Foundations of Blockchain

Creating a blockchain

Now that we have defined all the required functionalities of a simple blockchain linker, we'll emulate one by creating both a few blocks and a blockchain:

new_chain = Blockchain() 
new_chain.add_block(data="first block data") 
new_chain.add_block(data="second block data") 
new_chain.add_block(data="third block data") 
 
print(json.dumps(new_chain.chain))
 
new_chain.reset() 
 
new_chain.add_block(data="first block data") 
new_chain.add_block(data="second block data") 
new_chain.add_block(data="third block data") 
 
print(json.dumps(new_chain.chain))

The preceding code snippet creates a Blockchain object and adds three blocks to it, along with an existing genesis block. This operation is performed again after resetting the blockchain. ...