Paying attention to our progress is one of the biggest contributions you can make. Consider joining the conversation within one of the Canada eCoin community channels and/or share a link to ecoincore.com or communitycoins.org on your favorite social sharing platform with the hashtag #eCoinCore or #Rooty.
Community based coins are a special class of cryptocoins that are/should be driven by a community and are typical grassroots organizations, as opposed to centralized ICO's and institutional initiatives.
Consider purchasing some community currencies with the intent to hold on to them until they are worth 1000 times your purchase price. Purchasing community coins and keeping them off the market will allow our communities to establish solid roots and potentially become a solid soverign wealth fund for you and your peers. This is not investment advice, rather it is a call for your participation. Your purchase with as little as a few dollars gets you involved and goes a long way to ensure our missions get completed successfully.
https://communitycoins.org
The AtomicDEX software defined exchange is the recommended exchange to buy/sell community coins using BTC, LTC, DOGE, KMD and/or any other supported cryptocurrency. Reconsider your useage of centralized exchanges, AtomicDEX is the CEX destroyer and a perminent solution to peer-to-peer+cross-chain exchange.
As peer based communities, we recognize the role a central exchanges play in our space. They are available to convert fiat to crypto and that is all. Once within the p2p crypto-sphere, a user shall be able to operate safely without the need for any centralized custodians.
Read more about the custodian in our Custodial Awareness Initiative
https://komodian.org/products/atomicdex-desktop-ce/
Maybe you are in a position to offer some coding skills to the pot? The following lists explain both what we are doing as well as how we are doing it. Take a peek and see if anything listed is a part of your skill set. Other areas of focus we need help with would include organizing peer reviews, marketing, graphic design (obviously, :P) and any other 'applicable to all' business functions. If you decide to participate, find your way to our Keybase, Matrix or Discord channels and/or reach out to koad.
Below is a list of components that together make up the eCoinCore stack and it's related subset of tools.
| name | description | status |
|---|---|---|
| eCoinCore CacheBox | Subscribes to blockchain related data to watch for transactions related to specified wallet addresses. No private keys on board, this daemon is a watcher that sends notifications when events are witnessed. Hard caches previous lookups as well as serves transaction and address data to other eCoinCore apps including the mobile wallet. Makes available an API for serving SPV service details, blockchain data, exchange rates and blockchain configuration details. | help-wanted |
| eCoinCore Lighthouse | Listens for blockchain events from daemon processes. Runs on each machine that also runs blockchain daemon processes. Can be used to install manage daemons and report data directly to the database or through another lighthouse or cachebox. | help-wanted |
| eCoinCore electrum monitor/worker | Keeps a running inventory of SPV services found in source code and in the wild. Periodically tests and evaluates each known SPV server and keeps a running score of availability for each known electrum server and reports this information to a lighthouse or directly into the database. | help-wanted |
| eCoinCore Mobile Experience | A simple mobile wallet build using react native for using cryptocurrencies on the go. Can be used as a standalone app or connected to your personal CacheBox to use as a proxy to electrum and daemon services, to limit privacy loss and to enable networks on the fly using eCoinCore's configuration management. | help-wanted |
| eCoinCore Paper | A simple paper wallet generator and mnemonic creator. Based on Ian Coleman's bip39 mnemonic code converter, this paper wallet lets you customize the look and feel of the documents. It has several example presets for creating and managing your paper asset portfolio. It creates vouchers that can be funded using eCoinCore through bluetooth, this software is designed to run offline only on an air-gapped raspberry pi or similar device and dedicated offline-only printer. Generating paper wallets and high definition mnemonics for the supremely paranoid; It's the only way you can sleep at night. | help-wanted |
| eCoinCore PWA | A complete UI for searching through and monitoring blockchain data. Shown as `live demo` on eCoinCore website. Observe the blockchains as they grow, the UI asks the lighthouse for interesting data showing the current state of a blockchain network. | help-wanted |
| eCoinCore Desktop | The eCoinCore PWA wrapped into a desktop app that can also deploy and manage the eCoinCore lighthouse and CacheBoxes installed on your devices either remotely or locally. A single application that can spawn the rest, including blockchain networks and electrum servers. This is a one click installer for a plethora of blockchain related software applications. Usually installed on only 1 device, it serves PWA access to any PC connected within a private VPN/zero-tier network. Can be served to the internet via nginx or apache reverse proxy. | help-wanted |
| eCoinCore Documentation | Showing users not only how install and navigate eCoinCore's feature set but also how to use eCoinCore's component pieces to build and manage UTXO based decentralized applications. Shows a developer how to create blockchain based applications and take advantage of both parallel economic benefit. | help-wanted |
Many cooperative components are used as dependencies in the creation of eCoinCore. Below is a list of these components. If you are familiar (or a master) in any one of these please consider offering a helping hand to the project. The following are all included in the base eCoinCore stack and are available out of the box in nodejs and within the browser for easy rapid prototyping of future community use-cases; what an exciting time to be alive!
