If you've ever been asked how blockchains work, you'll know that it usually requires some pen and paper demonstration. Often times, people are still left wondering exactly what a blockchain's primary function is. Well, I have started developing a site specifically for that conversation (and because I was really bored yesterday). So, here it is, StrongBoxCoin.com
StrongBoxCoin.com is just a simple, single-instance example of a functioning blockchain. It is not peer-to-peer; although, I'm considering making it work that way as well for fun. It is Proof-of-Work driven where the difficulty is simply how many leading zeroes are in the hashes. It also sets it's own difficulty as more blocks are discovered. When blocks of a higher difficulty than required are discovered, there is a bonus reward to the miner. This really serves no purpose other than it seemed like a good idea at the time.
I'll probably put up source code and whatnot after I have all the kinks worked out (right now there's no safety for things like sending funds from the same wallet to the same wallet, which will still charge a fee but will also make the mining system extremely gameable and broken. I'll also be adding a tutorial and tooltips at some point to go into more detail about how it all works behind the UI.
For now, I hope it's at least entertaining.
