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Ask HN: Any good resources for creating a blockchain?

8 points by jklein11 ↗ HN
I'm interested in learning about how blockchains work. I see there is alot of information on cryptocurrencies but I know there are other applications for blockchain. Have you found any good resources? Some kind of how-to or tutorial would be awesome!

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PaulHoule
One option would be to work with Ethereum. You can boot up your own instance of it and write your own applications that run in it.
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quickthrower2
Mine is still "booting up" i.e. downloading the block chain. It's been a month.
sova
Can you find stable mirrors for the first N gigabytes?
dozzie
Start with a tutorial for cryptography. If you are dilettante in cryptography in general, whatever you do with blockchain will be broken by design.
jklein11
Any good cryptography tutorials you can recommend?
neboysa
Check out hyperledger.org - Fabric (a blockchain implementation) and Composer (tool to build apps/network on top of Fabric). Docs are pretty good, and there are no built-in currencies, coins, tradings and similar crap. And it is relatively easy to have it up and running locally and to deploy custom code on it (it is Go)