Is Essentia Open Source?
The current situation in the development market can be very discouraging for some days. We see increasingly more news about fake applications being created in order to scam people and lure out their funds. The amazingly altruistic idea of the open code is being abused by bad actors for malicious purposes. The worst part of it is that it is almost impossible to track down the culprits let alone halting the circulation of these fake apps.
The situation being what it is, we decided that it would be reasonable not to disclose parts of Essentia’s code to the general public — mainly those that could be possibly used to do harm to our community.
We’re still big believers in decentralization and we’re definitely still going to publicly release sections of Essentia’s code. Those parts that we believe will contribute to the blockchain ecosystem and cannot be used for unintended purposes will be added to our official GitHub. For example, not so long ago we released the API wrapper written in Python that allows you to communicate with Essentia bridges RESTful APIs. This particular section of code is available for the desktop and iOS versions (bridges API, network core) and includes Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin wallets. We believe that this functionality will be useful for developers.
We do not plan to share the code of the Android application for now, however. Unfortunately, Google Play’s policy allows for the clone apps to be uploaded and this would provide scammers with an excellent opportunity to exploit the original app’s users. Apple, on the other hand, makes sure that every application is one of a kind. That is why we are discussing the possibility of moving the iOS version into open source development in the future.
We are also currently developing a push notification service, which we also plan to make completely open source.
Decentralization and transparency are still core elements of Essentia — we want to further the progress of the blockchain community as a whole while still protecting our community from scammers!
Find Essentia’s official GitHub here.
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