Mining Ethereum (locally)

I setup my own Ethereum-based blockchain this morning and mined some ether. I created two accounts (wallets) and passed Wei (ether “pennies”) back and forth to each other and performed mining in-between to verify the transactions (aka move the money).

  1. Download geth
  2. Unzip it
  3. Initialize geth using this genesis.json file (strip the .zip extension off the filename)

geth –datadir=./datadir init genesis.json

4. Create an account:

geth –datadir=./datadir account new

5. Start the java console:

geth –datadir=./datadir console

Mine some ether!

miner.start(1)

INFO [01-23|11:45:55] Updated mining threads                   threads=1

INFO [01-23|11:45:55] Transaction pool price threshold updated price=18000000000

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> INFO [01-23|11:45:55] Starting mining operation

INFO [01-23|11:45:55] Commit new mining work                   number=1 txs=0 uncles=0 elapsed=88.981µs

INFO [01-23|11:46:04] Generating DAG in progress               epoch=0 percentage=0 elapsed=7.167s

INFO [01-23|11:46:11] Generating DAG in progress               epoch=0 percentage=1 elapsed=14.543s

INFO [01-23|11:46:18] Generating DAG in progress               epoch=0 percentage=2 elapsed=21.008s

INFO [01-23|11:46:24] Generating DAG in progress               epoch=0 percentage=3 elapsed=27.073s

INFO [01-23|11:55:54] Generated ethash verification cache      epoch=0 elapsed=9m57.721s

INFO [01-23|11:56:00] Successfully sealed new block            number=1 hash=9c9452…2b3045

INFO [01-23|11:58:51] 🔨 mined potential block                  number=18 hash=c0b3d4…823d41

INFO [01-23|11:58:51] Commit new mining work                   number=19 txs=0 uncles=0 elapsed=205.898µs

INFO [01-23|11:58:52] Successfully sealed new block            number=19 hash=8940d2…e026a6

INFO [01-23|11:58:52] 🔗 block reached canonical chain          number=14 hash=e08f17…b69966

INFO [01-23|11:58:52] 🔨 mined potential block                  number=19 hash=8940d2…e026a6

INFO [01-23|11:58:52] Commit new mining work                   number=20 txs=0 uncles=0 elapsed=116.913µs

miner.stop()

You should have some ether in your wallet now!

Check your balance:

eth.accounts

get string

eth.getBalance(“paste string”)

or to see balance in ether:

web3.fromWei(eth.getBalance(eth.accounts[0]), “ether”)

240

Create a second wallet:

personal.newAccount(“abc123”)

Make sure the new wallet exists:

> eth.accounts
[“0x28a3a7967d16e51b3a38c7ae12c9e036472e07ad”, “0x2765108503bbda744203d8c9d3d744 c355f2453d”]

Move 100 from wallet “0” to wallet “1”:

Unlock the sending wallet first:

(personal.unlockAccount(eth.accounts[0], “password_for_wallet“)

Send 100 ether:

eth.sendTransaction({from: eth.accounts[0], to: eth.accounts[1], value: web3.toWei(100, “ether”)})

Performed some more mining to move the money (verify)

> miner.start(1)

INFO [01-23|12:17:30] Updated mining threads                   threads=1

INFO [01-23|12:17:30] Transaction pool price threshold updated price=18000000000

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INFO [01-23|12:17:30] Starting mining operation

INFO [01-23|12:17:30] Commit new mining work                   number=49 txs=1 uncles=0 elapsed=269.401µs

INFO [01-23|12:17:37] Successfully sealed new block            number=49 hash=cdd60d…09413f

INFO [01-23|12:17:37] 🔗 block reached canonical chain          number=44 hash=4f6fd6…898d8a

INFO [01-23|12:17:37] 🔨 mined potential block                  number=49 hash=cdd60d…09413f

INFO [01-23|12:17:37] Commit new mining work                   number=50 txs=0 uncles=0 elapsed=135.258µs

> miner.stop()

Check balances:

> web3.fromWei(eth.getBalance(eth.accounts[0]), “ether”)

155 (note 15 additional coins from mining work to vfy txn!)

> web3.fromWei(eth.getBalance(eth.accounts[1]), “ether”)

100

Voila!

Transaction details:

> eth.getTransaction(“0xef3f9391e569ff205768d3e27bf7cf73308c5e8de0859b4e8fe096c26ba53”)

{

blockHash: “0xcdd60d0b3722adc0fba3c4956a02f8e6120b717371d335f6ae6849a09413f”,

blockNumber: 49,

from: “0x28a3a7967d16e51b3a38c7ae12c9e036472e07ad”,

gas: 90000,

gasPrice: 18000000000,

hash: “0xef3f9391e569ff205768c68d3e27bf7cf73308c5e8de0859b4e8fe096c26ba53”,

input: “0x”,

nonce: 0,

r: “0xf5981cbee6da86dc162787a8814d8dc30a874f3777228cdc1d03a20de10776b2”,

s: “0x7e3606f0e791493e166212dbec20161aa0aa6cec594bfb82214ed91cb000ff”,

to: “0x2765108503bbda744203d9d3d744c355f2453d”,

transactionIndex: 0,

v: “0xed”,

value: 100000000000000000000

}

 

Block details:

> eth.getBlock(“0xcdd60d0b22adc0fba3c4956a02f8e64ed120b717371d335f6ae6849a09413f”)

{

difficulty: 131072,

extraData: “0xd7830107038467657487676f312e392e32856c696e7578”,

gasLimit: 329424,

gasUsed: 21000,

hash: “0xcdd60d0b3722adc0fba3c4956a02f8e64ed120b717371d335f6ae6849a09413f”,

logsBloom: “0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000                                                                                                                                                             00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000                                                                                                                                                             00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000                                                                                                                                                             00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000                                                                                                                                                             00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000                                                                                                                                                             00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000”,

miner: “0x28a3a79d16e51b3a38c7ae12c9e036472e07ad”,

mixHash: “0x52f1d43a0d0f20de558ae892bd0be8d4f39231f73569a03a70d9274be9f475”,

nonce: “0x736267a32012d9”,

number: 49,

parentHash: “0x823fe9ab5c194169a5321193bbe61357cf56f958ed77f5d23ad9018b0b602b”,

receiptsRoot: “0xb91d6e796beda886fc0ea068b01d824a2a57f9ab48457046c3410feeaa0198”,

sha3Uncles: “0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347”,

size: 651,

stateRoot: “0xfdc68f56dfd304be1405ccecc0f25eb70b5db2bf78f173e12022dbbd39bf20f9”,

timestamp: 151672750,

totalDifficulty: 644896,

transactions: [“0xef3f9391e569ff205768c68d3e27bf7cf7335e8de0859b4e8fe096c26ba53”],

transactionsRoot: “0x356c5cacb2a696f43a194473badaa8fa5ec1c2fef6e0e1b9cc341e569ec1”,

uncles: []

}

This is step one for creating my own DAPP.  Hopefully this helps you.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, let me know.

Thanks!

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