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-# HW 1 Build a Blockchain in Python
-
-Python notebook that walks through how to create a blockchain from scratch using Object-Oriented Programming and Hash functions.
-
-Created by Omkar Shanbhag, Updated by Simon Guo
-
-### About 
-
-This notebook is meant to be a short introduction to Blockchain implementations, aimed at helping us take the topics we learn about in fundamentals, and seeing how they translate to code. 
-
-In this notebook we will implement various different aspects of Blockchain technology that we understand including: 
-
-- The Blockchain Data Structure using OOP 
-- A proof of work simulation 
-- Understanding of the concept of difficulty of finding the next block hash 
-- A simulation of multiple miners with varying computational powers 
-- A bit of data analytics to see if what we've implemented makes sense 
-
-
-
-### Getting Started
-
-Make sure you have `Python 3` and `Jupyter Notebook` installed.
-
-If you are missing packages, please use `pip` to install them.
-
-You might need to install package `ipyparallel` . You can do so by ` pip install ipyparallel`. 
-
-You should be able to open the Jupyter notebook from terminal by typing `jupyter notebook` in the `hw1` directory.
-
-
-
-### Instruction and Check Off
-
-Carefully read through the descriptions in each section. Fill out the skeleton code, demonstrate that you can pass the tests, and answers the short questions.
-
-Once you are done, please show any instructor so we can get you checked off.
-
+# HW 1 Build a Blockchain in Python
+
+Python notebook that walks through how to create a blockchain from scratch using Object-Oriented Programming and Hash functions.
+
+Created by Omkar Shanbhag, Updated by Simon Guo
+
+### About 
+
+This notebook is meant to be a short introduction to Blockchain implementations, aimed at helping us take the topics we learn about in fundamentals, and seeing how they translate to code. 
+
+In this notebook we will implement various different aspects of Blockchain technology that we understand including: 
+
+- The Blockchain Data Structure using OOP 
+- A proof of work simulation 
+- Understanding of the concept of difficulty of finding the next block hash 
+- A simulation of multiple miners with varying computational powers 
+- A bit of data analytics to see if what we've implemented makes sense 
+
+
+
+### Getting Started
+
+Make sure you have `Python 3` and `Jupyter Notebook` installed.
+
+If you are missing packages, please use `pip` to install them.
+
+You might need to install package `ipyparallel` . You can do so by ` pip install ipyparallel`. 
+
+You should be able to open the Jupyter notebook from terminal by typing `jupyter notebook` in the `hw1` directory.
+
+
+
+### Instruction and Check Off
+
+Carefully read through the descriptions in each section. Fill out the skeleton code, demonstrate that you can pass the tests, and answers the short questions.
+
+Once you are done, please show any instructor so we can get you checked off.
+