How Do I Reproduce the Bitcoin System?

[The Core]

I'm good with Linux and a few languages. I get the way BTC works, but I'd like to re-create it, in full. I'm not trying to hack the BTC network (I don't believe that's possible). I am actually just interested in creating a new network that will create a finite supply of something that acts like a currency -- not a whole lot different from what NameCoin is doing.

Where do I even begin to start doing that? Are there libraries containing the code?

Thanks in advance.

Nik

[Graet]

too late
ixcoin, iocoin, solidcoin, faicoin, ioucoin.......and i'm sure some i forgot or havent seen yet

everything is available to start new *coins via git etc
bit pointless imo, and lots of ppl got caught already with "coin of the day" when it was replaced with next "coin if the day"

[Splirow]

What for? You cant reinvent the wheel. Especially after 4 wheels......lol

[PiGames]

Maybe he's not trying to fork to a new coin like i0 or solid or whatever that shitty first one was, but rather make something unique like namecoin did.

Regardless of intention. The source in on github I believe. Should be a sticky somewhere on the dev page.

[megabytes]

The source in on github I believe.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

Though http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/ may be of more use for learning purposes.