Common Lisp Blockchain - Scheme Coin

[Burton Samograd]

Hi David,

An attempt at humour? No, not intentionally! haha But anything I can do that can make people laugh is good in my books.

It’s a somewhat serious ‘rough sketch’ of a working blockchain (at least I think it’s working) and an example of how such a system would work; a springboard.  I got a bit creative with the addition of a Scheme interpreter in an attempt to make the system ‘useful’ rather than ‘wasteful’.  It’s incomplete, i know that at this point, but I thought I would share.  Writing explanatory blockchains is pretty hot right now.  I hope this one is simple (and correct!) enough to show the concepts in a familiar language.

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Burton Samograd

> On Dec 18, 2017, at 4:00 PM, David McClain <dbm at refined-audiometrics.com> wrote:
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> Well, I thought, after delving deeper into the code, that it might be some kind of sophisticated programmer humor, making a comment about the vast amount of CPU cycles devoted to nonsensical computing or some such… 
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> - DM
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>> On Dec 18, 2017, at 15:54, Pascal Bourguignon <pjb at informatimago.com <mailto:pjb at informatimago.com>> wrote:
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>>> On 18 Dec 2017, at 23:31, David McClain <dbm at refined-audiometrics.com <mailto:dbm at refined-audiometrics.com>> wrote:
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>>> umm… was this supposed to be some kind of joke? I’ll bite... I don’t get it. I was actually hoping to learn something here...
>>> 
>>> But the code does look rather peculiar on close inspection. Why the use of macros for pushing new transaction blocks? And the conversions to octet vectors may work for strings, but not in general for arbitrary integer or float values…
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>>> If it is supposed to be a joke, I’ll chuckle and just chuck the code…
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>> I guess not: https://dev.to/damcosset/trying-to-understand-blockchain-by-making-one-ce4 <https://dev.to/damcosset/trying-to-understand-blockchain-by-making-one-ce4>
>> It’s like, everybody will be busy implementing blockchains.  It’s the new fizz-buzz…
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>> -- 
>> __Pascal J. Bourguignon__
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