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Inspiration

Imagine a time where open source contributers are rewarded like normal programmers writing code for companies? Thats what we want to achieve.

Projects like DLive/DTube and Steemit which provide a similar service to Content Creators like video producers or photographer.

Why we built it

To support and reward open source developers!
Making it easier to support open source developers for users.
Companies want to support open source projects they are using but struggle to do so.

What it does

Our Project supports Developer, which are contributing to OpenSource Projects by rewarding them for pull-requests that get merged into participating open source repositories with gitcoins.

How we built it

We developed a rudimentary Cryptocurrency with Google's Dartlang.

We choose Dartlang because it's easy to learn, but yet powerful and supports a wide variety of Operating Systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux.

The frontend is connected via REST api and written in vue.js.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into two major challenges.

First

The first challenge was choosing a secure signing algorithm to create trusted Transactions between multiple users. We used pointycastle's RSA Signature Algorithm because it is commonly used by developers all around the globe. Even though the Elliptic Curve would have been more secure.

Second

The second challenge was to provide a peer to peer connection between two Nodes(Clients). We decided that each Node is a webserver and also an http-client. That worked out well because http communication is quite simple and fast.

Accomplishments that we are proud of

The Blockchain algorithm and the complete project came together in a nice way. We implemented a nice looking frontend in darkmode :). Also our blockchain works on distributed nodes.