Growing primitive blockchain life - group 13

[MohamedLEGH]

Create a Bitcoin-based entity which can earn money, mutate, multiply, and dies. Very crude starting point which needs decades of further work in order to be considered 'really' living. This projects builds upon existing code creating crude Bitcoin Life.

You will create an Internet-deployed system which can earn money, replicate itself, and which has no human control. In the past humanity has created chess programs that it can no longer beat. The distant future of an omniscient computer system that on day chooses to exterminate humanity in the Terminator films is the not focus of your project. You will create software that is beyond human control and includes breathtaking features such as earning money (Bitcoin) and self-replicating code (software buys a server+spawn clone). Earning money consists of helping others become anonymous using the Tor-like protocols developed at TUDelft and our own cybercurrency designed for this purpose, called Trustchain coins. You Python software is able to accomplish some parts of the following functionality:

Earn income in a form of cybercurrency (existing code)
Sell this cybercurrency on a market for Bitcoins
Buy a server using Bitcoins fully automatically (see our PyPi scripts)
Login to this Linux server and install itself from the Github repository
The software also should be able to have a simplistic form of genetic evolution. Key parameters will be inherited to offspring and altered with a mutation probability. For instance, what software version of yourself to use (latest release?), what type of server to prefer buying (quad core, 4GB mem, etc), and if you offer Tor exit node services for income. Bitcoins owned by TUDelft will be used to bootstrap your research.

[devos50]

Related literature:

• https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3A08841cf0-8ddf-4354-9c99-bc7c270d67fd
• http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X17318988
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cloudomate
• autonomous self-replicating code #2925

[devos50]

Group members:

@MohamedLEGH
@mikvrax
@mr-spd
@Ka-Wing
@pblank12

[mr-spd]

TODO week 1:

• Read everything
• Case specify everything
• Go through the code and run it
• Install PyCharm
• Fork Github project
• Try using bitcoins (find where to buy bitcoin servers and get receipts)
• Look into testing code for quality assurance

[MohamedLEGH]

Repository of the project : https://github.com/MohamedLEGH/BlockchainLife

[synctext]

Big boost:

• Buy VPN from a VPS using a Bitcoin wallet 🥇
• check https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cloudomate/0.1.3 still operational
• PyCharm project or docker image of all parts
• Enable other groups to continue
• Documentation of all existing work

[MohamedLEGH]

TODO week 2 :

• Everybody : understand and run the code. Check with the other group about cloudomate with python3.

• Mohamed Amine and Ka-Wing : Create the Docker image. Can we use docker image for the agent child installation on the server ?

• Dinesh : Find how to buy a VPN in bitcoin.

• Michael and Philip : understand how the Tribler API works.

[devos50]

Market RESful API code: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/tree/devel/Tribler/Core/Modules/restapi/market

[MohamedLEGH]

Today we will work to implement the VPN part in cloudomate : parse vpn form and send email to tell that the vpn form works. We have choose a VPN provider : ExpressVPN. The Bitpay API has been checked by Phillip and Dinesh.

TODO LIST :

• Look at testnet and buy bitcoins: Mohamed

• Make the python script for VPN parsing : Dinesh and Phillip

• Extract email data : Michael

• Test cloudomate from the other group : Ka-Wing

[Ka-Wing]

TODO week 5:

Main goal:
Create demo for VPN buying, maybe a video. (@Ka-Wing and @mr-spd)
Issue #4 - Issue #5

Additional possible goals:
Integration test for IP change after VPN buying
Support Ethereum, check for wallets supporting Ethereum (@Ka-Wing)
Amazon Mechanical Turk for CAPTCHA solving (@mikvrax)

Else:
Decide what we will show in the end

[devos50]

Please remember that your meeting next week Tuesday (11:00) will be with Johan 👍

[synctext]

ai. another group is already scheduled then. Will be a late afternoon appointment Tuesday.

[mr-spd]

Any indication what time the meeting will be?

[synctext]

lets make it 16:30

[synctext]

Warning, not making big progress. Ideas for features:

• VPN+VPS
• Ethereum buying
• Ethereum/other coin tasks for captcha solvers
• Key parameters will be inherited to offspring and altered with a mutation probability.
• inheritance transaction to one or multiple children
• scheduling of buying
• CloudOmate integration

[MohamedLEGH]

• Our agent now has the possiblity to make payments with it newly implemented Ethereum wallet !
  

[Ka-Wing]

Over 90% progress of scraping https://vpn.ac.

[pblank12]

TEAM#13: SOLVED! : Captchas are no longer an issue.

Our Agent can now solve image captchas in a timely and efficient matter.

[mr-spd]

• Mullvad VPN implemented. Can buy (with bitcoins) and install VPN.

[mikvrax]

Cloudomate Crowncloud VPS + Mullvad VPN working properly together

[pblank12]

Group#13: Google's ReCaptcha Solved!!

