywallet.wallet contains the actual wallet, mywallet.address
+contains the wallet address you use to receive payments.
+
+In order to use daniwallet with an existing wallet, navigate to the directory
+containing your mywallet.wallet, then execute:
+
+```
+daniwallet --wallet-file mywallet
+```
+
+Once daniwallet is running, you can, for instance, type in "balance" and press
+Enter to see your current balance. To transfer money to another wallet, you may
+use the following command (replacing "recipient_address" with the actual address
+of the receiving wallet and "amount" with the amount of Danicoin to send):
+
+```
+transfer 3 recipient_address amount
+```
+
+You can find out about the other commands using "help".
+
+### daniminer
+
+If you want to try and generate some Danicoin yourself, you may use the included
+miner. Usage is fairly simple - if you don't have a good reason to modify the
+default settings, just run (replacing "your_address" with the Danicoin address
+which should receive the mining rewards):
+
+```
+daniminer --address your_address
+```
+
+If you want to play around with daniminer's settings, you may find all available
+command line arguments by executing:
+
+```
+daniminer --help
+```
+
+## GUI wallet
+
+A graphical frontend to Danicoin is available at [kumitterer/danicoinwallet]
+(https://kumig.it/kumitterer/danicoinwallet).