How to use block chain from distributed_db.py?

[apatra9]

When i run it, i only see the pong messages list. I want to run the distributed systems package and see the blockchain transactions and the winner of each round, how can I show it? Please help!

[florianmorath]

If you run the distributed_db module on multiple peers they will connect to each other and represent a distributed key-value store.
To see the messages of the piChain protocol, which include the blockchain transactions, you can send a command that sets a key-value pair to one of the peers. You can for example connect to a node using telnet:

telnet localhost 8000
#  persist the key-value pair key1: 200
put key1 200 

Also make sure that you have TESTING = true in the piChain/config.py module otherwise logging messages are omitted.