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The Elements Project
Elements blockchain platform
=================================
This is the integration and staging tree for the Elements Project, a series of
improvements and extensions to the Bitcoin protocol.
This is the integration and staging tree for the Elements blockchain platform,
a collection of feature experiments and extensions to the Bitcoin protocol.
This platform enables anyone to build their own businesses or networks
involving sidechain pegged Bitcoin or arbitrary asset tokens.
What is the Elements Project?
-----------------
Elements is an open source collaborative project where we work on a collection
of experiments to more rapidly bring technical innovation to Bitcoin. Elements
are features that are proposed and developed in this technical community that in
arbitrary combinations can be fashioned into sidechains.
https://github.com/ElementsProject/elementsproject.github.io
Learn more on [the Elements Project website](https://www.elementsproject.org).
What is Bitcoin?
Confidential Assets
----------------
https://www.bitcoin.org
The latest feature in the Elements blockchain platform is Confidential Assets,
the ability to issue multiple assets on a blockchain where asset identifiers
and amounts are blinded yet auditable through the use of applied cryptography.
Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to
anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate
with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried
out collectively by the network. Elements Alpha is the name of open source
software which enables the use of this currency.
* [Confidential Assets Tutorial](share/rpcuser/assets_tutorial.sh)
* [Confidential Assets Demo](https://github.com/ElementsProject/confidential-assets-demo)
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
the Bitcoin Core software, see https://www.bitcoin.org/en/download.
What is Elements?
Features of the Elements blockchain platform
----------------
Compared to Bitcoin itself, it adds the following features:
* [Confidential Assets][issued-assets]
* [Confidential Transactions][confidential-transactions]
* [Additional opcodes][opcodes]
* [Deterministic Peg][deterministic-peg]
* [Signed Blocks][signed-blocks]
Previous elements that have been integrated into Core:
Previous elements that have been integrated into Bitcoin:
* [Segregated Witness][segregated-witness]
* [Relative Lock Time][relative-lock-time]
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[opcodes]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/opcodes
[deterministic-peg]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/deterministic-pegs
[signed-blocks]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/signed-blocks
What is the Elements Project?
-----------------
Elements is an open source collaborative project where we work on a collection
of experiments to more rapidly bring technical innovation to the Bitcoin ecosystem.
https://github.com/ElementsProject/elementsproject.org
Learn more on [the Elements Project website](https://www.elementsproject.org).