Summary

The main purpose of this chapter was to present the basic steps for creating a cryptocurrency by shamelessly cloning Bitcoin. Although it only scratches the surface of building cryptocurrencies,this chapter was an opportunity to enrich your knowledge of the Bitcoin protocol and also provided a short initiation to understanding Bitcoin's source code.

This chapter concludes our short excursion into the land of Bitcoin; I hope you enjoyed it. Again, here's the GitHub repository: https://github.com/bellaj/Readercoin_.git.You can catch up on any things you may have missed, or just get a better look at the code. If you face any issues, you can make a pull request.

In the next chapter, we'll continue our learning journey with blockchain technology by diving deep into the very promising project, Ethereum, which is often referred to as Blockchain 2.0.