Dev Roadmap

• finish chainstate checks #10
• remove transactions from pool on adding block #59
• mining for number of cycles to allow fast suspending #60
• write test-suites for basic blockchain #57 #58
• increment transaction nonce for every outgoing transaction #70
• add fee to transaction #83
• check public key length in transaction validity #84
• validate difficulty target #85
• refactor chain to be map of blocks, traverse top to bottom #88

release 0.1-local-blockchain

• sync ping-pong example #41 #52
• manually add peers #53
• provide get all peers endpoint #78
• provide get_info endpoint #69
• periodic check for peers current block hash #77
• broadcast new block to all peers #75
• broadcast new transactions to all peers #68
• provide get_block_by_hash endpoint #76
• format addresses in json as base58 #86
• continue mining on newest block, if received #80
• implement initial sync from latest block to genesis block
• ignore own peer in handling peers #79
• recognize invalid chain
• implement nakamoto consensus, follow longest valid chain
• endpoint to fetch balance from chainstate account #89
• endpoint to get transactions from pool concerning account #90
• add list of transactions concerning account to chainstate (block_hash, tx_hash) #91
• endpoint to get transactions concerning account from chain #92

release 0.2-synced-blockchain

• write blockchain and chainstate to disk on shutdown
• read blockchain and chainstate from disk on startup
• use rocksdb to read/write blocks by hash
• use rocksdb to read/write chainstate by address/pubkey

release 0.3-synced-persistent-blockchain