A luckypost is a compact human-readable text-based data structure designed for decentralized and trust-less authenticated public text-based discussion.
This is a Python library for creating, parsing and verifying luckyposts, it also provides a basic command-line interface.
This library is intended to be used by luckynet clients.
You'll need a Python interpreter along with the pip package installer.
python -m pip install luckypost
A command-line interface is provided to access the library's functionality, this is intended for luckynet developers, not users (but users are welcome to use it if they want).
python -m luckypost create en.test authorname "<Hello world!"
The user will then be prompted to enter their passphrase, alternatively it can
be specified on the command line with the -p argument.
python -m luckypost verify "2022-04-20 05:06:21 en.test authorname <Hello world! @afw43if2j7b5r34ktfpiasofk5jg2zo3gqhlcl6s2hre2xl7ntbba !a16+K7HPXucuCQMiV4676N43VLFzFpU1RBLDgdhFJgNrHYm8NBqz85pnWLYTv9PjsnWcut33CtY13vEY54ycUY5rJhA"
If the given luckypost is authentic then its ID and POWER levels will also be shown.
python -m luckypost mine a afw43if2j7b5r34ktfpiasofk5jg2zo3gqhlcl6s2hre2xl7ntbba
The a is the type of hashing algorithm to use, in this case SHA256.
Extensions and their respective POWER levels will be printed out as higher-levelled nonces are discovered.
Take the extension and include it when creating a post using the -x argument.
python -m luckypost create en.test authorname "<Hello world!" -x pabzPrL12m
Luckypost is not a cryptocurrency, proof-of-work calculations are only used to distinguish an account from those belonging to spammers. There is no financial incentive to mine higher POWER levels.