About The Project

This is a blockchain project from scratch , using the custom made blockchain have created a cryptocurrency.

The project features:

• P2P connections to create a blockchain

To install

Run

npm install .

To Run test

npm run test

How to use

You can open two terminal

Terminal 1 : npm run dev
Terminal 2 : HTTP_PORT=3002 P2P_PORT=5002 PEERS=ws://localhost:5001  npm run dev

This ports were given for an exampple, you can use any

You can head over to cURL or Postman to check the blocks in the blockchain:

curl --location --request GET 'http://<host>:<port>/blocks'

To mine a block in blockchain:

curl --location --request POST 'http://<host>:<port>/mine' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "data" : "your data"
}'

Functional Requirements

• To create a distributed and decentrilized blockchain
• To implement POW algo
• To use SHA256 algo to generate hash
• To implement variable mine rate