BloodMoney

This is a learning project, of making my own cryptocurrency.

Features

• Blockchain
  • Mining
  • Distributed networking (LAN)
  • Distributed networking (Not just LAN)
  • Decentralized (Not working that well atm)
  • Sync between instances (Not working that well atm)
• Wallet
  • Transactions
  • Balance
  • Mining reward

TODO

• Sync transactions from every note when adding a new block
• Add time stamp and message to transaction data
• Improve Decentralized network

How to run

Start instances

To start the instances, run the following commands in separate terminal windows:

FLASK_APP=app.py python app.py 5000
FLASK_APP=app.py python app.py 5001 http://127.0.0.1:5000
FLASK_APP=app.py python app.py 5002 http://127.0.0.1:5000

Usage

Mining

• HTTP Method: POST
• URL: http://127.0.0.1:5001/mine
• Body:

 {
    "wallet_address": "0c259295fed376b86376829a90fe08324db400b9fc6118af5c68254c43c4f2b9db887ac754a60822e35fde7292089a5d36fea8f4d69a9ea5cb2488bf768d0a95" 
 }

Wallet

Creating a wallet:

• HTTP Method: GET
• URL: http://127.0.0.1:5001/wallet/new

Get wallet balance:

• HTTP Method: GET
• URL: http://127.0.0.1:5001/wallet/balance/<wallet-address>

Example: http://127.0.0.1:5001/wallet/balance/0c259295fed376b86376829a90fe08324db400b9fc6118af5c68254c43c4f2b9db887ac754a60822e35fde7292089a5d36fea8f4d69a9ea5cb2488bf768d0a95

Make transaction

• HTTP Method: POST
• URL: http://127.0.0.1:5001/wallet/transaction
• Body:

{
    "sender_private_key": "e443639c77170069ed9c8ada7392aacaddc52ed7a7c1866cdd3b3e7b3267deb3",
    "recipient": "dc6f7debebefa8e73abbeba7cdf96d0ec9fbb82139959c7ddb7faf4c46e40ea3242ee3dec15148da244eb2f772116a25467d78b2e7677ffde0260b700b0384d3",
    "amount": "5"
}