infnotechain

README

Infnote Chain

Installation

Get the repo and build:

go get -u github.com/Infnote/infnotechain
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/Infnote/infnotechain
go build -o /usr/local/bin/ifc ./

ifc run

Don't forget to set GOPATH correctly and add /usr/local/bin to your PATH variable

How to Use

• ifc run -f run the program at foreground
• ifc run -d run the program with debug level log
• ifc stop stop the background process
• ifc eject eject config file to /usr/local/etc/infnote/config.yaml
• ifc cli run an interactive command line tool

TODO:

• Communication starts with "Sync" message which will be responded an "Info"
• Dangled block error trigger "Sync"
• Writing test
• Check if peer connection is still alive by send a info
• Respond 'Error' when cannot respond correctly
• Blocks request strategy
• Refresh connections strategy
• Peers updating strategy
  • Validate peer address
  • Ranking peers
  • Filter invalid peers received from outside
  • Check address equivalence then repleace the old one
• Clean boardcast id regularly
• Need some kind of authorization before boardcast
• Ranking strategy
  • Bad chain detection
  • Bad peer detection
  • Peer responding speed
  • Peer stability

Maybe TODO:

• Adjust connections graph automatically