Shard Mainnet

Node due for a rewrite please do not host a node (we will make nodes into docker containers soon)

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🎯 About

Three words define Shard and our organization - privacy, security and transparency. Shard is designed to be a human readable, decentralized cryptocurrency. As it makes sure that everyone's privacy belongs to themselves.

• Ticker: SHRD

• Max supply: ♾ SHRD

• Block reward: 10.5 SHRD

• Ideal Block time: 5 Minutes

• PoW, based on pyskein and groestlcoin_hash

✨ Features

✔️ Not a lazy Bitcoin fork
✔️ Decentralized
✔️ Feeless transactions
✔️ Super easy to mine and get started with!

🚀 Technologies

The following tools were used in this project:

• Python
• Web3.py
• FastAPI

✅ Requirements

Before starting 🏁, you need to have Git and Python installed.

🏁 Starting

# Clone this project
$ git clone https://github.com/Sentinel-Technologies/shard-mainnet.git

# cd into the cloned repo
$ cd Shard mainnet

# Install dependencies
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

# IMPORTANT: Edit data in config.yaml
$ nano node/data/config.yaml # notepad node/data/config.yaml on Windows

$ cd node && python3 start.py #	start.bat on Windows

🚫 Common issues

If you are using Windows and have an error trying to install web3. Please install Microsoft C++ Build Tools

Please, if you are facing issues with dependencies and installed them manually, delete everything and use pip3 install -r requirements.txt

📝 License

This project is under the MIT license. For more details, see the LICENSE file.

Made with ❤️ by SuperPythonGuy.
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Thanks to those who've hosted a Node!

This project would've not reached this far without your support! ❤️