Bear Bucks on the Blockchain

Getting Started: Run all three services in separate terminal windows

1. Running Bitcoin core server with RPC and testnet

• bitcoind --txindex=1 --server=1 --testnet --reindex testnet uses port 18332

2. Running Django

• python3 manage.py migrate --run-syncdb may have to run this first
• python3 manage.py runserver

3. Running Celery Worker

• celery worker -A celery_tasks --loglevel=INFO or DEBUG

How to Start Using Bear Bucks on the Blockchain

• Create a user and sign into: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/
• Create a Currency (such as BBUX)
• Set api_url field in the format of http://username:password@localhost:18332 (from bitcoin.conf)
• Create a Wallet and run the refil_addresses_queue task to assign it an address
• Add testnet coins to your wallet address for free with: https://testnet.manu.backend.hamburg/faucet

Here are some of the different tasks you can call

• celery call cc.tasks.refill_addresses_queue
• celery call cc.tasks.query_transaction --args='[ticker,txid]'
• celery call cc.tasks.query_transaction -a=[BTC,c810d50a0dc84bf7f62b398896578ddc881ad2a71fa00d2dc59e485ff159d1f1]
• curl -d "param1=value1&param2=value2" -X POST http://localhost:8080/getbalance

Versions

• Ubuntu (16.04)
• Python (3.5.2)
• Pip (8.1.1)
• Django (2.0.0)
• Celery (4.1.0)