go version >= 1.14
make will install the cli under bin/kadbox.
You can also install it into your GOPATH by navigating into cmd/kadbox and go install.
Before starting the server you need to initialize a directory as your home directory. Navigate to any directory and initialize it
with kadbox init. You can conveniently initialize our machines $HOME directory with
kadobx init -g. Initializing will create a public and private keypair and will assign you a unique identity.
In the same directory you initialized OR any subdirectory you may run kadbox server start.
The node attempts to connect to bootstrap peers and join the network.
What are bootstrap peers? These are pre configured nodes assisting new peers when they join the network. They provide the joining peer with the contact information of its closest neighbors and inform them about the joining node. Currently, a bootstrap peer also acts as a circuit relay in case two given peers can't connect directly to each other due to NATs and firewalls.
The list of bootstrap peers can be found in home/.kadbox/kadconfig. You can actually run your own server as a bootstrap peer by running kadbox server start -g. The -g flag will configure the server as a bootstap peer.
You can share a file in the network with kadbox add <path to file>. You must be in your initialized home directory or any sub directory of it.
You know it worked if the command spits out an identifier like kadbox://<hash_of_content>. You can share this identifier with anyone that wants to download
your content directly from your machine.
Content can be downloaded using kadbox get <identifier>.
Currently, it will write the content to your pwd.
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