Bitcoin 0.7.99 BETA Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Bitcoin Developers Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/). This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com). Intro ----- Bitcoin is a free open source peer-to-peer electronic cash system that is completely decentralized, without the need for a central server or trusted parties. Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact directly with each other, with the help of a P2P network to check for double-spending. Setup ----- Unpack the files into a directory and run bitcoin-qt.exe. If you have Microsoft Security Essentials, you need to add bitcoin.exe to its "Excluded processes" list. Microsoft Security Essentials->Settings tab, select Excluded processes, press Add, select bitcoin.exe, OK, Save changes. The software automatically finds other nodes to connect to. You can enable Universal Plug and Play using a menu entry or set your firewall to forward port 8333 (TCP) to your computer so you can receive incoming connections. Bitcoin works without incoming connections, but allowing incoming connections helps the Bitcoin network. See the bitcoin wiki at: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page for more help and information.