Agent now has the possibility to solve google ReCaptchas in a timely and efficient matter.

[MohamedLEGH]

Next meeetup is Tuesday 16/01 at 11 am.

Todo List :

• integrate mullvad (Dinesh and Phillip)

• integrate captcha solver (human solver API) and make a pull request (Dinesh and Phillip)

• finish Ethereum VPN integration (Ka-wing)

• upgrade Ethereum wallet (make a demo of it for next meetup) and make a pull request (Mohamed)

• Begin Ethereum VPS (Mohamed and Ka-wing)

• finish fully automated Plebnet and Cloudomate - bitcoin mode - with VPS/VPN together (Michael)

[synctext]

For Stanford exposure I need input for slides on 23Jan at the latest. As discussed, contact the other team #3238 to plan upcoming features, sync of very similar efforts, and merge your team work into their Plebnet repo. Especially your operational ReCaptcha needs to be first communicated to them ASAP. PlebNet needs to be updated by 25Jan at the latest. Happy hacking!
@devos50 If possible move that entire repo to github.com/Tribler + control of pypi.python.org updates

[devos50]

Next meeting: Tuesday 23 January, 17:00. Please don't forget to post your progress + TODO list for this week on the ticket.

[MohamedLEGH]

Progress right now :

Mullvad bitcoin VPN works

captcha solver (human solver API) works

Ethereum Wallet works, need private key and link to an ethereum node provider

We need to do some slides, title : autonomous blockchain mining using a botnet ?

We need to discuss with the other group because they are going to upgrade their code
need to do pull request for ethereum wallet and captcha solver (Michael in charge for pull requests)

If we have time : IRC communication ( a mail if something appends)

Next meeting at 5pm, 23 of January

TODO LIST for next week:

• Add Ethereum VPS (Kawing and Mohamed)

• finish end to end integration of coinpayments (Dinesh and Phillip)

• units tests and template into cloudomate (Michael)

• documentation and report (everyone)

[pblank12]

[pblank12]

[pblank12]

[synctext]

An animated .gif with cmdline captcha in 16:9 aspect ratio would be great! Deadline tomorrow evening,Amsterdam time zone.

[mikvrax]

MullVad VPN cloudomate integration

[MohamedLEGH]

Next meeting (the last one) : 30 January, 11h30 am

Find a date for the presentation (Doodle)

• gifs are done
• pull request for captcha solver is done, waiting for merge (or request for improvement)

TODO :

• Make the pull requests (3 requests : captcha solver, we have also ethereum wallet and mullvad) with documentation (Mikael)

  • compatible with python2 and 3
  • squash commits

• End to end integration of coinpayments with emails ( Phillip and Mohamed)

• vpn.ac installation and integration (Phillip)

• ExpressVPN installation and integration (Dinesh)

• Upgrading Ethereum wallet (Mohamed and Kawing)

  • infura scraping
  • private key generator

• Reload the captcha automatically (if we have time)

• The final report (everyone)

By the way , I will go back to France the 2 of February, can I do the presentation by Skype ? or can we do the presentation before the 2 of February ?

[mr-spd]

@synctext Would this work for your presentation? I cropped them to 16:9.

[synctext]

Nice stuff. How does the 2nd Google .gif one work? You can see the road stuff being clicked by a human or not? Then it goes cmdline.

[devos50]

Cloudomate 1.0 has been released, thanks for your contributions! https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cloudomate

[pblank12]

@synctext :
The second gif is called a google ReCaptcha puzzle. The road stuff being clicked at the beginning of the gif is just to show an example of what exactly is being solved by the command line.
(So only command line is actually seen, beginning is just for clarity of what kind of captcha is being solved in command-line)

[pblank12]

A bit more in depth explanation : The normal process is as follows: when someone is done clicking all the roads (and solved it correctly), a hash is computed , which you can either submit manually (depending on the website using the recaptcha) by clicking a button or it is automatically submitted (trough for example javascript) -> when someone is done solving the ReCaptcha the solution is translated to a hash string; usually called "g-recaptcha-response" : the "thing" that is being submitted is exactly this hash (a string of symbols and characters) that is considered the solution of the google recaptcha.
The command line example solves a recaptcha on a test website (once again the beginning of the gif was just as an example of what the script will be bypassing) and then returns the "g-recaptcha-response"/hash solution, at which point, this can be used and submitted by your web-scraping application; enabling you to bypass the recaptcha puzzle(because you are submitting the correct response).
There are some variations of these kinds of captcha but this is typically the most used next to the normal image captcha.

[pblank12]

TorguardVPN Fully implemented

[synctext]

Quick feedback on the final presentation:

• Headless Selenium
• captcha wrapper
• no end-to-end demo (stacktraces and failed URL requests)