First week is complete, and quite a lot of progress has been made. From a single go file that made a single sha3 hash to the ability to generate blocks, save them in leveldb, create dummy transactions and update the UTXO set.
Next week I should be able to complete the single node alpha: having a node that can generate blocks via PoS, update its UTXO set, and restart from storage. From there I will start working on the rpc, networking and validation portions for the full alpha protocol. With luck, by the end of Q1 there will be something you can download and run!
You can always follow my progress on gitlab here
If anyone wants to pitch in at this early stage, I’ll see what I can do. If you’re an expert in Go, I could probably still use a few pointers 