\[Kickstart\] Link - The File Sharing Blockchain Protocol
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[quote name=“mnstrcck” post=“43957” timestamp=“1386972619”]
Kevlar,This was on my mind for a few days, so I went ahead and did it anyway:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/1dyGYYd.jpg[/img]
[/quote]I REALLY like the imagery!!! +1 rep good sir.
What does everyone else think? Let’s here some other opinions!
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Go home, Stevenrm87. You are drunk. ::)
So… guess what’s not confirming.
Yep. The 0 fee transaction. Totally expected. It’s got a ton of dust outputs, and no fee. So, tonight I’ll try it with 0.1 fee, just to be sure it’s working, then we can try stepping down the fee and seeing what will confirm and what won’t.
I’ve been thinking about reading. It’s a MUCH harder problem. Publishing was easy. Reading requires parsing the blockchain itself, and creating a database of all the metadata in there so it can be indexed and searched by the user. This makes me think that in the future, people will bootstrap the Link index for a coin, the same way they bootstrap the blockchain download: By providing a torrent of the data up to a certain point.
Anyone know a good way to read the blockchain off the disk in LevelDB format?
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“44075” timestamp=“1386992936”]
So… guess what’s not confirming.
[/quote][img width=250]http://static.businessinsider.com/image/5267eb396bb3f7193e45272f/image.jpg[/img]?
Update 1/29/14 : Well, now this joke makes no sense … they actually confirmed her! :-\
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I just parsed Link data out of the Blockchain itself. Swear to Bob.
[code]
[ ‘6khUSbZaZyRXA4Lg5GUpFFaaJXV6vHkTN8’,
‘6onH4FjBPBLAMXZqyKQY42zsnBnckNqN8T’,
‘6ngim5JtHcgEFyWVSEstHa7rshN9pXNxCB’,
‘6ixqm7eZH4g8vzLUYc31RgChwYgenYUJ8h’,
‘6jg2cbGPw3yPsPqNQpnyxnsN9fumLejywd’,
‘6pn8YEJTwePT3J5iofQnRmRjXkqWretPr6’,
‘6i8GAByMnmLChsBc91S3dSHKA97suZciZL’,
‘6og7cCTAAd6Km64FaNY5rVBYvsJrTeTYHc’,
‘6ncjmPxRb64BAbqBH3wRnfmtM3zShZrpiQ’,
‘6poGU825xGSy7amhadak4CXhti2USisDC8’,
‘6iJwWFDKREpvf1HCTduKbU4RQwA3h2BEJX’,
‘6oFSCqxHJibEXUHf8YqpPp7E5QdNGvornG’,
‘6pAXJRV5CWGUeWgdA3bgp2yTxRYVh1vzc8’,
‘6ocoGyQyzB8BRoP8WV9AbVsHggekeDrVNF’,
‘6oweXpZ6cbRoM6fueEPPWpArua5G1yZXb2’ ]
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magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fbab636f9c91fb58038055dfce83cd8099a7366e&dn=TPB+AFK%3A+The+Pirate+Bay+Away+from+Keyboard+%282013%29+720p+h264+581m
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (2013) 720p h264 581m
TPB AFK,The Pirate Bay,Away From Keyboard,Simon Klose,Documentary,720p
[/code]That look familiar Tuck?
It’s using the QT client as it’s source for the Blockchain. You have to do a little configuring and reindexing of your QT client, but it’s a one time operation and didn’t take more than 20 minutes to reindex everything on disk.
And with that, Phase 1 is COMPLETE.
It’s official: Link is alive. Code is WORKING!
Here’s what we have so far:
Link protocol encoding for all data and meta-data types
Automatic posting of Link transactions to your blockchain of choice via your QT wallet (you’ll need funds in your wallet)
Link protocol decoding for all data and meta-data types
Automatic scanning of your blockchain of choice via your QT wallet for Link protocol data.
Unit tests to demonstrate round trip publishing, and subsequent reading.And so begins Phase 2.
The goal of Phase 2 is to provide a user interface for the above functionality, specifically publishing and searching.
The publish mechanism should allow you to enter in any or all of the data and meta-data fields, and spend the transaction on your behalf. For now we’re going to stick to magnet links, but later versions can do whole files.
