Mining Getting Started

This section highlights mining behavior for the toy blockchain implementation.

Overview

• Blocks are mined via Blockchain.mine_pending_transactions() inside NodeService.mine_block().
• Mining rewards originate from a coinbase transaction (sender "0").
• Difficulty is configurable in qrl/core/blockchain.py (default difficulty=4).

Manual mining via wallet UI

1. Launch the wallet (python run_web_wallet.py).
2. Log in and click Mine Block (requires a wallet).
3. Pending transactions from the mempool are included, then rewards are credited to your address.

Programmatic mining

from qrl.services.node_service import NodeService

node = NodeService()
node.create_wallet()
node.mine_block()

For experiments, reduce difficulty or add fake transactions to observe reward halving logic.