Foundations of Blockchain

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

from Crypto.Hash import SHA256 hash_object = SHA256.new(data=b'First')print(hash_object.hexdigest())

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

from Crypto.Hash import SHA256 hash_object = SHA256.new(data=b'First')print(hash_object.hexdigest())

Any command-line input or output is written ...