The searching should contain a persistent disk based index of previously scanned Link data, so that upon startup it will only need to scan what it hasn’t seen before. Fortunately this seems to be pretty quick with small blockchains like Feathercoins. I can’t immagine Bitcoin is going to be as fast, but you can take shortcuts like say, “Well, there’s no data before block X, so we’ll just skip everything before X.” which can make it feasible. It should allow the user to search any of the meta-data, and execute any payloads chosen by the user.
This interface will be a web based interface, but you will run it locally so it can talk to your client. It will require a little bit of manual installation steps, but nothing that can’t be distilled into a README and performed by well trained monkeys like Tuck here (I bro-love you man).
After that, Phase 3 can begin, but I won’t reveal what’s in store for that just yet.
I’ll keep you posted. :)
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“43967” timestamp=“1386974092”]
[quote author=mnstrcck link=topic=5663.msg43957#msg43957 date=1386972619]
Kevlar,This was on my mind for a few days, so I went ahead and did it anyway:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/1dyGYYd.jpg[/img]
[/quote]I REALLY like the imagery!!! +1 rep good sir.
What does everyone else think? Let’s here some other opinions!
[/quote]I think this has all atributes of good logo. Clean, simple, with good idea…
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“44122” timestamp=“1387003345”]
I just parsed Link data out of the Blockchain itself. Swear to Bob.[code]magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fbab636f9c91fb58038055dfce83cd8099a7366e&dn=TPB+AFK%3A+The+Pirate+Bay+Away+from+Keyboard+%282013%29+720p+h264+581m
[/code]
That look familiar Tuck?
It’s official: Link is alive. Code is WORKING!
[/quote]Sweet, nice job!
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=5663.msg44122#msg44122 date=1387003345]
It will require a little bit of manual installation steps, but nothing that can’t be distilled into a README and performed by well trained monkeys like Tuck here (I bro-love you man).
[/quote][img height=150]http://replygif.net/i/159.gif[/img]
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[quote name=“mnstrcck” post=“43957” timestamp=“1386972619”]
Kevlar,This was on my mind for a few days, so I went ahead and did it anyway:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/1dyGYYd.jpg[/img]
[/quote]The more I look at it, the more I love it. Can I get the psd/ai? And any chance iawgoM might work his magic using it in conjunction with the block-chain? Because I can’t get enough of that either, so I’m hoping this will be a whoops your peanut butter just got all over my chocolate moment.
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Great news… the test with 0.1 fee confirmed within a minute.
[url=http://explorer.feathercoin.com/tx/db31547ef607484dd58ce76a99f1aa93cb263b5e19e3a247f4de80a84e60c6a8]http://explorer.feathercoin.com/tx/db31547ef607484dd58ce76a99f1aa93cb263b5e19e3a247f4de80a84e60c6a8[/url]
And the decoder sees both now!!!
[code]
C:\Users\TSavo\git\Link\src>coffee linkReadTest.coffee
[ ‘6khUSbZaZyRXA4Lg5GUpFFaaJXV6vHkTN8’,
‘6onH4FjBPBLAMXZqyKQY42zsnBnckNqN8T’,
‘6ngim5JtHcgEFyWVSEstHa7rshN9pXNxCB’,
‘6ixqm7eZH4g8vzLUYc31RgChwYgenYUJ8h’,
‘6jg2cbGPw3yPsPqNQpnyxnsN9fumLejywd’,
‘6pn8YEJTwePT3J5iofQnRmRjXkqWretPr6’,
‘6i8GAByMnmLChsBc91S3dSHKA97suZciZL’,
‘6og7cCTAAd6Km64FaNY5rVBYvsJrTeTYHc’,
‘6ncjmPxRb64BAbqBH3wRnfmtM3zShZrpiQ’,
‘6poGU825xGSy7amhadak4CXhti2USisDC8’,
‘6iJwWFDKREpvf1HCTduKbU4RQwA3h2BEJX’,
‘6oFSCqxHJibEXUHf8YqpPp7E5QdNGvornG’,
‘6pAXJRV5CWGUeWgdA3bgp2yTxRYVh1vzc8’,
