Genesis files are the starting point of launching a private/custom chain and are used to define and configure a the new blockchain. The genesis file defines parameters of your private chain. If you wanted to change the block time, gas limit, or other variables- this is the place to do it and hence start working on a ‘custom’ Ethereum blockchain.
This tutorial is part of a series of blog posts on getting a web page on your web server to communicate via web3 with your Ethereum test network on localhost. In our previous post, we created the first block in our testnet using a CustomGenesis.json. In the...
This tutorial is part of a series of blog posts on getting a web page on your web server to communicate via web3 with your Ethereum test network on localhost. In our previous post, we installed Geth on Mac OS X. When Geth is initially started on a Mac, Geth will start...
This tutorial is part of a series of blog posts on getting a web page on your web server to communicate via web3 with your Ethereum on localhost. In our previous post, we installed the Ethereum Wallet. The Ethereum Wallet is a nice way to visualize what's...
This tutorial is part of a series of blog posts on getting a web page on your web server to communicate via web3 with your Ethereum Wallet on localhost. In the process of trying to build a simple distributed app, Dapp, I encountered a ton of examples that do...