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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 Alpha?
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https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/tree/alpha
Elements Alpha is the Elements project's first experimental test chain.
What is Elements?
----------------
Compared to Bitcoin itself, it adds the following features:
* [Confidential Transactions][confidential-transactions]
* [Segregated Witness][segregated-witness]
* [Relative Lock Time][relative-lock-time]
* [Schnorr Signatures][schnorr-signatures]
* [Additional opcodes][opcodes]
* [Deterministic Peg (pegged to Bitcoin's testnet currency).][deterministic-peg]
* [Deterministic Peg][deterministic-peg]
* [Signed Blocks][signed-blocks]
Getting Started
---------------
See alpha-README.md for build and use instructions.
Previous elements that have been integrated into Core:
* [Segregated Witness][segregated-witness]
* [Relative Lock Time][relative-lock-time]
Elements deferred for additional research and standardization:
* [Schnorr Signatures][schnorr-signatures]
License
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Elements Alpha is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
Elements is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
[confidential-transactions]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/confidential-transactions