‘6ocoGyQyzB8BRoP8WV9AbVsHggekeDrVNF’,
‘6oweXpZ6cbRoM6fueEPPWpArua5G1yZXb2’ ]
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magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fbab636f9c91fb58038055dfce83cd8099a7366e&dn=TPB+AFK%3A+The+P
irate+Bay+Away+from+Keyboard+%282013%29+720p+h264+581m
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (2013) 720p h264 581m
TPB AFK,The Pirate Bay,Away From Keyboard,Simon Klose,Documentary,720p
[ ‘6khUSbZaZyRXA4Lg5GUpFFaaJXV6vHkTN8’,
‘6onH4FjBPBLAMXZqyKQY42zsnBnckNqN8T’,
‘6ngim5JtHcgEFyWVSEstHa7rshN9pXNxCB’,
‘6ixqm7eZH4g8vzLUYc31RgChwYgenYUJ8h’,
‘6jg2cbGPw3yPsPqNQpnyxnsN9fumLejywd’,
‘6pn8YEJTwePT3J5iofQnRmRjXkqWretPr6’,
‘6i8GAByMnmLChsBc91S3dSHKA97suZciZL’,
‘6og7cCTAAd6Km64FaNY5rVBYvsJrTeTYHc’,
‘6ncjmPxRb64BAbqBH3wRnfmtM3zShZrpiQ’,
‘6poGU825xGSy7amhadak4CXhti2USisDC8’,
‘6iJwWFDKREpvf1HCTduKbU4RQwA3h2BEJX’,
‘6oFSCqxHJibEXUHf8YqpPp7E5QdNGvornG’,
‘6pAXJRV5CWGUeWgdA3bgp2yTxRYVh1vzc8’,
‘6ocoGyQyzB8BRoP8WV9AbVsHggekeDrVNF’,
‘6oweXpZ6cbRoM6fueEPPWpArua5G1yZXb2’ ]
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magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fbab636f9c91fb58038055dfce83cd8099a7366e&dn=TPB+AFK%3A+The+P
irate+Bay+Away+from+Keyboard+%282013%29+720p+h264+581m
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (2013) 720p h264 581m
TPB AFK,The Pirate Bay,Away From Keyboard,Simon Klose,Documentary,720p
[/code]Yay! That was too easy. Who’s excited?
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“44141” timestamp=“1387007402”]
Great news… the test with 0.1 fee confirmed within a minute.[url=http://explorer.feathercoin.com/tx/db31547ef607484dd58ce76a99f1aa93cb263b5e19e3a247f4de80a84e60c6a8]http://explorer.feathercoin.com/tx/db31547ef607484dd58ce76a99f1aa93cb263b5e19e3a247f4de80a84e60c6a8[/url]
And the decoder sees both now!!!
[code]
C:\Users\TSavo\git\Link\src>coffee linkReadTest.coffee
[ ‘6khUSbZaZyRXA4Lg5GUpFFaaJXV6vHkTN8’,
‘6onH4FjBPBLAMXZqyKQY42zsnBnckNqN8T’,
‘6ngim5JtHcgEFyWVSEstHa7rshN9pXNxCB’,
‘6ixqm7eZH4g8vzLUYc31RgChwYgenYUJ8h’,
‘6jg2cbGPw3yPsPqNQpnyxnsN9fumLejywd’,
‘6pn8YEJTwePT3J5iofQnRmRjXkqWretPr6’,
‘6i8GAByMnmLChsBc91S3dSHKA97suZciZL’,
‘6og7cCTAAd6Km64FaNY5rVBYvsJrTeTYHc’,
‘6ncjmPxRb64BAbqBH3wRnfmtM3zShZrpiQ’,
‘6poGU825xGSy7amhadak4CXhti2USisDC8’,
‘6iJwWFDKREpvf1HCTduKbU4RQwA3h2BEJX’,
‘6oFSCqxHJibEXUHf8YqpPp7E5QdNGvornG’,
‘6pAXJRV5CWGUeWgdA3bgp2yTxRYVh1vzc8’,
‘6ocoGyQyzB8BRoP8WV9AbVsHggekeDrVNF’,
‘6oweXpZ6cbRoM6fueEPPWpArua5G1yZXb2’ ]
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magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fbab636f9c91fb58038055dfce83cd8099a7366e&dn=TPB+AFK%3A+The+P
irate+Bay+Away+from+Keyboard+%282013%29+720p+h264+581m
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (2013) 720p h264 581m
TPB AFK,The Pirate Bay,Away From Keyboard,Simon Klose,Documentary,720p
[ ‘6khUSbZaZyRXA4Lg5GUpFFaaJXV6vHkTN8’,
‘6onH4FjBPBLAMXZqyKQY42zsnBnckNqN8T’,
‘6ngim5JtHcgEFyWVSEstHa7rshN9pXNxCB’,
‘6ixqm7eZH4g8vzLUYc31RgChwYgenYUJ8h’,
‘6jg2cbGPw3yPsPqNQpnyxnsN9fumLejywd’,
‘6pn8YEJTwePT3J5iofQnRmRjXkqWretPr6’,
‘6i8GAByMnmLChsBc91S3dSHKA97suZciZL’,
‘6og7cCTAAd6Km64FaNY5rVBYvsJrTeTYHc’,
‘6ncjmPxRb64BAbqBH3wRnfmtM3zShZrpiQ’,
‘6poGU825xGSy7amhadak4CXhti2USisDC8’,
‘6iJwWFDKREpvf1HCTduKbU4RQwA3h2BEJX’,
‘6oFSCqxHJibEXUHf8YqpPp7E5QdNGvornG’,
‘6pAXJRV5CWGUeWgdA3bgp2yTxRYVh1vzc8’,
‘6ocoGyQyzB8BRoP8WV9AbVsHggekeDrVNF’,
‘6oweXpZ6cbRoM6fueEPPWpArua5G1yZXb2’ ]
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irate+Bay+Away+from+Keyboard+%282013%29+720p+h264+581m
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (2013) 720p h264 581m
TPB AFK,The Pirate Bay,Away From Keyboard,Simon Klose,Documentary,720p
[/code]Yay! That was too easy. Who’s excited?
