Blockchain Python tutorial

Source Code for my blog post: A Practical Introduction to Blockchain with Python

Important: This project is for educational purposes only and the source code shouldn't be use in production as it doesn't have good security, doesn't scale well and lacks many important features.

The github repository contains a basic implementation of a blockchain and its client using Python. This blockchain has the following features:

The blockchain client has the following features:

This github repository also contains 2 dashboards:

Works with Python 3.6
Anaconda's Python distribution contains all the dependencies for the code to run.

To start a blockchain node, go to blockchain folder and execute the command below: python blockchain.py -p 5000
You can add a new node to blockchain by executing the same command and specifying a port that is not already used. For example, python blockchain.py -p 5001
TO start the blockchain client, go to blockchain_client folder and execute the command below: python blockchain_client.py -p 8080
You can access the blockchain frontend and blockchain client dashboards from your browser by going to localhost:5000 and localhost:8080