NavDroid StakeBox Public BetaThe NavDroid StakeBox has been released for public peer review and the NavCoin Knowledge Base is now open source and community driven.
This week's top storyNavDroid StakeBox Public BetaThe NavCoin network is secured by Proof of Stake which is a form of network consensus that requires only a minimal amount of computing power. There is no requirement to have specialised computer chips or expensive mining rigs since increased computing power does not lead to increased mining rewards. At the beginning of 2017 the NavPi was released, a Raspberry Pi computer the size of a credit card, loaded with the software and interface to participate in securing the NavCoin network. Since then, the NavCoin blockchain has grown and the onboard memory of the NavPi struggled to keep up with storing all the block headers. Since then, NavCoin Core has been looking for alternative low powered devices to take over the reigns from the NavPi.
A couple of months ago work began on creating the NavDroid interface for the Odroid XU4. The beta version of this software is now available to the public for download. The software provides the basic functionality for mining on the XU4 device; Send, Receive, Transaction Lists, Community Fund Voting, Encrypt, Backup and Restore.
The software is built with NodeJS and Angular, and fully open source. We encourage any web developers or designers who would like to get involved in working with blockchain to try the software, test it and help to fix bugs or improve the user interface. What we’ve released today is simply a starting point for the community to run with.
Until the software has been fully peer reviewed and any bugs fixed, we recommend using the NavDroid with caution and not using it as your primary mining device.
You can install the repositories on an existing Odroid by cloning the software from GitHub and installing with NPM, or if you want to download the image join the community on discord to get the download link.
There are two main code repositories;
NavCoin Express is the NodeJS back end server that interacts with the daemon and provides the API to the front end.
https://github.com/Encrypt-S/navcoin-expressNavCoin Angular is the Angular front end web server that provides the web interface for controlling your NavCoin wallet.
https://github.com/Encrypt-S/navcoin-angularIf you find any bugs or want to make any improvements, please create an issue or a pull request on the appropriate repository and join the community on discord to discuss.
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