Foundations of Blockchain

Running the blockchain nodes

Although each node has two handlers, one each for the HTTP and WebSocket interfaces. A single web server application instance is sufficient to serve both of them. Sanic uses uvloop as a scheduler. It asynchronously handles the requests:

if __name__ == '__main__': 
 
    server = Server() 
    server.app.add_task(server.connect_to_peers(initialPeers)) 
    server.app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=port, debug=True) 

The server application is instantiated, and a task is created to connect the node to initialPeers, which is hardcoded by each node. The application will use the default port to create a web server.

Each node will run the server application to join the network. As soon as the node connects to one of the peers, its blockchain ...