Catena can be used by any service or application who wants to prove a linear history of statements to its clients.
First, install Maven:
sudo apt-get install maven
If you're on Mac OS X, download the Bitcoin source code from GitHub to ~/repos/bitcoin/ (you can change set-env.sh if you want to choose a different directory) and compile the bitcoind binary using instructions in doc/build-osx.md
Then, compile Catena:
mvn compile
Then, setup your environment so that the Bitcoin-related scripts in btc-scripts/ work:
. set-env.sh
Then, run all the tests:
./test.sh
Then you can run a Catena server using ./run-server.sh (pass in -h for help) and a Catena client using ./run-client.sh.
You can play with Catena on the Bitcoin testnet network for free:
- Get testnet Bitcoins from a free faucet like this one: https://tpfaucet.appspot.com/
- Start the server and create a root-of-trust TXN (example here)
- Use the server to create a config for the Catena client
- Launch the client with the config file and wait for the statements to arrive
Some websites:
- Blocktrail.com, for browsing the testnet blockchain
- Also, blockexplorer.com, for browsing the testnet blockchain
- Testnet faucet, for getting coins