Silkaj

Command line client for Ğ1 libre-currency powered by Duniter

• Website

Install

Distribution

Install with your favorite package manager. See below the packaging status paragraph.

Pipx

If you want a more recent version install with pipx:

sudo apt install pipx
pipx install silkaj

Docker images

There is two kind of images. One build with pip for user purposes, and one using Poetry for developer purposes.

• Docker images

For contributing purposes

• Install the Poetry development environment
• Check out the contributing guidelines

Usage

• Get help usage with -h or --help options, then run:

silkaj <sub-command>

Silkaj command line interface (CLI) is structured by groups of commands:

silkaj blockchain -h
silkaj money -h
silkaj money transfer -h
silkaj wot revocation -h

You can find commands at the root, such as silkaj license

• Will automatically request and post data on https://g1.duniter.org/node/summary official Ğ1 endpoint.

• Specify a custom node with -ep option where <port> and <path> are optional:

silkaj -ep <hostname>:<port>/<path> <sub-command>

Features

Currency information & blockchain exploration

• Check the present currency information stand
• Display current proof of work difficulty level to generate the next block
• Explore the blockchain block by block
• Verify blockchain blocks hashes

Money management

• Transaction emission
  • Multi-recipients transaction support
  • Read transaction recipients and amounts from a file
• Consult wallets balances
• Consult wallet history

Web-of-Trust management

• Look up for public keys and identities
• Check sent and received certifications and consult the membership status of any given identity in the Web of Trust
• Certification emission
• Membership emission
• Revocation file handling

Authentication

• Authentication methods: Scrypt, file, and (E)WIF

Others

• Display Ğ1 monetary license
• Public key checksum

Wrappers

• How-to: automate transactions and multi-output
• Transaction generator written in Shell
• Ğ1Cotis
• G1pourboire
• Ğ1SMS
• Ğmixer
• printqrjune

Dependencies

Silkaj is based on following Python modules:

• Click: Composable command line interface toolkit
• DuniterPy: Most complete client oriented Python library for Duniter/Ğ1 ecosystem
• Pendulum: Datetimes made easy
• texttable: Creation of simple ASCII tables

Names

I wanted to call that program:

• bamiyan
• margouillat
• lsociety
• cashmere

I finally called it Silkaj as Silk in esperanto.

Website

• Silkaj website sources

Packaging status