Build a blockchain protocol for a distributed ledger

Demystifying blockchain through a simple coding examples

James Hope
Towards Data Science
3 min readAug 5, 2019

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In this post I am going to build a simple distributed ledger using a blockchain, expanding on tutorials by CodeAcademy and others to explain some of the key mechanisms around blockchain and how they might be implemented in Python.

An quick overview of…

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