Discussion on: Trying to understand blockchain by making one!

[eva]

That is absolutely brilliant, Damien. Nothing like seeing it with your own eyes in order to understand it. Many thanks :-)

To help out anyone who is not at all familiar with node (hello, anyone there? ;-) ) here's a very simple way to run this:

1. Create a folder.
2. In it, create both files index.js and blockchain.js as instructed in the article. Copy & paste respective code.
3. Get a command prompt or a terminal to the folder that contains both files.
4. Run npm init -y (this will create the package.json file)
5. Run npm install js-sha256 (this will install the required module and update package.json)
6. Just run the project with node index.js

Hope it helps.