This list doesnt include the blockchain networks or lower level components like nodejs or javascript, those are implied.
| name | description | links | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| koad:io | Not actually a dependency of eCoinCore, koad:io is the program that inspired the creation of eCoinCore. koad:io is another program being created by koad, the creator of eCoinCore. eCoinCore is a compatible plugin of koad:io. Not important, but should be mentioned. |
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| Meteor JS | Meteor is an open source platform for seamlessly building and deploying Web, Mobile, and Desktop applications in Javascript and is used to compile the eCoinCore components. Meteor, and therefore eCoinCore, lets you use popular frameworks and tools right out-of-the-box including react, vue, apollo, svelte, typescript, blaze, tailwind, chakra ui and solid. Focus on building features instead of configuring disparate components yourself. |
docs |
help-wanted |
| Electron JS | Electron is used to bring the most feature-full version of eCoinCore to the desktop computer. It wraps many eCoinCore components and serves it up as a desktop application. Electron also brings more user-land controls to the user's desktop PC. | help-wanted |
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| Meteor DDP | Meteor's DDP is a websocket layer that automatically brings standard authentication and publish/subscribe and keeps an up-to-date minimongo instance within the browser. |
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help-wanted |
| Mongo and MiniMongo | MongoDB on the server, MiniMongo within the client. The database state of the client is being controlled by the DDP websocket. Whatever changes on the server will also be synced to the client and the client will redraw the parts of the DOM that have changed as a result. |
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help-wanted |
| Iron Router | As a long time Meteor user, Iron Router is an essential meteor package that is used to route with an eCoinCore or Meteor program. It is used to send data to a template based on the current location on a webapp and manages DDP subscriptions to mongodb collections. |
docs |
help-wanted |
| electrum-client-js | This library is used to communicate with the ElectrumX Server on tcp, ssl, ws and wss protocols within nodejs and the browser. | help-wanted |
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| bitcoinjs-lib | A javascript Bitcoin library for node.js and browsers. It brings forward many of the following dependances. |
docs repo |
help-wanted |
| bech32 | A BIP173/BIP350 compatible Bech32/Bech32m encoding/decoding library. |
repo |
help-wanted |
| bip174 | A BIP174 compatible partial Transaction encoding library. This allows eCoinCore to create partly signed transactions from a keyless portion of eCoinCore and have them ready for another eCoinCore app (normally the mobile experience) to sign and broadcast it. |
repo |
help-wanted |
| bs58check | A straight forward implementation of base58check extending upon bs58. |
repo |
help-wanted |
| create-hash | Node style hashes for use in the browser, with native hash functions in node. |
repo |
help-wanted |
| ripemd160 | Node style ripemd160 on pure JavaScript. |
repo |
help-wanted |
| varuint-bitcoin | encode/decode number as bitcoin variable length integer. |
repo |
help-wanted |
| wif | Bitcoin Wallet Import Format encoding/decoding module. |
repo |
help-wanted |
| iancoleman/bip39 | Used as inspiration and as a starting point for the eCoinCore paper asset generator. |
repo |
help-wanted |
| Material for MkDocs | Material for MkDocs allows for easy writing of documentation in Markdown to create a professional static site in minutes – searchable, customizable, for all devices. |
docs repo |
help-wanted |
| AtomicDEX | AtomicDEX is a multi-coin wallet, bridge, and DEX rolled into one app. Manage your crypto without limitations. AtomicDEX facilitates cross chain atomic swaps across dozens of blockchains. It is used within eCoinCore and koad:io to manage multi-chain write capabilities and related transaction fees. AtomicDEX is also the only exchange where you can purchase Canada eCoin using dozens of other cryptocurrencies such as KMD, DOGE, LTC and BTC. | help-wanted |
Some extra projects that play well with an eCoinCore stack and are heavily used by koad and the Canada eCoin Community.
| name | description | links | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandstorm | Sandstorm is an isolation camp for baddly written code. Using vagrant and debian virtual machines, sandstorm can produce an environment where code can be ran in isolation without needing to trust it; and therefor not having to trust the asshole who sent/recommended it to you. Although not used by eCoinCore, Sandstorm is used within a koad:io environment and can use eCoinCore as a method of accessing on-chain datasets. (help: see note within Matrix description.) |
docs |
help-wanted |
| Keybase | Keybase is end-to-end encryption for things that matter.. Keybase is secure messaging, file-sharing and git. Keybase is also heavily used otherwise within the Canada eCoin community and development team as a method of social verification of it's membership. The community's trust of itself is based on publishing and verifying social proofs. Keybase is used as our `phonebook` you could say; except instead of phone numbers Keybase manages public keys and social graphs. The keybase client is open-sourced. (help: The keybase server needs to be re-created to work on-chain, then we can obsolete the cooperate entity known as keybase/zoom.) |
docs |
help-wanted |
| Matrix | An open network protocol for secure, decentralized communication. Matrix is used to spawn channels for various purposes. Mainly used by human users for chatting, Matrix channels allow of many types of communication techniques that can be used by users as well as programs. (help: One of our goals is also to use Sandstorm as a matrix integrations manager, allowing an entry point and authentication mechanism for serving sandstorm grains.) |
docs |
help-wanted |