If you’re interested in blockchains and cryptocurrencies, then you’ve probably heard of hashing (or hashes). The idea of hashing is crypto-bedrock—a crucial ingredient in blockchain infrastructure. In this chapter you’ll gain a working knowledge of hashing and why it’s so important.
Project setup
In the spirit of learning by doing, we’re going to create a new project which we’ll build upon incrementally, chapter by chapter. We’ll call it funcoin:
$ poetry new funcoin
Hop into the funcoin folder:
$ cd funcoin
The funcoin folder should look like this:
.
├── funcoin
│ └── ...
