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IOTA Message Sender with local POW

Proof of concept application using IOTA Tangle to send messages and tokens. It's simply the IOTA Leaderboard Example https://github.com/domschiener/leaderboard-example with some modifications. It has to be used in pair with IOTA Message Receiver

Differences with respect to IOTA Leaderboard Example

• Proof Of Work is perfomed locally. Usually full nodes forbid POW on their node, so light nodes connected to them can't send messages. In this application light nodes are allowed to send messages by perfoming POW on their node.
• Application runs in Electron, the same framework used by the official IOTA Wallet
• 0 value transactions are allowed. This is useful if you just want to send a message with no money. It also avoids to change sender address for every message because 0 value transactions are not signed

Prerequisites

1. Download NodeJS

2. Install Electron:

npm install -g electron

3. Install Bower:

npm install -g bower

Windows Users Only

Run the following command as Administrator:

npm install -g --production windows-build-tools

Compiling

If you wish to compile the app, install the following also:

1. Install Electron Builder

Electron Builder is used behind the scenes. Read their instructions on how to set up your system.

2. Install Docker

Instructions

1. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/alero3/IotaMessageSender

2. Go to the IotaMessageSender directory:

cd IotaMessageSender

3. Install components

npm install

4. Run the app:

npm start

5. If you wish to compile the app:

npm run compile

If you'd like to create a package only for a specific OS, you can do so like this:

npm run compile:win
npm run compile:mac
npm run compile:lin

Compiled binaries are found in the out directory.

Notes

Default full node used by this application is 88.198.230.98. You can change it in init.js, line 11-12.