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Re: Show HN: REST-Like API for Ethereum Smart Contracts

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Post by snissn » Tue, Aug 15, 2017, 7:38 PM UTC

Is it open source?

Re: Show HN: REST-Like API for Ethereum Smart Contracts

#12

Post by che_shirecat » Tue, Aug 15, 2017, 8:52 PM UTC

daveytea wrote: post #8

This is great and potentially solves a challenge i'm having right now working with geth. However, I'm not comfortable sending private keys to your API end point. Do you guys have a solution to solve this concern? I'm sure others would probably feel the same...

create a separate wallet on myEtherWallet and fund it with a little bit of eth to run the calls that you're making. you'd have to be stupid to send the private key of a wallet with a non-trivial amount of eth to an endpoint of a closed source, un-attributable API. which again limits the usefulness, imo.

Re: Show HN: REST-Like API for Ethereum Smart Contracts

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Post by serveboy » Tue, Aug 15, 2017, 9:52 PM UTC

It certainly gets one thing right : what a fantastic name! Props

Re: Show HN: REST-Like API for Ethereum Smart Contracts

#14

Post by josephros » Tue, Aug 15, 2017, 11:03 PM UTC

daveytea wrote: post #8

This is great and potentially solves a challenge i'm having right now working with geth. However, I'm not comfortable sending private keys to your API end point. Do you guys have a solution to solve this concern? I'm sure others would probably feel the same...

Thanks! The private key concern is sensible. Our plan is to open source the code and make the hosted version auditable in real time to prove the code being run is 'honest'. Bit of work to do on this, still. I'll post an update when we get there.

Re: Show HN: REST-Like API for Ethereum Smart Contracts

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Post by josephros » Tue, Aug 15, 2017, 11:22 PM UTC

snissn wrote: post #11

Is it open source?

Not yet. As other commenters have pointed out there's a trust issue some might have for submitting transactions via it so we plan on open sourcing soon to deal with that.

Re: Show HN: REST-Like API for Ethereum Smart Contracts

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Post by josephros » Tue, Aug 15, 2017, 11:23 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #7

Is it a REST API in a Server that accesses Ethereum or is it running on Ethereum?

It's a REST API in a server that accesses Ethereum. It's not a smart contract running directly on Ethereum. Rather it accesses smart contracts which themselves are 'on' Ethereum.

Re: Show HN: REST-Like API for Ethereum Smart Contracts

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Post by daveytea » Wed, Aug 16, 2017, 5:16 AM UTC

josephros wrote: post #14

daveytea wrote: post #8

This is great and potentially solves a challenge i'm having right now working with geth. However, I'm not comfortable sending private keys to your API end point. Do you guys have a solution to solve this concern? I'm sure others would probably feel the same...

Thanks! The private key concern is sensible. Our plan is to open source the code and make the hosted version auditable in real time to prove the code being run is 'honest'. Bit of work to do on this, still. I'll post an update when we get there.

Open source sounds great! Please post back here when its available as I really like your service.

Re: Show HN: REST-Like API for Ethereum Smart Contracts

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Post by ethereal_ghost » Wed, Aug 16, 2017, 10:40 PM UTC

daveytea wrote: post #17

josephros wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! The private key concern is sensible. Our plan is to open source the code and make the hosted version auditable in real time to prove the code being run is 'honest'. Bit of work to do on this, still. I'll post an update when we get there.

Open source sounds great! Please post back here when its available as I really like your service.

There are many of these coming out. Mobius (https://mobius.network/) is one that provides very easy API to create smart contracts and apps, which you can choose to post on for their live DApp Store (https://mobius.network/store). It's based on Stellar but other ERC20 tokens like Credo/Bitbounce are using it now. Here's a link to the docs: https://mobius.network/docs/

Re: Show HN: REST-Like API for Ethereum Smart Contracts

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Post by che_shirecat » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 12:11 PM UTC

ethereal_ghost wrote: post #18

daveytea wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open source sounds great! Please post back here when its available as I really like your service.

There are many of these coming out. Mobius ( https://mobius.network/ ) is one that provides very easy API to create smart contracts and apps, which you can choose to post on for their live DApp Store ( https://mobius.network/store ). It's based on Stellar but other ERC20 tokens like Credo/Bitbounce are using it now. Here's a link to the docs: https://mobius.network/docs/

you're being a little disingenuous about self promoting your ICO aren't you?