All purpose blockchain that can be used for any type of private ledger.
NOTE: Still a work in progress.
My vision for this project is to have it be used to enable everyone to use blockchain technology to ensure the entegrity of any process that they are responsible for.
What does that mean? Simply that with deploying pychain into your production pipeline, you will be adding an immutable record to any process that you generate. Not only will this make all of your transactions transparent, but will also allow anyone with access to your system to verify the integrity your product.
The Transaction Class will be very generic so that it can be used in any application. A generic Transaction object will have the following features:
- trans_id: ID for the Transaction
- user_id: ID of the user creating the Transaction
- subject_id: ID of the subject that is affected by the Transaction
- desc: Description for the Transaction
- payload: A json object with all of the details of the transaction.
The Block Class will take your transaction object and adds it to the Block. The Block objects will have the following features:
- index: ID for the Block
- timestamp: Creation date
- transactions: A list of Transaction objects.
- previous_hash: The hash of the previous Block
- hash: The hash of this Block
This class will bring it all together. When a Blockchain object is created, you will have the option of loading an existing Blockchain. This will allow anyone authorized to be able to join the blockchain at anytime. It will also have the option to add other nodes that are already part of the network. These options by default will not be used, allowing for the pychain to be used in a private network without it being to be distributed.
This is what it will be able to do:
- Instantiate a new Blockchain
- Generate a Genesis Block for new Blockchain
- Add network nodes
- Load existing Blockchains
- Add new Blocks and generate new Block ID's
- Validate Blocks
- Display the Blockchain for review
- Consensus of the most current Blockchain with all other nodes on the network, if any