/achi-blockchain

Primary LanguagePythonApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

achi-blockchain

Achi is a modern cryptocurrency built from scratch, designed to be efficient, decentralized, and secure. Here are some of the features and benefits:

  • Proof of space and time based consensus which allows anyone to farm with commodity hardware
  • Very easy to use full node and farmer cli (thousands of nodes active on mainnet)
  • Simplified UTXO based transaction model, with small on chain state
  • Lisp-style turing complete functional for money related use cases
  • BLS keys and aggregate signatures (only one signature per block)
  • Support for light clients with fast, objective syncing
  • A growing community of farmers and developers around the world

Python 3.7+ is required. Make sure your default python version is >=3.7 by typing python3.

If you are behind a NAT, it can be difficult for peers outside your subnet to reach you when they start up. You can enable UPnP on your router or add a NAT (for IPv4 but not IPv6) and firewall rules to allow TCP port 9975 access to your peer. These methods tend to be router make/model specific.