Let's build the final endpoint for our blockchain API: the mine endpoint, this will mine and create a new block:
- To create a new block, we are going to use our createNewBlock method, which we already defined in our blockchain.js file. Let's go to our api.js file and create a new block inside the /mine endpoint:
app.get('/mine', function(req, res) { const newBlock = bitcoin.createNewBlock();});
- This createNewBlock method takes in three parameters: nonce, previousBlockHash, and hash:
Blockchain.prototype.createNewBlock = function(nonce, previousBlockHash, hash) { const newBlock = { index: this.chain.length + 1, timestamp: Date.now(), transactions: this.pendingTransactions, nonce: nonce, hash: hash, previousBlockHash: ...
