Great work. What I think it's missing (at least in the demo) is exactly how transactions are recorded and verified on the blockchain. When a block is successfully mined, the miner has the opportunity to include a bunch of transactions in that block, but how is that done?

This is Splendid. Cheers Sean🍻

Really awesome tutorial and helped a lot in understanding what everyone is talking about these days. A few issues I found: This doesn't make any sense to me. If you enter in a space to the data field, it moves the tutorial forward. Finally, the CPU usage is pretty unruly, but I read above that you're using the browser to mine it, so I suppose that's part of the tutorial that it'll cook your computer if you try to do this yourself. :)

This is cool. An easy way to demonstrate what blockchain is.

Nice job. Still a little complex even for tech savvy people but a good first step.

This is amazing stuff, thanks!

Is the http://blockchaindemo.io down lately? Gives me ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED..

"Bitcoin" not "BitCoin"

Can't believe I'm just finding this. This is really dope 👏...I find myself always taking a deep breath before trying to verbally explain something like this to a friend. Awesome way to demo!

This is really well executed Sean. As a visual learner this is *so* much easier to learn with than reading wikipedia or an article. Thanks for putting the time into this 🙌

Love this. Just tweeted it out. So much confusion in our space for new people. This was simple, smart and elegant.

Pros:

Simple interface. Fantastic intro explainer (don't skip!)

Cons:

Doesn't show how invalid blocks are created

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Nicely done!! step by step hands-on way to explain the blockchain!!

As someone writing his high school dissertation about Blockchain and its impact, getting a visual impression of the theoretical understanding I had so far is invaluable! Thank you for saving my high school dissertation!!

Great job! Congrats

Ha! Guys, how easy it is! Thank you! I'll keep it in mind ;)

Hello again Product Hunt! Blockchain Demo is my attempt at demystifying the technology behind cryptocurrencies. It has a living blockchain, a peer-to-peer network, and a user tour. The popularity of Blockchain CLI (https://github.com/seanseany/blo...) motivated me to build Blockchain Demo. This project is also inspired by https://anders.com/blockchain/ If you have any feedback, please let me know! The more people that understand the technology, the better! Thank you for tuning in! Sean

Overall. I think this has awesome potential for teaching your everyday developer about how blockchain technology works. (would say everyday person But im not sure if thats too far of a stretch) Good work!

Pros:

Takes a very complicated process and symplifies it with top level code examples along with written examples and diagrams

Cons:

UX is a little rough. Not being able to click off the tutroial to follow along is frustrating

This is really cool and educational! I can't say that I understand the entire technology behing the crypto world, but I definetly have a better understanding now!!! Thanks Sean!

This is cool. Finally someone has explained all of that blockchain stuff.