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https://github.com/anders94/blockchain-demo
A web-based demonstration of blockchain concepts.
https://github.com/anders94/blockchain-demo
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A web-based demonstration of blockchain concepts.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/anders94/blockchain-demo
- Owner: anders94
- License: mit
- Created: 2016-11-04T16:54:36.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-10T04:53:14.000Z (25 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-19T06:37:04.520Z (16 days ago)
- Topics: bitcoin, blockchain, blockchain-technology
- Language: Pug
- Homepage:
- Size: 475 KB
- Stars: 5,211
- Watchers: 249
- Forks: 2,605
- Open Issues: 9
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Blockchain Demo
A web-based demonstration of blockchain concepts.
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_160oMzblY8)
This is a very basic visual introduction to the concepts behind a blockchain. We introduce
the idea of an immutable ledger using an interactive web demo that is available here:
http://andersbrownworth.com/blockchain/
## Setup
Get the code:
```
git clone https://github.com/anders94/blockchain-demo.git
```
Install dependencies:
```
cd blockchain-demo
npm install
```
Run the server:
```
npm start
```
OR
```
./bin/www
```
#For windows: if the above command didn't work, use this (make sure you have Node.js installed in your system):
```
node ./bin/www
```
Point a web browser at the demo:
```
http://localhost:3000
```
## Setup using Docker
Get the code:
```
git clone https://github.com/anders94/blockchain-demo.git
```
Run the Docker setup:
```
cd blockchain-demo
docker-compose up -d
```
Point a web browser at the demo:
```
http://localhost:3000
```
## Optional Configuration
You can adjust the "number of zeros" required by the demo by editing the first two lines of
`public/javascripts/blockchain.js`.
Because there are 16 possible characters in a hex value, each time you increment the difficulty
by one you make the puzzle 16 times harder. In my testing, a difficulty of 6 requires a
maximumNonce well over 500,000,000.
If you adjust the difficulty above 4, blocks will show up as not mined because the demo data
assumes 4 zeros for a signed block. For example, on the `http://localhost:3000/block` page
with a difficulty of 6, the first nonce that works is `8719932` yielding a hash of
`000000669445c22167511857d8f3b822b331c3342f25dfdcb326e35c1a7aa267`. This gets out of hand fairly
quickly though. Here's some time estimates at the various thresholds.
|digits|nonce|time estimate|
|------|-------|-------------|
|4|500,000|15 minutes
|5|8,000,000|4 hours
|6|128,000,000|3 days
|7|2,048,000,000|a month
|8|32,768,000,000|2 years
|9|524,288,000,000|30 years
|10|8,388,608,000,000|481 years
|11|134,217,728,000,000|7,690 years
|12|2,147,483,648,000,000|123,036 years
|13|34,359,738,368,000,000|1,968,581 years
|14|549,755,813,888,000,000|31,497,291 years
|15|8,796,093,022,208,000,000|503,956,662 years
In the production bitcoin blockchain, block `458,091` has the hash digest
`00000000000000000000011246f099d94f91628d71c9d75ad2f9a06e2beb7e92`. That's 21 zeros in a row!
That one block would take this software approximately 8,454,989,768,407,765 years to mine.
### Public Private Key Demo
The 2nd part of the 101 session:
* https://github.com/anders94/public-private-key-demo
## Send Thanks
Bitcoin gratefully accepted: `1K3NvcuZzVTueHW1qhkG2Cm3viRkh2EXJp`