- The node ID is not stored on the disk anymore, it's generated when fud starts.
- PoW uses Equi-X (https://spec.torproject.org/hspow-spec/v1-equix.html), the challenge contains a recent BTC block hash because it's 1) unpredictable 2) known by all fud nodes 3) periodically updated 4) stable. Once the block you chose for your node ID is too old, you will generate another one with another keypair and block hash (or other nodes will exclude you from their DHT).
- BTC block hashes are fetched from the Electrum nodes defined in the config file (you can use tor/i2p nodes if you want).
- Equi-X challenge is `(public_key || btc_block_hash || nonce)`, a node ID is `Hash(equix_challenge || equix_solution)`. You must evaluate the PoW to get a valid node ID.
- The keypair is random and regenerated when you create a new node ID, it's only there so that you can sign messages.
- `Dht` and `DhtHandler` now have a generic parameter which is any struct implementing the `DhtNode` trait. It was not needed before because fud did not use any fud-specific fields for its node struct. All the PoW stuff is in `fud` and NOT in `dht`.
- `fud/src/equix.rs` does not depend on fud, we can move it elsewhere if we want to use Equi-X in another bin.
- `FudPingRequest` now includes a random u64, the other node must provide a signature of that u64 (along with other data, including the data making up its node ID) in its `FudPingReply`.
This is a Sparse Merkle Tree used for contract state proofs.
We only support in-memory storage and BLAKE3 as the hasher.
Implementation is taken and stripped down from the repository located at
<https://github.com/thyeem/monotree/> and is licensed under the MIT License.
This commit relocates the explorer code from the research directory to `bin/explorer` to include it as part of future releases.
### Summary of Updates:
#### Darkfi Project
- Updated `Cargo.toml` to include `bin/explorer/explorerd` as a workspace member
- Updated `Cargo.lock` to include the `explorerd` package
- Updated the `Makefile` to include `explorerd` in the build process
#### Explorer Daemon
- Renamed the project directory from `blockchain-explorer` to `explorer`
- Moved the explorer daemon source code to `bin/explorer/explorerd`
- Updated the cargo package name to `explorerd`
- Updated log statement targets from `blockchain-explorer::` to `explorerd::`
- Renamed the explorer configuration file to `explorerd_config.toml`
- Removed Halo2 patches as they are now included in the root package
- Changed default db_path to use explorerd instead of blockchain-explorer in the path
- Changed binary crate Arg structopt name from blockchain-explorer to explorerd
#### Explorer Site
- Moved the explorer site source code to `bin/explorer/site`
- Updated README.md to include new build instructions for explorerd
