zhengqiwen / wificoin-node

A Wificoin full node for building applications and services with Node.js.

Wificoin Node

A Wificoin full node for building applications and services with Node.js. A node is extensible and can be configured to run additional services. At the minimum a node has an interface to Wificoind for more advanced address queries. Additional services can be enabled to make a node more useful such as exposing new APIs, running a block explorer and wallet service.

Install

git clone https://github.com/KunTengRom/wificoin-node.git
cd wificoin-node
npm install
node app.js start
or
pm2 --name "wificoin-node" start app.js -- start

Note: For your convenience, we distribute wificoind binaries for x86_64 Linux and x86_64 Mac OS X.

Prerequisites

• GNU/Linux x86_32/x86_64, or OSX 64bit (for wificoind distributed binaries)
• Node.js v0.10, v0.12 or v4
• ZeroMQ (libzmq3-dev for Ubuntu/Debian or zeromq on OSX)
• ~200GB of disk storage
• ~8GB of RAM

Documentation

• Upgrade Notes
• Services
• Wificoind - Interface to Wificoind
• Web - Creates an express application over which services can expose their web/API content

License

Code released under the MIT license.

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