Given the state of the world, and the growing reliance on increasingly massive hosting providers like Azure, GCP, and the iron (silicon?) fist of AWS, it's becoming harder to trust that critical infrastructure will always remain "up", and more importantly safe.
If AWS goes out or their core infrastructure gets compromised, virtually half the internet could go out with it! And you can't really rely on Google, they are constantly deprecating projects for no good reason besides moving you to the next replacement app. So if you really want your site's data to remain both off premesis (i.e. not on a random HDD you have attached to a Raspberry Pi) and accessible to those consuming your content, you need something distributed, accessible, and safe.
That's where Kevacoin comes in!
For a deep dive, I recommend checking out the official webstite, but in a nutshell, Kevacoin is much more than just another dime-a-dozen Bitcoin clone or meme coin that retail investors "HODL" and claim will go "to the moon!" if you wait long enough. It takes the years of work done in the blockchain/crypto sphere, boils it down to a few easy commands, and makes it accessible to virtually anyone with a computer and some time.
While Kevacoin is relatively simple to consume as a user (using pre-created tools from the developers), it wasn't so easy as a developer to get started. These days, if your service doesn't have a library written for it in some popular web-connected language (i.e. JS, Python, Go...) then mass adoption is extremely difficult. This library aims to fix that!
With an easy to use KevaClient class, you just point it at a running instance of kevacoind (more on this later) along with a username and password, and you're set!
- A Linux environment (Windows/macOS testers needed!)
- NodeJS v10+ (ideally v15.14.0 or latest) + a JS package manager (yarn/npm) installed and on your $PATH
- A relatively fast CPU for running the daemon to connect to the Kevacoin chain
- Create or navigate to a node project you'd like to connect to Keva (to init: run
npm initoryarn initin an empty directory) - Run
yarn add @dukeferdinand/kevacoin-jsornpm install --save @dukeferdinand/kevacoin-jsto add this project to yours
- To be continued...
- Everything from the getting started section
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yarnpackage manager - Git + a GitHub account
- Some kevacoin to seed your test wallet in your development environment (you can mine this overnight and you should have a good amount in the morning if you don't trust exchanges)
- Clone this repo +
yarn install - Add your method(s) to the
KevaClientif related to JSON-RPC commands, otherwise use your judgement (it will all be reviewed in the end!)
- To be continued...
The best way to support this project is by shipping code and making PRs for new features. Even if if that just means writing example code, every little bit helps!
That's okay! You can still help Kevacoin as a whole by either mining Kevacoin (mining supports the infrastructure by lending us your hash power to keep the data flowing), or by promoting Kevacoin to everyone you know!
That's appreciated too, but make sure you consider the other options as those help more than just me ;)
- KEVA (Kevacoin) address -
VZ1W7FD4biBuaDQvPdLLQkyJm6KhjL7iGa - RVN (Ravencoin) address -
RVn2WxQdnMZw5SR31ehUHPLDMDrG3bhPV9 - DOGE (Dogecoin) address -
DFBQjyivrpmeCPJoP26PRhGX4FLJQEGALJ