Nothing very special today. I worked from 3:00 am till a bit later than 7:00 am! I was sleepy the whole session lol. Then slept at 8 am but bloody woke up at 12 for some odd reasons. I could not go back to sleep until 4:30 pm to wake up again at 8:30 pm to get ready for another shift from 9:00 pm until 01:00 am.

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This afternoon, while not being able to sleep, I decided I'd resume the development for my Javascript version of the POCKET's Confirmer Python code.

## What is POCKET?
POCKET stands for  Proof Of Concept Electronic Token (the K is silent).

> It is a sub-token designed to operate on the Steem blockchain and interact with its users through a simple set of commands which users can invoke via interfaces such as Steemit.com and Busy.org. Please see [the POCKET announcement on Steemit](https://steemit.com/pocket/@biophil/pocket-announcement) and [the POCKET Genesis Post](https://steemit.com/pocket/@biophil/genesis-pocket).

<sup>[Source](https://github.com/biophil/pocket)</sup>

POCKET is a project by @biophil. In a nutshell, it is a cryptocurrency that uses the STEEM blockchain as a base. It uses STEEM comments to execute commands such as sending tokens and confirming them.

The distribution of POCKET tokens has already stopped but many people still own some tokens and distributing them as tips via the comments. Here is an example:

![Screen Shot 2018-06-19 at 10.31.08 pm.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXpzmgoj7b4vD8qxfDDSuXPpExhm42ztYPf87RBdotE68/Screen%20Shot%202018-06-19%20at%2010.31.08%20pm.png)

In the screenshot above, @pode has decided to send 11 POCKET tokens to @ninegagbot. To do this he just wrote this in a comment on any post:
`pocketsend:11@ninegagbot, play around with the token of fun - POCKET!`

That command means is formatted as followed
`pocketsend:amount@recipient,MEMO`

Easy isn't it?

Now, POCKET still needs some kind of witnesses to verify transactions like this, they are called Confirmers. From the screenshot above, you could see a reply by @pocket-node confirming that the transfer of 11 POCKET tokens has been successful and that 1 POCKET token has been retained by @pocket-node as a confirmation fee.

## POCKET-JS
I've been interested in this Proof Of Concept since I discovered it when I spotted a `pocketsend` command on one of @livvu's amazing art posts. After several discussion with @biophil, I decided I would port his Confirmer code from Python to Javascript (NodeJS). I've started working on it a while ago but got busy with other stuffs. Today, I managed to get some time and resume it a little bit. It is still not running yet, so far those have been ported:
- the database
- the constants
- the validator
- the voter class

I still need to complete these:
- the confirmer class
- sending comments and upvotes to the STEEM blockchain
- linking all the classes together

There are also unit tests on the database and validator codes.

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