Scorex - Lagonaki Release

At the moment it's the buggy as hell pre-release version! Anyway, I would be happy to invite early birds to play with the Scorex and submit any bugs if found.

Motivation

There are two huge problems around cryptocurrencies development project Scorex aims to weaken:

Bitcoin source code contains more 100K lines of code(80K of C++ only), Nxt is about more than 45K line of Java code. All parts of the design(network/transactions/consensus layers) are mixed in a hard way. So researchers & developers are not in good start positions to make experiments.

In opposite, Scorex is less than 4K of Scala code. Transactions layer is as simple as that. Consensus algo could be switched easily(with two consensus algos out of the box, one could be replaced with an another with just one line of code edited!)

Major coins forks are trying to make IPO immediately, often having just one or two pretty controversial feature. Scorex is intentionally not production-ready, so please participate in experiments built on top of it, but don't buy tokens unless you are 100% sure what are you doing.

Features

Compact, functional, actors-powered code
Two 100% Proof-of-Stake consensus algos out of the box, Nxt-like and Qora-like. One algo could be replaced with an another with just one line of code edited (in Constants.scala)
Simplest transactions model
Asynchronous network layer on top of TCP
JSON API
Command line client for the JSON API
Curve25519 for signatures

Installation

Ubuntu Server

Install Oracle Java8 JDK:

echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys EEA14886

apt-get update

apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

and agree with license terms

Install SBT(Scala Build Tool):

echo "deb http://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sbt.list apt-get update apt-get install sbt

Run

Run start.sh script to connect to the network, but network is down now :)

You can edit folders / other settings in settings.json file before running ./start.sh.

Another option is to run one or two peers on the local machine:

run ./recompile.sh to (re-)build .jar file
run ./start-local1.sh to run first local peer binded to 127.0.0.1:9084 . Edit settings in settings-local1.json if needed
run ./start-local2.sh to run second local peer binded to 127.0.0.2:9084 . Edit settings in settings-local2.json if needed
You can run both peers simultaneously by running ./start-local.sh

Current Limitations

todo: current glitches / limitations list

Contributions

Contributions are welcome!

API

Access API in a browser (e.g. http://localhost:9085/addresses/ ) or CURL or with the command line client (GET addresses/)

/addresses - info about wallet's accounts and different utilitary calls about addresses

/addresses/ - get wallet addresses
/addresses/validate/{address} - check whether address {address} is valid or not
/addresses/seed/{address} - export seed value for the {address}
/addresses/new - create new address in the local wallet

todo: finish API description

CharlesHoskinson/Scorex-Lagonaki