blockchain.js

A blockchain command-line interface built with JavaScript.

🎉 Features

• 💎 Blocks with index, hash, data, and timestamp.
• ⛏ Proof-of-work system.
• ⛓ In-memory JavaScript array to store the blockchain.
• ✅ Block integrity validation.
• 📡 Decentralized and distributed peer-to-peer communication.

📦 Installation

To install this application, you'll need Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer. From your command line:

NPM

$ npm install blockchain.js -g
$ blockchain

Source

You'll need Git to run the project from source. From your command line:

# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/seanseany/blockchain.js

# Go into the repository
$ cd blockchain.js

# Install dependencies
$ npm install

# Run the app
$ npm start

⚒️ Built With

• Varpol - Interactive node CLI
• Peer Exchange - Peer to peer communication
• Crypto-js - Crypto library for hashing blocks

🎫 License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details

🙏 Acknowledgments

• This article written by Lauri Hartikka.
• Original repo by Lauri Hartikka
• Antony Jone's fork for refactoring.
• Nick Fallon fork for PoW implementation.
• Logo designed by Muammark / Freepik.