Several days ago, I learned the blockchain techniques from the online lectures Blockchain: techniques and applications, taught by Zhen Xiao from PKU. I was deeply attracted by the beauty of the underlying principles of the blockchain. To test the effect of learning, I build a light-weight blockchain (named lightChain) starting from scratch in this repo. When writing lightChain, I refer to several open-source projects such as the famous go-ethereum, the bitcoin/bitcoin , and several guidance-oriented blogs (see references).
In lightChain, we basically use PoW for the mining of new blocks. I may add the implementation of PoS and some other variants in the future. It depends. :-)
| Steps | Contents | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Add the blockchain cores | |
| 2 | Update the cli | |
| 3 | Publish the executable and docker image |