Topic: [ANN] FIMK: 2.5G POS, extra block rewards, messaging, asset colors, p2p shopping - page 10. (Read 184356 times)

Incompatible change: If using non-default port, the hallmark must also include
that port, otherwise the hallmark is ignored.

The gossip protocol comes without a built-in storage mechanism.
Gossip messages send to the network are distributed among all peers on the network and that's that, messages are not stored by any of the peers.

The gossip messages are in many ways similar to NXT/FIMK transactions.

- they can use strong encryption
- they always have a sender
- they can have a recipient
- they always have a timestamp
- they always have a topic (which is a free-form number similar to how there are transaction types)
- they all contain a powerful cryptographic signature which can be used to confirm the sender is who he/she says he/she is (this will almost certainly be used at a later stage to manage network access and/or priority for gossip messages - basically spam control)

So how does that work if I cant query the network for messages?

Well thats where the efficiency comes from, it's an event based system.
For anyone familiar with NodeJS or Javascript in general knows that event based systems can be made to scale since they run so efficiently.

For this to work each server (peer) in the network (at least the ones that want to serve clients) needs to be able to have clients register with them as listeners (done over websockets) and when that peer detects a valid gossip message it should forward that to it's registered client listeners.
But not to every listening client of course, only to those interested in that specific topic, sender or recipient (or combination of those).

If done from Perl it might require some reverse engineering the current javascript code but if you do that what you'd end up with is a real-time always on connection from your Perl script basically straight into the gossip network. You can basically code the Perl script to be a lot like a bot that auto-responds to messages it receives from the network.

Other people can have a real-time connection with your script without knowing it's IP address, that is since all messages are directed to any one of the peers in the gossip network. Because of this one-to-one-to-all setup between clients and servers and servers among each other the scale of the number of direct connections becomes enormous. And because each gossip message comes with a sender ID which is your FIMK address (until i add this to NXT-PLUS) each relay node (peer) in the network has access to the same strong identity and balance info as all the others, meaning it can stop spam data at the gate (keeping things really fast).

What can be built on such a free decentralized real-time message bus (since thats what it is basically) I dont know. But I know it's a lot, real-time direct chat is just one it's uses.

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So how to connect from Perl? Don't know about that, but i can point in the right direction as to where the important javascript stuff is.
If you look at the gossip-service.js you'll find the full client-side implementation of it all:

https://github.com/fimkrypto/mofowallet/blob/e5a7db321ff990bb44efe65d3c0a9a620c313f36/app/scripts/services/gossip-service.js

Not all of that is required of course to get a working prototype. I'm planning still on making an easy to use plugin system to tap into Lompsa, it will contain the most easiest gossip support possible I guess.

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So in short - what to remember is - Gossip is a free decentralized messaging protocol - making it possible for people around the world to have real-time, free, encrypted communications with each other.

I'm sorry. Totally forgot to update here.
There has been an intermediate release for a few days now which is here https://github.com/fimkrypto/mofowallet/releases/tag/v0.4.6 i'm sorry it's not final but the new (now really) free chat feature (called the gossip protocol btw..) is taking up a lot of time.

good job with LOMPSA
One question, the transference NXT works well but in Asset I have a problem, it does not reflect my balance and I cannot buy or sell.
in the paragraph of TRADE the balance puts 0, nevertheless, in Account-->more-->asset  the correct balance appears

Problem turned out to be an angular issue where text input was automatically trimmed (spaces removed at end and start) before it updates the model.
Fix is here: https://github.com/fimkrypto/mofowallet/commit/6458f50fa79857b11be2de55013d0ca1d8c1de0d
Will upload new build when i have a chance.

Thanks PilotBTC! (unfortunately i don't really see a work around atm)

Problem turned out to be an angular issue where text input was automatically trimmed (spaces removed at end and start) before it updates the model.
Fix is here: https://github.com/fimkrypto/mofowallet/commit/6458f50fa79857b11be2de55013d0ca1d8c1de0d
Will upload new build when i have a chance.

Thanks PilotBTC! (unfortunately i don't really see a work around atm)

Problem turned out to be an angular issue where text input was automatically trimmed (spaces removed at end and start) before it updates the model.
Fix is here: https://github.com/fimkrypto/mofowallet/commit/6458f50fa79857b11be2de55013d0ca1d8c1de0d
Will upload new build when i have a chance.

Thanks PilotBTC! (unfortunately i don't really see a work around atm)