interplanaria / bottle

Bitcoin Browser

Bottle

A Bitcoin Browser

Did you know that you can upload files directly to the Bitcoin network, as permanent, immutable, and monetizable Bitcoin transactions?

These files can be all sorts of things like documents, images, and videos, and can be combined to make other things, like applications or interactive pages.

With files, you can publish things that reference one another through URI schemes.

And because it's on the blockchain, ownership is provable, the content is permanent, and it can be directly monetized forever.

Bottle is a browser that lets you surf the Bitcoin network for these things, and brings them all together through Bitcoin native URI schemes such as B:// or C:// (or any other protocols we add in the future).

Note that the address bar below uses a b:// address:, not HTTP or HTTPS. This HTML file is 100% hosted and served from the Bitcoin blockchain, and has nothing to do with where a "server" is located.

Download

You can download it at https://bottle.bitdb.network

How it Works

Learn more about how it works at: https://bottle.bitdb.network

Contribute

Contribution is welcome.

How to Build

1. Download Electron

You can build from source. You need electron.

npm install -g electron

2. Install

Download the repository and install. First, clone it.

git clone https://github.com/interplanaria/bottle.git

Then install dependencies

cd bottle
npm install

3. Run

npm start

bottle's Issues

Feature request: Browser Extension

I think Bottle is great however to get more adoption a browser extension would be nicer as additional software is a pita.

async script error

It fails to render if a script tag is declared async.

c://ab50f2f3a3ef200bcb3826dd79902c093a0fa9aac0d07a5623ffbc8ff3691fca

Better display of files

The home page could display the file list better.

For example metalens posts shouldn't show up as |

Sticker

Self closing tags should work with both > and />

a Meta tag that doesn't close with /> is failing. This shouldn't happen.

c://dae2bf6beda6ad5c70336fd02170f8ec13427b08d0890152ee1b0dd4e5e0a715

PDF Rendering is broken

It used to work, so it should be possible to get it to work again

Investigate using the filename as the tab title

Currently URIs are used as the tab name.

Look into using the filename if specified.

Allow drag-copy of URL (currently it drags the entire window)

Clicking and dragging the URL bar does not highlight the URL but instead drags the entire window.

Expected:

User should be able to drag-copy the URL

Actual:

The user is unable to drag-copy the URL and instead the entire window is dragged

http://g.recordit.co/b85lM0GF02.gif

No name shown when no name given

As name is optional for the B:// protocol any B:// with a piped protocol (but no name) will have | in the same location as the name.

Bottle should make sure that a | the 4th index followed by a valid address on the 5th, or | the 5th index followed by a valid address on the 6th index results in no name being shown

A neat feature for the future could be to show the first headline found in the document when it has been loaded into bottle.

CJK/UTF8 content display issues.

c://781057552bb570374ed85ef8bc4dd138c6b8e45e475ae2c7e1f5e77d8dde68d2/ as an example, seems like character encoding issues.
It's fine in the list.

iframe in a page changes the URL in the address bar

Whenever there's an iframe embedded on a web page, it changes the URL to the iframe address. This shouldn't happen.

Autocomplete Address Bar

enter tx hash and auto-infer available protocols and dispaly

a small change regarding the web background for improved legibility

The background in https://bottle.bitdb.network/ feels pretty distractiing for reading. I believe it looks way better after removing the background rule from html and adding it instead to the header, unfixed:

background: url(texture.png) no-repeat center center;

Delayed page load results in incorrect address on the address bar

If page A takes long time to load, and I switch to tab B while tab A is loading, the address bar of the tab B changes to the tab A's URL after it finishes loading

Last event was 4 months ago.

Last event was 4 months ago

Did endpoints change with the Genesis release?

Any plans for future development?

Fix endpoint template

The URI resolver currently adds a trailing slash at the end, which makes it break on URIs that do not end with a template expression.

For example

/file/8ce0d8819fc2db5d48bd6a5fbcf4b670fbdfc0fa23783c7e980849c8481310b9//raw

This bug is not visible when the endpoints end with the ${key} expression but in this case it's problematic because the URI ends with ${key}/raw, and the ${key} gets replaced with a trailing /, resulting ing double slashes.

URL bar inconvenience

On settings and home page, the URL bars are disabled so can't type anything. At least the home page needs some way to type in URL

Bookmark manual add requires an app restart

If I go to the bookmarks tab and try to manually add a bookmark, the newly added bookmark is not applied until i restart the app.

Anyone familiar with .appimage?

Anyone compiling for linux?

Customizable Homepage

Maybe could start with customizable sidebar tab, or also could think about rearranging the layout

Add C:// authenticity validator

Add a C:// sha256 validator. Could be implemented in a couple of different ways

1. Synchronous: Block the response if the hash doesn't match
2. Asynchronous: Load all, but display a warning if the hash and the content don't match

nice to haves

adding filesize info.

Local Router

Previous versions let you manually enter a route transformer so it was possible to use things like Minigate https://github.com/monkeylord/MiniGate

Not only bring this back, but also bring it back it super charged.