With the completion of the previous chapter, we are done building our blockchain. If you think about how much you have accomplished throughout the entirety of this book, it's pretty impressive.
We started with nothing, and from there, we built a blockchain data structure, followed by an API to interact with it. We then turned our API into a decentralized blockchain network, and synchronized the data across the entire network running on multiple different nodes.
We then created a consensus algorithm to make sure that the data on all of our nodes was synchronized and legitimate. Finally, we built a block explorer to explore our blockchain through a user interface. Throughout this entire book, we have built a lot of functionalities, as well as an awesome blockchain prototype.
One important thing that you must be aware of is that, throughout this book, we have...