What you will learn...

This book will help you to gain a deeper understanding of blockchain technology by building your own blockchain from scratch. Blockchain is a fairly new technology, and while it can seem tough and slightly overwhelming to learn at first, we're going to take a step-by-step approach and break it down in order to understand how it works under the hood. By the time you finish this book, you will have a very solid understanding of how blockchain technology works, and you will have built your own entire blockchain as well.

In this book, we will start by building the blockchain itself. At this point, we will build a blockchain data structure that has the following abilities: 

• Proofing work 
• Mining new blocks
• Creating transactions
• Validating the chain
• Retrieving address data and other functionalities

Thereafter, we will create an API or a server that will allow us to interact with our blockchain from the internet. Through our API, we will be able to use all of the functionality that we have built into our blockchain data structure.