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Excellent work on your Cookbook! It works indeed out of the box and I have successfully installed Darkcoin and Litecoin with it to test it out.

Now here some ideas that may expand this cookbook further. I may do some of these if this cookbook is still maintained.

Custom Coin Config

Instead of passing a predefined hash to the configuration file, allow a user to pass a array of hashes and further define the configuration. I am suggesting this since I had no way to create a testnet only configuration out of the box.

Change startup behavior

Instead of forcing upstart to it, allow a user to supply a custom init script or template to run a system specific startup process. This would help to spread this cookbook into other systems than Ubuntu (since Debian works just as well).

Do not link the source compiled binary

Instead of linking the compiled binary into the home folder, I would rather copy it entirely. Not sure if that's necessary but having the actual used binary linked against the one on the source tree, which could be upgraded by changing the Git checkout and triggering a new compile, seems unsafe.