[/quote]Make a good API and I can think of a billion uses.
Like Feathercoin supporting domain registration.
All it would need is interpreters of the data.
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“44133” timestamp=“1387005495”]
The more I look at it, the more I love it. Can I get the psd/ai? And any chance iawgoM might work his magic using it in conjunction with the block-chain? Because I can’t get enough of that either, so I’m hoping this will be a whoops your peanut butter just got all over my chocolate moment.
[/quote]Open Source it up: [url=http://ge.tt/5pzFrc91/v/0?c]http://ge.tt/5pzFrc91/v/0?c[/url]
Take it anywhere…
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“44141” timestamp=“1387007402”]
Great news… the test with 0.1 fee confirmed within a minute.Yay! That was too easy. Who’s excited?
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[quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“44162” timestamp=“1387010569”]
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=5663.msg44141#msg44141 date=1387007402]
Great news… the test with 0.1 fee confirmed within a minute.Yay! That was too easy. Who’s excited?
[/quote][img]http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t467/TuckFheman/its-alive-link_zps3b39269f.gif?t=1387010435[/img]
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[quote name=“iawgoM” post=“44171” timestamp=“1387011187”]
Well, here it is again, with “cartoonize the block” requirement + new text logo combined…[img]http://imageshack.com/a/img845/6416/1h0w.jpg[/img] [img]http://imageshack.com/a/img6/4098/nw7s.png[/img]
[/quote]I think it’s brilliant. LOVE it. I can’t thank you enough.
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I love the graphics, just catching up, nice…
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[quote name=“iawgoM” post=“44309” timestamp=“1387035902”]
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=5663.msg44207#msg44207 date=1387014728]
I think it’s brilliant. LOVE it. I can’t thank you enough.
[/quote]Sure you can ::) Glad you like it :)
[img]http://imageshack.com/a/img607/3734/4j8j.jpg[/img]
[/quote]I tried it 3 time, but it keeps saying invalid address. :(
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Kevlar,
Now that you’re on to UI - I’d love to help out.
What I’d need is:
Window Size - if you plan on browser, or browser-window-in something. Good to restrict early on.
Pages - I’m guessing there’d be a Submit - Search - FAQ - About
Fields - For Submit + SearchAnother idea I had - it might be cool to have a entry field that asks for Creative Commons license. Eventually, LINK could also act as a source of CC content. This could get added on to keywords, but in the submit page rest as its own field.
CC licenses utilize a space - so I think we’d have to figure out how to circumvent it?
Ie
CC BY = CC.BY
CC BY-ND = CC.BY-NDThen that gets added to the end of the keyword meta - kitten,surprise,lulz,CC.BY-ND
And when searching - you can search by CC license.
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Kevlar, I have just sent you 102 FTC towards this mind blowing project. Spend it anyway you see fit.
I have been quietly following this from the original thread, learning a bit everyday. Hats off to ALL you guys. This is one way that I as a layman can help.
Absolutely love the logo as well.
Keep up the innative work.
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[quote name=“mnstrcck” post=“44455” timestamp=“1387064208”]
Kevlar,Now that you’re on to UI - I’d love to help out.
