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<p class="no_toc">These FAQs are intended for developers of Blockstack.</p>
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<li><a href="#im-a-web-developer--can-i-build-on-blockstack" id="markdown-toc-im-a-web-developer--can-i-build-on-blockstack">I’m a Web developer. Can I build on Blockstack?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#im-a-non-web-developer--can-i-build-on-blockstack" id="markdown-toc-im-a-non-web-developer--can-i-build-on-blockstack">I’m a non-Web developer. Can I build on Blockstack?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#whats-the-difference-between-a-web-app-and-a-blockstack-app" id="markdown-toc-whats-the-difference-between-a-web-app-and-a-blockstack-app">What’s the difference between a Web app and a Blockstack app?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#do-i-need-to-learn-any-new-languages-or-frameworks" id="markdown-toc-do-i-need-to-learn-any-new-languages-or-frameworks">Do I need to learn any new languages or frameworks?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#how-does-my-web-app-interact-with-blockstack" id="markdown-toc-how-does-my-web-app-interact-with-blockstack">How does my Web app interact with Blockstack?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#what-does-blockstackjs-do" id="markdown-toc-what-does-blockstackjs-do">What does <code class="highlighter-rouge">blockstack.js</code> do?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#how-do-i-use-blockstackjs" id="markdown-toc-how-do-i-use-blockstackjs">How do I use <code class="highlighter-rouge">blockstack.js</code>?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#how-can-i-look-up-names-and-profiles" id="markdown-toc-how-can-i-look-up-names-and-profiles">How can I look up names and profiles?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#how-can-i-read-my-public-app-data-without-blockstackjs" id="markdown-toc-how-can-i-read-my-public-app-data-without-blockstackjs">How can I read my public app data without <code class="highlighter-rouge">blockstack.js</code>?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#how-do-i-register-blockstack-ids" id="markdown-toc-how-do-i-register-blockstack-ids">How do I register Blockstack IDs?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#how-do-i-register-blockstack-subdomains" id="markdown-toc-how-do-i-register-blockstack-subdomains">How do I register Blockstack Subdomains?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#can-i-programmatically-register-blockstack-ids" id="markdown-toc-can-i-programmatically-register-blockstack-ids">Can I programmatically register Blockstack IDs?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#can-i-programmatically-register-blockstack-subdomains" id="markdown-toc-can-i-programmatically-register-blockstack-subdomains">Can I programmatically register Blockstack Subdomains?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#do-you-have-a-testnet-or-sandbox-to-experiment-with-blockstack" id="markdown-toc-do-you-have-a-testnet-or-sandbox-to-experiment-with-blockstack">Do you have a testnet or sandbox to experiment with Blockstack?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#does-blockstack-have-a-smart-contract-system" id="markdown-toc-does-blockstack-have-a-smart-contract-system">Does Blockstack have a smart contract system?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#can-blockstack-applications-interact-with-bitcoin-ethereum-smart-contracts-other-blockchains" id="markdown-toc-can-blockstack-applications-interact-with-bitcoin-ethereum-smart-contracts-other-blockchains">Can Blockstack applications interact with Bitcoin? Ethereum? Smart contracts? Other blockchains?</a></li>
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<h2 id="im-a-web-developer--can-i-build-on-blockstack">I’m a Web developer. Can I build on Blockstack?</h2>
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<p>Yes! Blockstack is geared primarily towards Web developers. All of your
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existing knowledge is immediately applicable to Blockstack. Anything you can do
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in a Web browser, you can do in a Blockstack app.</p>
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<h2 id="im-a-non-web-developer--can-i-build-on-blockstack">I’m a non-Web developer. Can I build on Blockstack?</h2>
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<p>Yes! Blockstack implements a <a href="https://core.blockstack.org">RESTful API</a> which
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lets you interact with Blockstack from any language and any runtime. In fact,
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the reference client
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(<a href="https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js">blockstack.js</a>) is mainly a
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wrapper around these RESTful API calls, so you won’t be missing much by using a
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language other than Javascript.</p>
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<h2 id="whats-the-difference-between-a-web-app-and-a-blockstack-app">What’s the difference between a Web app and a Blockstack app?</h2>
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<p>Blockstack apps are built like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application">single-page Web
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apps</a>—they are, in
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fact, a type of Web application.</p>
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<p>Blockstack apps are a subset of Web applications that use Blockstack’s
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technology to preserve the user’s control over their identities and data.
