ATTENTION As of now we are not providing you folder "vendor", so server won't build, and nor client. Sorry for the inconvenience, we'll think of something the following week.

CasperAPI provider application.

CasperAPI is a decentralized data storage. We were deeply concerned with the state of the Internet and thought that with the state-of-art decentralized technologies we could at least start changing the way data is stored and distributed right now.

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Building from source
    • Debian-based
• Getting started
• Special thanks
• License

Installation

You can download and use pre-built binaries (download them here). If there's none for your OS or you want to build everything from scratch please use the instruction below. For instructions on how to run your own node see Getting started.

Building from source

Debian-based linux

Prerequisites

For the build process you'll need Go 1.9.2 or higher. We also assume that you already exported $GOROOT and $GOPATH variables and have $GOROOT/bin exported to your $PATH environment variable.

apt-get install build-essential \
	software-properties-common \
	g++ \
	gcc \
	cmake \
	libboost-all-dev \
	git \
	libz3-dev
apt-get update

Installation

Get dependencies and Casper-server via go get

go get -v -u -d github.com/Casper-dev/Casper-server
Install casper-server
```bash
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/Casper-dev/Casper-server/cmd/ipfs
go install

Now you got casper-server named ipfs at $GOPATH/bin

cd $GOPATH/bin
file ipfs

Getting started

Provider mostly just serves incoming connections from client, so you only need to run it. If you are using a pre-built ipfs binary, you need to unpack it (default on Windows; on Linux use tar xvf ), place contents somewhere in the system and then open a terminal(or PowerShell) near and run

./ipfs init 	 			# this will instantiate an id and a repo that provider will use
./ipfs daemon	 			# runs ipfs daemon that will serve incoming commands
# or you can use
./ipfs daemon --init=true # runs ipfs daemon even without previous ipfs init; will make an id and a repo if there's none already instanced

If you built binaries yourself then look for them in $GOPATH/bin.

Current issues

As of now, works only with open IP addresses and requires own INFURA Ropsten test network ethereum wallet and some ETH on it for now works on fast private blockchain.

Special thanks

We really appreciate all the work that IPFS team done to the moment. Guys - you rock!

License

Proprietary