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Blockchain Rust

Blockchain Rust is an MIT-licensed Rust educational implementation of a simplified Bitcoin-style blockchain, organized as a series of learning steps and operated through a command-line interface.

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Understand the project

Practical overview

When it fits

Use it when learning how blockchain components are represented in a Rust implementation, or when following the README's command examples for basic wallet, transaction, balance, node and miner operations.

Who it is for

  • Rust learners studying blockchain implementation.
  • Developers exploring proof of work, transactions, wallet addresses and signatures, persistence, and peer-to-peer networking.
  • Learners who want to examine node and miner interactions in a small blockchain demo.

Documented uses

  • Study blockchain concepts through a progression of Rust implementation examples.
  • Create a wallet and blockchain, send coins, and query an address balance using CLI commands.
  • Start a node or miner process to explore networking and mining concepts.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The repository is public and identifies an MIT license. Its documented usage is through Cargo CLI commands.

  • The project is a learning demo rather than a general-purpose wallet service.
  • The tutorial sequence covers proof of work, persistence, addresses and signatures, transactions, and networking.
  • The README's documented commands include wallet creation, blockchain creation, coin sending, balance queries, and node or miner startup.
  • Chinese documentation is listed for the basic prototype and proof-of-work material.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Use the documented CLI operations

Explore wallet, blockchain, transaction, balance, node and miner commands shown in the README.

Before you start

  • Rust project source and Cargo, to run the documented cargo run commands.
  • An address for blockchain creation; a sender, recipient and amount for the send command.

Steps

  1. Run the command below to create a wallet.

    Documented command
    cargo run createwallet

  2. Run the command below to create a blockchain.

    Documented command
    cargo run createblockchain

  3. Run the command below to send coins; add -m to mine the block immediately on the same node.

    Documented command
    cargo run send

  4. Run the command below to query a balance, or start a node with the command below or a miner with the command below.

    Documented command
    cargo run getbalance
    Documented command
    cargo run startnode
    Documented command
    cargo run startminer

  5. Set RUST_LOG=info to print log output.

Expected outcome

The README documents commands for the listed wallet, blockchain, transaction, balance, node and miner operations.

Guide limitations

  • The README does not detail parameter formats beyond the displayed placeholders.
  • The guide describes README instructions, not a separately verified execution.
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