What I’d need is:
Window Size - if you plan on browser, or browser-window-in something. Good to restrict early on.
Pages - I’m guessing there’d be a Submit - Search - FAQ - About
Fields - For Submit + Search
[/quote]YES. Please!!! I’d LOVE that.
Window size: 1000px by however tall it needs to be, in standard browser. It’s just a web page.
Pages: You got it. Publish, Search, FAQ, and About. I tend to think ‘tabs’ instead of pages, since it’ll be done using client side templates anyway, so there’s no reason to make the user reload the entire page.
Fields: For publishing, the following fields are supported… and this is what the form should expose:
Payload - text or file attachment
File name - text (only when upload a file, and autopopulated when uploading)
Name - text
Description - text
Keywords - text
URI - text
Creation date - date/time (autopopulated when uploading a file)
Last Modified Date - date/time (autopopulated when uploading a file)
License - text or combo box (YES, LOVE THIS IDEA!!!)Now, as for search? One box. The rest should be results. One box can search all fields, and later we can talk about advanced search.
[quote]
Another idea I had - it might be cool to have a entry field that asks for Creative Commons license. Eventually, LINK could also act as a source of CC content. This could get added on to keywords, but in the submit page rest as its own field.CC licenses utilize a space - so I think we’d have to figure out how to circumvent it?
[/quote]Nope, we can accomidate the space just fine in the license payload.
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And when searching - you can search by CC license.
[/quote]Yes. I’m adding it to the encoder/decoder and spec now.
I’ve been trying to get LevelDB working in Node all day. I’ve got it persisting decoded link sequences, but searching is proving to be a challenge. But once the search is working, it’ll be UI time real fast here. I expect to have it done by tomorrow, after which time I’ll start working on the Web API calls for the interface, while mnstrcck get’s some of the front end figured out (YAY!!!).
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[quote name=“BikerGSX” post=“44495” timestamp=“1387084560”]
Kevlar, I have just sent you 102 FTC towards this mind blowing project. Spend it anyway you see fit.I have been quietly following this from the original thread, learning a bit everyday. Hats off to ALL you guys. This is one way that I as a layman can help.
Absolutely love the logo as well.
Keep up the inactive work.
[/quote]Your contribution is greatly appreciated, and keeps me working at this full speed ahead. ALL of you are to be commended for supporting me and the rest of the team on this effort. Your donations are what’s making this possible.
I can’t say enough good things about you all. Everyone who has stepped up to the plate has done so because they believe in the project and want to see it advance, and as a result of their support, it’s advancing VERY rapidly. Due to the massive support, right now this project has a LOT of momentum. If this speed keeps up, I’ll have something to put in all your stockings for Christmas. NO PROMISES, but it’s a good goal to work towards. Anyone who donated deserves a great big thank you from everyone who cares about this project.
When I’m ready, hopefully by Christmas, the client will be bundled up and will be sent ONLY to those who have donated, and support will be offered ONLY to contributors. This is how we will beta test, so if you want in on the beta test, now is the time to donate. The entire project is open source, so if you don’t want to donate, and you’re good with getting your hands dirty you can beta test that way, but early donators will have my support and my early releases of the client before it’s made available to the rest of the world.
In addition another round of fund raising will be proposed in order to meet additional feature milestones, but this time there will be tiered donation levels, and tiered rewards. Even if we get no more donations, I promise I’ll have for you a basic publish and search client that supports all of the data and meta-data spec.
If you have contributed prior to the second fund raising campaign, you will be considered a top-tier contributor NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU’VE DONATED. Even 1 FTC. You will also receive an exclusive early-adopter reward which will be unavailable at ANY price. So if you’ve donated, you’re in the exclusive club, and your early enthusiasm will be rewarded. If you wait, you can still get in on the beta test, but you will not be listed as a early supporter and the exclusive reward will not be available to you.
There’s one person who has donated more than anyone else, and that’s Tuck Fheman. He’s the one who made the flippant comment about a blockchain for music and movies that made me think through how to do it. He’s donated FTC, HBN, animated gifs, good questions, he’s even changed his sig to solicit more donations last I checked. There are other signifigant donators, like ZD, iawgoM, and mnstrcck, who have put in more than just coins, and they will be recognized as well. Finally there’s the amazing community that is Feathercoin, and it all will be immortalized in this project by the time I’m done.
Let’s keep this up, because this is working REAL well. :)
