This project is a basic blockchain written in Python. It is a set of blocks that are linked together in such a way that the information they store is impossible to modify (and more and more difficult as more blocks are joined to the blockchain).
The PoW (Proof of Work) algorithm is used to mine every block in this blockchain. Its purpose is to find a hash of all the data saved in the blocks that meets certain criteria. For this purpose, each block has a variable data called nonce ...
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