README.md in zold-0.6 vs README.md in zold-0.6.1
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[](https://codeclimate.com/github/zerocracy/zold/maintainability)
**NOTICE**: It's an experiment and a very early draft! Please, feel free to
submit your ideas or pull requests.
-ZOLD principles include:
-
- * The entire code base is open source;
- * There is no mining, the only way to get ZOLD is to receive it from someone else;
- * Only 2<sup>63</sup> numerals (no fractions) can technically be issued;
- * The first wallet belongs to the issuer and may have a negative balance;
- * A wallet is a plain text file;
- * There is no central ledger, each wallet has its own personal ledger;
- * Each transaction in the ledger is confirmed by [RSA](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_%28algorithm%29) encryption;
- * The network of communicating nodes maintains wallets of users;
- * Anyone can add a node to the network.
-
-1 ZLD by convention equals to 2<sup>24</sup> (16,777,216) _zents_.
-Thus, the technical capacity of the currency is 549,755,813,888 ZLD (half a trillion).
-
## How to Use
Install Ruby 2.2+, [Rubygems](https://rubygems.org/pages/download), and then run:
```bash
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```
Then, either run it as a node:
```bash
-$ zold start
+$ zold node
```
-Or do one of the following:
-
- * `zold remote` manipulates the list off remote nodes;
- * `zold create` creates a new wallet (you have to provide PGP keys);
- * `zold fetch` downloads all copies of the wallet from the network;
- * `zold merge` merges all copies of the wallet into the local one;
- * `zold pull` first `fetch`, then `merge`;
- * `zold show` prints out all known details of a wallet (incl. its balance);
- * `zold pay` creates a new transaction;
- * `zold push` pushes a wallet to the network.
-
For more options and commands just run:
```bash
$ zold --help
```
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yet, you can run:
```bash
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
```
-
-## Glossary
-
-**Node** is an HTTP server with a RESTful API, a maintainer of wallets
-and a command line Ruby gem [`zold`](https://rubygems.org/gems/zold).
-
-**Network** is a set of all nodes available online.
-
-**Score** is the amount of "hash sufficies" a node has at any given moment of time.
-
-**Wallet** is a text file with a ledger of all transactions inside.
-
-**Transaction** is a money transferring operation between two wallets.
-
-**MSS** (minimum summary score) is a summary of all scores required to trust a wallet.
-
-## Score
-
-Each node calculates its own score. First, it takes the current timestamp
-in UTC [ISO 8601](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601),
-for example `2017-07-19T21:24:51Z ` (with a trailing space). Then, it appends
-its own host name or IP address to it, space, TCP port number, and a space.
-Then, it attempts to append any
-arbitrary text (has to match `[a-zA-Z0-9]+`) to the end of it and to calculate SHA-256 of the text
-in the hexadecimal format, for example:
-
-```
-Input: "2017-07-19T21:24:51Z b1.zold.io 4096 the-suffix"
-SHA-256: "eba36e52e1ee674d198f486e07c8496853ffc8879e7fe25329523177646a96a0"
-```
-
-The node attempts to try different sufficies until one of them produces
-SHA-256 hash that ends with `0000000` (seven zeros). For example, this
-suffix `11edb424c` works (it took 212 minutes to find it on 2.3GHz Intel Core i7):
-
-```
-Input: "2017-07-19T21:24:51Z b1.zold.io 4096 11edb424c"
-SHA-256: "34f48e0eee1ed12ad74cb39418f2f6e7442a776a7b6182697957650e00000000"
-```
-
-When the first suffix is found, the score of the node is 1. Then, to
-increase the score by one, the node has to find the next suffix, which
-can be added to the first 20 characters of the previous hash
-in order to obtain a new hash with trailing zeros, for example:
-
-```
-Input: "34f48e0eee1ed12ad74c "
-SHA-256: "..."
-```
-
-And so on.
-
-The score is valid only when the starting time point is earlier than
-current time, but not earlier than 24 hours ago.
## Operations
### Remote