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W.-M. LeeBeginning Ethereum Smart Contracts Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5086-0_2

2. Implementing Your Own Blockchain Using Python

Wei-Meng Lee1 
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Ang Mo Kio, Singapore
 

In the previous chapter, you learned about the basics of blockchain – the motivations behind blockchains, how transactions are added to blocks, and how blocks are added to the previous blocks to form a chain of blocks called blockchain. A good way to understand all these concepts would be to build one yourself. By implementing your own blockchain, you will have a more detailed look at how concepts like transactions, mining, and consensus work.

Obviously, implementing a full blockchain is not for the faint of heart, and that is definitely not our ...

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