Project for the Introduction to cryptography's course: A simplified cryptocurrency.

To run the different components first setup a virtualenv and install the requirements.

To install virtualenv (on Ubuntu):

sudo apt install virtualenv

Create a new virtualenv crypto.

virtualenv .venv/crypto

Activate the virtualenv

source .venv/crypto/bin/activate

Install the packages requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Make sure you run those commands in the virtualenv with the requirements

The master node must be ran before the relay nodes

Run the master node on http://127.0.0.1:8000/master

bash simplcrypto.sh master

Run (multiple) relay node on http://127.0.0.1:800X/relay

bash simplcrypto.sh relay X

Where X is the relay number. For example to run 2 relay nodes on 8001 and 8002:

bash simplcrypto.sh relay 1

bash simplcrypto.sh relay 2

The wallet is a web-app, available on http://127.0.0.1:5000

cd wallet
python wallet-webapp.py

The created/used addresses are store in the directory addresses/

The miner is a command line application using a config file.

Setup the address (to be rewarded) and the relay url in miner/config.json then start the miner

cd miner
python miner.py