README

Bitcoinocracy is a project that aims to determine the truth backed by real monetary value and to facilitate decentralized decision making in the Bitcoin eco-system.

It is absolutely transparent, free and doesn't require user registration.

Just sign the statements with non-empty bitcoin addresses to express your opinion.

Data structure

Argument
	statement
	validity

Signature
	argument_id
	bitcoin_address_id
	is_negation?
	signature

BitcoinAddress
	bitcoin_address
	balance

Algorithm

For each argument calculate validity: validity = sum(pro bitcoin balances) - sum(con bitcoin balances)

Docker-compose instructions

Build:

docker-compose build

Before you run it, please copy the file .env.sample to .env and edit it to configure the environment.

Run:

docker-compose up

You might also need to run the database migrations in your docker container in order to update the database schema:

rake db:migrate

or (if you run it for the first time):

ADMIN_EMAIL='[email protected]' ADMIN_PASSWORD='your-admin-password'; rake db:migrate