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What is Particl?
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An open source, decentralized privacy platform
built for global person to person eCommerce.

For more information, as well as an immediately usable, binary version of
the Particl Core software, see https://particl.io.

Particl is a decentralized, open source privacy platform for trading goods and services without intermediaries. The ecosystem currently includes the digital currency PART and the Particl Marketplace application.

PART is the cryptocurrency of the Particl blockchain. It is an independent usable secure and confidential digital currency specifically designed to power a marketplace and acts as its settlement layer. It uses several security, encryption, and privacy protocols to make sure no personal information and data can be collected when transacting on the marketplace.

|Properties|Values|
|:-------------------------|:-----------------------------------------|
|Native blockchain|Particl|
|Blockchain codebase|Bitcoin (latest)|
|Block Time|120 seconds|
|Block Size|2 MB|
|Consensus Mechanism|Particl Proof-of-Stake (PPoS)|
|Privacy Protocols|Confidential Transactions (CT) and RingCT|
|Bulletproofs|:white_check_mark: yes|
|Stealth Addresses|:white_check_mark: yes|
|Ring Signatures|:white_check_mark: yes|
|Cold Staking|:white_check_mark: yes|
|Segwit|:white_check_mark: yes|
|Lightning Network|:white_check_mark: yes|
|Atomic Swaps|:white_check_mark: yes|

For more information please visit https://particl.io and https://particl.wiki. The Particl Desktop application is available in this repository https://github.com/particl/particl-desktop.

Getting Started
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