Hey Bitcoin community,
I am pleased to announce that BlockPress – the on-chain social media platform that existed as an independent memo-like protocol implementation in 2018, is now open-sourced.
I am not a member of the original team. However, I was a part of the small team that tried to take over the development in late 2018 after BlockPress announced they had stopped their work on the project. We acquired the source code for some BCH intending to release it in open source but unfortunately, as the code was quite messy and life had taken a different turn overall, we put the project on the shelf.
Today, as censorship on the global social media platforms is in full swing, we believe this is the right moment to enrich the Bitcoin Cash infrastructure with another Memo protocol implementation. We believe in the power of on-chain social media. We will try hard to deliver another robust solution that will help promoting truly open and decentralized media alongside memo.cash and member.cash.
The code we release is exactly what was received from u/etherbid in 2018, and it will not run as-is without a few patches and fixes. We are working to provide them asap.
We cannot judge the quality of the original codebase and design decisions behind it, but we truly hope it will become a valuable contribution to the emerging industry.
The immediate roadmap is to transition to minimal Memo protocol with 0x6d prefixes, and I will share the broader vision soon.
At this moment, we are not sure that all modules are working as expected, but the blockchain parser and basic UI work fine.
Thanks for your attention, and consider putting some coins in a tip jar! bitcoincash:qqnls5p49cs0dl52k5qp6v9d4yx4ulpe95qkp7404e
P.S.
We will base our Coinparty hackathon work on this codebase, and we have two slots available within our team. If you are interested in participating and still haven't come up with an idea, and if you have experience with Ruby-on-Rails and/or Angular, drop me a message!
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