squeaknode

A peer-to-peer status feed with posts unlocked by Lightning.

Squeaknode allows you to create, view, buy, and sell squeaks.

A squeak is an immutable, signed structure that:

• contains up to 280 utf-8 characters of text, encrypted (can only be decrypted with access to the decryption key obtained by lightning payment)
• contains the height and block hash of the latest bitcoin block
• contains the public key of the author
• contains the public key of the recipient, if the text is end-to-end encrypted
• contains the hash of another squeak, if the squeak is a reply
• can be used to derive a unique hash

The protocol is defined here.

Installation

Requirements

• a Bitcoin node
• an LND node
• Python 3.6 or later

Optional

• a Tor SOCKS5 proxy (you can open Tor Browser and run it in the background)

Step 1. Create the configuration

Update the config.ini file and fill in the relevant sections to connect to your Bitcoin node and LND node:

[node]
network=mainnet

[lnd]
host=localhost
tls_cert_path=~/.lnd/tls.cert
macaroon_path=~/.lnd/data/chain/bitcoin/mainnet/admin.macaroon

[bitcoin]
rpc_host=localhost
rpc_port=8332
rpc_user=devuser
rpc_pass=devpass

[tor]
proxy_ip=localhost
proxy_port=9150

[webadmin]
enabled=true
username=devuser
password=devpass

Add any other configs that you need.

Step 2. Install squeaknode:

pip install squeaknode

Or install from source

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install .

Step 3. Start squeaknode:

squeaknode --config config.ini

Go to http://localhost:12994/ and use the username/password in config.ini to log in.

Test

Unit tests:

Requirements

• tox

make test

Integration tests:

Requirements

• docker-compose
• jq

make itest

Release + Commit Verification

All releases and all maintainer commits as of January 5, 2022 are signed by key D761F27D9B20BA52 (yzernik@gmail.com). The key can be found in this repo and on the Squeaknode website.

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file.