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2022-01-08 r/3556 feat(wpcarro/scratch): create a proof-of-concept blockchain serverWilliam Carroll1-0/+263
> You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study > to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything. You > learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by > experimenting. > - Richard Feynman In the spirit of learning by doing, I decided to implement a simple blockchain server. More work remains, but I'm tired after working on this for ~2-3h. I'd like to reimplement this from memory using a statically typed language like Haskell. I'd also like to implement node discovery (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Client_Node_Discovery) because that is still something I don't quite understand. But I'm signing-off for now... Change-Id: I74f424e7f52ffbf81eaad420d7d5205da66d33b5 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/4802 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: wpcarro <wpcarro@gmail.com> Autosubmit: wpcarro <wpcarro@gmail.com>