diff -uNr a/bitcoin/src/init.cpp b/bitcoin/src/init.cpp
--- a/bitcoin/src/init.cpp ff7009f672bf400a42d1d7afb6e58aaf1c29d9c219fad51c5f17000243a485e92bbb250d3f4bbec3f0717d00fad620c294d537832671f20c0979fb3f1383779b
+++ b/bitcoin/src/init.cpp 29fbb8792c3462ced61b4a0284360122f72c4fef7fb5fb84e5399967ab6474cd83ccf3a60eb3c425e183b1b95fb9ca71fc23bb791316d762034559df293f8bb0
@@ -175,6 +175,8 @@
             "  -debug           \t\t  " + _("Output extra debugging information\n") +
 	    "  -caneat          \t\t  " + _("Permit the use of 'eatblock'\n") +
 	    "  -verifyall       \t\t  " + _("Forbid the skipping of ECDSA signature verification between checkpoints.\n") +
+	    "  -setverstring    \t\t  " + _("Set a custom version string.\n") +
+	    "  -setvernum       \t\t  " + _("Set a custom version number.\n") +
             "  -logtimestamps   \t  "   + _("Prepend debug output with timestamp\n") +
             "  -printtoconsole  \t  "   + _("Send trace/debug info to console instead of debug.log file\n") +
             "  -rpcuser=<user>  \t  "   + _("Username for JSON-RPC connections\n") +
@@ -199,6 +201,16 @@
     fCanEat = GetBoolArg("-caneat");
     fVerifyAll = GetBoolArg("-verifyall");
 
+    if (mapArgs.count("-setverstring"))
+    {
+        CLIENT_NAME = mapArgs["-setverstring"];
+    }
+
+    if (mapArgs.count("-setvernum"))
+    {
+        VERSION = atoi(mapArgs["-setvernum"]);
+    }
+    
     if (fDaemon)
         fServer = true;
     else
diff -uNr a/bitcoin/src/knobs.h b/bitcoin/src/knobs.h
--- a/bitcoin/src/knobs.h false
+++ b/bitcoin/src/knobs.h 9b88b8f60d9a0ae98f9dd148dba06e132b6b1fc199719eacb3270fe6ce2af889422eee62c2cb08c3b93f22069aea880c657e771c4e4b4157a69c321550c8fc73
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#ifndef KNOBS_H
+#define KNOBS_H
+
+#define  DEFAULT_CLIENT_NAME       "therealbitcoin.org"
+#define  DEFAULT_CLIENT_VERSION    99999 /* 50400 */
+
+#endif
diff -uNr a/bitcoin/src/makefile.unix b/bitcoin/src/makefile.unix
--- a/bitcoin/src/makefile.unix 929157d5e139336f38e98555f14fc125c4217c23eba941086b648147e39fcec9ecab632567fc3295e58826fedf6239d5cc0cd028f4e78fd56ae868b795d2de02
+++ b/bitcoin/src/makefile.unix 09ac104678a444430d3ef0bdf6dbd07d875666493b2d938ac6aa7fb67abe840f2254f517055f4b5f90d0e86c83ee3dade77a58f1c37b7ab7b4c13598a5559adc
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
     init.h \
     key.h \
     keystore.h \
+    knobs.h \
     main.h \
     net.h \
     noui.h \
diff -uNr a/bitcoin/src/net.h b/bitcoin/src/net.h
--- a/bitcoin/src/net.h d18800dfc6abc874cf8f8f3fdf9bbfa000b6611760c571ef64089894b3ac92303c8891aff55d66648d6b8c0033bfab31e40aa6562a0bc75e2a9c0950175a733b
+++ b/bitcoin/src/net.h bb842420bcc67752edf8e658524b135f499c5f8676557a6c12f47f204303e34bd73beabdf6e9146ba452947c4e5cd298529969fab90f16942f6bf0c1229f7043
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@
         CAddress addrMe = (fUseProxy || !addrLocalHost.IsRoutable() ? CAddress("0.0.0.0") : addrLocalHost);
         RAND_bytes((unsigned char*)&nLocalHostNonce, sizeof(nLocalHostNonce));
         PushMessage("version", VERSION, nLocalServices, nTime, addrYou, addrMe,
-                    nLocalHostNonce, std::string(pszSubVer), nBestHeight);
+                    nLocalHostNonce, FormatSubVersion(CLIENT_NAME, VERSION), nBestHeight);
     }
 
