BDCash Blockchain Versioning CLI

This package has been created to maintain and verify code thanks to the blockchain. It's not an alternative to git but it can be used with git to create trustless open-source software.

How it works

BDCash BVC or bdcash-bvc is an npm module that must be installed globally:

npm i -g @bdcash-protocol/bvc

When you've installed it you can use it from any folder you desire to track with the blockchain.

First of all you need a Lyra address, you can obtain an address thanks to https://wallet.bdcashprotocol.com or https://id.bdcashprotocol.com or simply downloading the QT wallet and creating a new address.

After you've an address with at least 0.001 BDCASH you can import the private key with:

bdcash-bvc importkey YourPrivateKey AStrongPassphrase

Init a new folder

When you've created a new project (it doesn't matter what's the programming language or if it's a software at all) you can enter the folder and init the project with a bdcash-manifest.json file like this:

cd myAwesomeProject
bdcash-bvc init

This will create a new file called bdcash-manifest.json like this one:

{
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "name": "",
    "alias": "",
    "options": {
        "folders": { "exclude": [".*", "node_modules", "db"] },
        "files": { "include": ["*.*"] }
    },
    "address": ""
}

You need to write all the blank fields with your informations:

• name: a name for the entire project
• alias a short alias for the project, it can be used in near future to globally check or download something from the blockchain
• options: includes and excludes options for folder-hash package. You can see usage here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/folder-hash
• address: this is the Lyra address we imported before (not private key obviously)

Publish updates

After we initializated our folder we can publish the hashed contents to the blockchain like this:

bdcash-bvc publish MyStrongPassphrase

This will create a genesis transaction with the entire scrypta-manifest.json file and will create first version, supposing 1.0.0.

Any change to the version will allow to publish other versions, like 1.0.1 etc.

Verify a folder

Supposing you've published your folder you can verify it simply with:

cd myAwesomeProject
bdcash-bvc verify

If your file matches the blockchain one you will receive a success message, if they're different you will be notified about that and you should download it or simply don't trust the source.