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The Elements Project
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This is the integration and staging tree for the Elements Project, a series of
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improvements and extensions to the Bitcoin protocol.
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What is the Elements Project?
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Elements is an open source collaborative project where we work on a collection
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of experiments to more rapidly bring technical innovation to Bitcoin. Elements
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are features that are proposed and developed in this technical community that in
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arbitrary combinations can be fashioned into sidechains.
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https://github.com/ElementsProject/elementsproject.github.io
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Learn more on [the Elements Project website](https://www.elementsproject.org).
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What is Bitcoin?
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https://www.bitcoin.org
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Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to
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anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate
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with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried
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out collectively by the network. Elements Alpha is the name of open source
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software which enables the use of this currency.
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For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
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the Bitcoin Core software, see https://www.bitcoin.org/en/download.
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What is Elements?
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Compared to Bitcoin itself, it adds the following features:
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* [Confidential Transactions][confidential-transactions]
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* [Additional opcodes][opcodes]
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* [Deterministic Peg][deterministic-peg]
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* [Signed Blocks][signed-blocks]
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Previous elements that have been integrated into Core:
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* [Segregated Witness][segregated-witness]
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* [Relative Lock Time][relative-lock-time]
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Elements deferred for additional research and standardization:
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* [Schnorr Signatures][schnorr-signatures]
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License
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Elements is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
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information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
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[confidential-transactions]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/confidential-transactions
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[segregated-witness]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/segregated-witness
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[relative-lock-time]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/relative-lock-time
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[schnorr-signatures]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/schnorr-signatures
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[opcodes]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/opcodes
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[deterministic-peg]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/deterministic-pegs
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[signed-blocks]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/signed-blocks
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