How to Install Menlo One’s TownHall on your Local IPFS Node
We launched TownHall in April 2018 with the vision that a framework for developers to build decentralized and incentive driven communication systems would be a crucial next step for evolving the blockchain. TownHall has been central to the idea of how Menlo One can achieve our goals and why we’ve open-sourced our code. We’ve always wanted to demonstrate our proof-of-work and showcase our technology.
And now we’re excited that our team member, Nathan Windsor, has created a (technically) simple video tutorial to demonstrate how to install and run TownHall. Since this is a technical how-to for builders, it’s not meant to be plug & play. For developers, these are some everyday things you’ll be familiar with to install TownHall locally:
The source code and instruction set is available on GitHub: https://github.com/MenloOne/townhall
- GO — https://golang.org/dl/
- IPFS — https://ipfs.io/docs/install/
- NVM — https://github.com/creationix/nvm
- Node.js — https://nodejs.org/en/download/
- Github — https://github.com/
- Metamask — https://metamask.io/
- Yarn — https://yarnpkg.com/
- brew — https://brew.sh/
Why TownHall?
TownHall is designed so that everyone has to pay a little bit to contribute, and the most valuable posts and comments are rewarded in Menlo Tokens. The system is designed to reward users who provide valuable content to a discussion by paying them in tokens and this is demonstrated when Nathan uses TestNet Ether to create a post.
We invite all our followers and supporters to try it out for themselves and would love your feedback!
For more information on TownHall checkout our coverage on Venturebeat and our original blog announcement.
Happy compiling!