 
diff -uNr a/bitcoin/src/serialize.h b/bitcoin/src/serialize.h
--- a/bitcoin/src/serialize.h bc602bfbc512259fbb6c01f2c1633ff142966bf0752612e9a488cee8a95da7921b98abe646e2f7002243f1981939372e0b53948646398e40525ed442c377f449
+++ b/bitcoin/src/serialize.h 3b61e200efe4b17a7f5384e13ab2a1a5e0a74fce0a097802d5e32bb5d74f88fa6e018f56c36ca9198d726a3a78168f87a6181d498cb7a388bc1f3adefa7cd93f
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
 
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <limits.h>
+
+#include "knobs.h"
+
 /* This comes from limits.h if it's not defined there set a sane default */
 #ifndef PAGESIZE
 #include <unistd.h>
@@ -41,9 +44,7 @@
 class CAutoFile;
 static const unsigned int MAX_SIZE = 0x02000000;
 
-static const int VERSION = 50400;
-static const char* pszSubVer = "";
-static const bool VERSION_IS_BETA = true;
+static int VERSION = DEFAULT_CLIENT_VERSION;
 
 // Used to bypass the rule against non-const reference to temporary
 // where it makes sense with wrappers such as CFlatData or CTxDB
diff -uNr a/bitcoin/src/util.cpp b/bitcoin/src/util.cpp
--- a/bitcoin/src/util.cpp 3dcfe5f29728dcd34a6dfe23e9cd17e5f4a332a8d2e7444355106c8c63436cf54892424df2018756c2e109463fd87728fc668a5a03914a4aa3f30bb90403b433
+++ b/bitcoin/src/util.cpp 72641fcb9bce1f705246cf52f08b3ece4b8df65e07ca10a32db860d4a120532a911fc62549960ccfdfc020fd1a5ef8baf0fcf181b861e0903c65b044899fc008
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2009-2012 The Bitcoin developers
 // Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying
 // file license.txt or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+#include "knobs.h"
 #include "headers.h"
 #include "strlcpy.h"
 #include <boost/program_options/detail/config_file.hpp>
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@
 bool fNoListen = false;
 bool fLogTimestamps = false;
 
-
+std::string CLIENT_NAME(DEFAULT_CLIENT_NAME);
 
 
 // Workaround for "multiple definition of `_tls_used'"
@@ -889,14 +890,18 @@
 
 string FormatFullVersion()
 {
-    string s = FormatVersion(VERSION) + pszSubVer;
-    if (VERSION_IS_BETA) {
-        s += "-";
-        s += _("beta");
-    }
+    string s = FormatVersion(VERSION);
     return s;
 }
 
+std::string FormatSubVersion(const std::string& name, int nClientVersion)
+{
+    std::ostringstream ss;
+    ss << "/";
+    ss << name << ":" << FormatVersion(nClientVersion);
+    ss << "/";
+    return ss.str();
+}
 
 
 
diff -uNr a/bitcoin/src/util.h b/bitcoin/src/util.h
--- a/bitcoin/src/util.h 44bd62e864ed9400105aeea2e2ef6499f971577fd28b9c8dc52ef72dcdb4d4928168037cd7d7fca718e5d5a2d4d7c19c65f5b45c87d814d6e24c0d014b307477
+++ b/bitcoin/src/util.h d7e407108638c11f75b5bed04dc455ac78a96debc0776cd0e71871001c5886fd1472ae060e7a2334fcf3e323b7ad0a1b4fb68757392cc45a1b09721eb67415d1
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
 extern std::string strMiscWarning;
 extern bool fNoListen;
 extern bool fLogTimestamps;
+extern std::string CLIENT_NAME;
 
 void RandAddSeed();
 void RandAddSeedPerfmon();
@@ -161,6 +162,7 @@
 int64 GetAdjustedTime();
 void AddTimeData(unsigned int ip, int64 nTime);
 std::string FormatFullVersion();
+std::string FormatSubVersion(const std::string& name, int nClientVersion);