willassad / shockwave

Shockwave is a web-application cryptocurrency made in python.

Shockwave

Shockwave is a cryptocurrency made in python. It also contains a user interface where one can send money, deposit money, and view their current balance. Shockwave uses crytography (see blockchain.py) to send and verify transactions. Sending money will update the blockchain and each user's balances.

Getting Started

To get started simply download this repository.

From the command line:

$ git clone https://github.com/willassad/shockwave

Once downloaded, switch into the source folder and run app.py

$ cd shockwave # This may be different for you
$ python app.py

Shockwave cryptocurrency is now up and running!

Prerequisites

Install mySQL

Note: You may skip this if you already have mySQL installed

$ brew install mysql 
$ brew tap homebrew/services
$ brew services start mysql
$ mysqladmin -u root password 'yourpassword' 

Configure mySQL

Start mySql session in terminal $ mysql -u root -p

Create database and tables

mysql> 
       CREATE DATABASE shockwave;
       use shockwave;
       CREATE TABLE users(name varchar(30), email varchar(30), username varchar(20), password varchar(50));
       CREATE TABLE blockchain(number varchar(30), hash varchar(68), previous varchar(68), data varchar(100), nonce varchar(30));

Configure Database Config File

Update Line 41 in app.py with the password saved above

If you are having troubles install mySql, you may use the link below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcpHkYfWarM

Dependencies

Make sure you have Python 3 installed. Install the following dependencies.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt 

# You can also install them manually

$ pip install Flask
  pip install simple-crypt
  pip install passlib
  pip install flask_mysqldb #mySql must be installed, see below
  pip install functools
  pip install wtforms

Built With

HTML - Front end web framework

CSS - Front end styling

JS - Backend framework

Python - Backend application

Authors

Will Assad - Entire Project

Devansh Kaloti - Installation Process

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details