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As such, they tend to be simpler
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in design and operation, since in many cases they don’t have to host anything
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besides the application’s assets.</p>
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<h2 id="do-i-need-to-learn-any-new-languages-or-frameworks">Do I need to learn any new languages or frameworks?</h2>
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<p>No. Blockstack applications are built using existing Web frameworks and programming
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The only new thing you need to learn is either <a href="https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js">blockstack.js</a> or
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the <a href="https://core.blockstack.org">Blockstack RESTful API</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="how-does-my-web-app-interact-with-blockstack">How does my Web app interact with Blockstack?</h2>
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<p>The <a href="https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js">blockstack.js</a> library gives
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any Web application the ability to interact with Blockstack’s authentication and
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storage services. In addition, we supply a <a href="https://core.blockstack.org">public RESTful API</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="what-does-blockstackjs-do">What does <code class="highlighter-rouge">blockstack.js</code> do?</h2>
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<p>This is the reference client implementation for Blockstack. You use it in your
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Web app to do the following:</p>
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<li>Read other users’ public data</li>
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<h2 id="how-do-i-use-blockstackjs">How do I use <code class="highlighter-rouge">blockstack.js</code>?</h2>
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<p>Please see the API documentation <a href="https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js">here</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="how-can-i-look-up-names-and-profiles">How can I look up names and profiles?</h2>
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<p>You can use <code class="highlighter-rouge">blockstack.js</code>, or you can use the <a href="https://core.blockstack.org">public Blockstack Core
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endpoint</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="how-can-i-read-my-public-app-data-without-blockstackjs">How can I read my public app data without <code class="highlighter-rouge">blockstack.js</code>?</h2>
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<p>The URLs to a user’s public app data are in a canonical location in their
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profile. For example, here’s how you would get public data from the
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<a href="https://publik.ykliao.com">Publik</a> app, stored under the Blockstack ID <code class="highlighter-rouge">ryan.id</code>.</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Get the bucket URL
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<div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="gp">$ </span><span class="nv">BUCKET_URL</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="k">$(</span>curl -sL https://core.blockstack.org/v1/users/ryan.id | jq -r <span class="s1">'."ryan.id"["profile"]["apps"]["http://publik.ykliao.com"]'</span><span class="k">)</span><span class="s2">"</span>
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<span class="gp">$ </span><span class="nb">echo</span> <span class="s2">"</span><span class="nv">$BUCKET_URL</span><span class="s2">"</span>
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https://gaia.blockstack.org/hub/1FrZTGQ8DM9TMPfGXtXMUvt2NNebLiSzad/
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<li>Get the data
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<span class="o">[{</span><span class="s2">"id"</span>:0,<span class="s2">"text"</span>:<span class="s2">"Hello, Blockstack!"</span>,<span class="s2">"created_at"</span>:1515786983492<span class="o">}]</span>
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<h2 id="how-do-i-register-blockstack-ids">How do I register Blockstack IDs?</h2>
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<p>You should use the <a href="https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-browser">Blockstack Browser</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="how-do-i-register-blockstack-subdomains">How do I register Blockstack Subdomains?</h2>
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<p>You can deploy and use a <a href="/core/naming/subdomains.html">Blockstack Subdomain Registrar</a>, or
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use an existing one.</p>
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<h2 id="can-i-programmatically-register-blockstack-ids">Can I programmatically register Blockstack IDs?</h2>
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<p>Blockstack applications do not currently have
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have access to the user’s wallet. Users are expected to
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register Blockstack IDs themselves.</p>
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<p>However, if you feel particularly ambitious, you can do one of the following:</p>
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<li>
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<p>Set up a <code class="highlighter-rouge">blockstack api</code> endpoint (see the project <a href="https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core/blob/master/README.md">README</a>) and write a
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program to automatically register names. Also, see the <a href="https://blockstack.github.io/blockstack-core/#managing-names-register-a-name">API
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documentation</a>
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<p>Write a <code class="highlighter-rouge">node.js</code> program that uses <code class="highlighter-rouge">blockstack.js</code> to register
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names. This is currently in development.</p>
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<h2 id="can-i-programmatically-register-blockstack-subdomains">Can I programmatically register Blockstack Subdomains?</h2>
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blockchain that you can interact with, without having to spend any Bitcoin or
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<a href="https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core/blob/master/integration_tests/README.md">README</a> for details.</p>
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<h2 id="does-blockstack-have-a-smart-contract-system">Does Blockstack have a smart contract system?</h2>
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<p>No, not yet. This is because
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Blockstack’s design philosophy focuses on keeping system complexity at the
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“edges” of the network (e.g. clients), instead of the “core” of the network (e.g.
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the blockchain), in accordance with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_principle">end-to-end
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principle</a>.
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Generally speaking, this can be interpreted as “if you can do X without
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a smart contract, you should do X without a smart contract.” This organizing
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principle applies to a lot of useful decentralized applications.</p>
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<h2 id="can-blockstack-applications-interact-with-bitcoin-ethereum-smart-contracts-other-blockchains">Can Blockstack applications interact with Bitcoin? Ethereum? Smart contracts? Other blockchains?</h2>
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highlight: true, // whether matched words should be highlighted, default: true
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},
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smart404: { /* The caption of the search results. */
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caption: 'These links might be useful', /* The string in the title that identifies the page as a 404 page. */
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identifier: 'Page not found', /* A CSS selector that points to the area in which the alternative links should be shown. */
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resultSelector: '#ss360-404',
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}
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};
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</script>
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<script src="https://cdn.sitesearch360.com/sitesearch360-v11.min.js" async></script>
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</body>
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</html>
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