The testnet is an alternative blockchain to be used for testing. Testnet coins are distinct from actual coins, and testnet coins do not have any monetary value. This allows application developers or testers to experiment without having to use valuable coins.
We've been trying to deploy a Crowdsale Initial Coin Offering (ICO) Solidity contract to the Ethereum block chain for the better part of 2 months. Code for an Initial Coin Offering Fund raise We've looked into the Open Zeppelins tutorials on How to Create Token an...
In this tutorial, we're going to deploy the Ethereum Truffle Pet Shop DApp demo to an AWS EC2 Micro instance. If you've played with Ethereum's Solidity programming language to deploy smart contracts to the blockchain, you've come to the realization that Ethereum and...
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...
Setting up your Ethereum Eth Development Environment on a Mac OS X Firstly, to install Ethereum Eth download the latest stable binary of cpp-ethereum, and install on your chosen operating system. I'm running on Mac so I'll install via Homebrew brew update brew upgrade...