Luckypost

A luckypost is a compact human-readable text-based data structure designed for decentralized and trust-less authenticated public text-based discussion.

This is a Python library for creating, parsing and verifying luckyposts, it also provides a basic command-line interface.

This library is intended to be used by luckynet clients.

Installation

You'll need a Python interpreter along with the pip package installer.

python -m pip install luckypost

Usage

A command-line interface is provided to access the library's functionality, this is intended for luckynet developers, not users (but users are welcome to use it if they want).

Hello world

python -m luckypost create en.test authorname "<Hello world!"

The user will then be prompted to enter their passphrase, alternatively it can be specified on the command line with the -p argument.

Verification

python -m luckypost verify "2022-04-20 05:06:21 en.test authorname <Hello world! @afw43if2j7b5r34ktfpiasofk5jg2zo3gqhlcl6s2hre2xl7ntbba !a16+K7HPXucuCQMiV4676N43VLFzFpU1RBLDgdhFJgNrHYm8NBqz85pnWLYTv9PjsnWcut33CtY13vEY54ycUY5rJhA"

If the given luckypost is authentic then its ID and POWER levels will also be shown.

PoW mining

python -m luckypost mine a afw43if2j7b5r34ktfpiasofk5jg2zo3gqhlcl6s2hre2xl7ntbba

The a is the type of hashing algorithm to use, in this case SHA256.

Extensions and their respective POWER levels will be printed out as higher-levelled nonces are discovered.

Using

Take the extension and include it when creating a post using the -x argument.

python -m luckypost create en.test authorname "<Hello world!" -x pabzPrL12m

Environmental impact

Luckypost is not a cryptocurrency, proof-of-work calculations are only used to distinguish an account from those belonging to spammers. There is no financial incentive to mine higher POWER levels.