Blockchain Simulation: A Web Application for IT Education

Abstract

Although blockchain technology is gaining popularity, there is no clear guideline or widely available education tool for amateurs to learn this new technology. In this research project, we build a web-based simulation to serve as an educational tool on blockchain technology. As a simulative web application, it is to be used to help IT students (particularly computer science students) understand the basic structure of blockchain and why it can be considered as a decentralized system. We describe theoretical aspects and architecture of the developed web application, and present sample execution to explain how it works.