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Running locally

We are making available a simple Docker-based set up with Hyperledger Besu so you can try out locally Keccak mining. The local network has a very small fixed difficulty as well so you can easily produce blocks on your machine with CPU mining.

  1. $ docker run -p 8545:8545 tmio/besu-keccak --rpc-http-enabled --rpc-http-api=admin,eth,debug,miner,net,txpool,priv,trace,web3 --rpc-http-cors-origins="all" --network=ecip1049_dev --miner-enabled --miner-coinbase=fe3b557e8fb62b89f4916b721be55ceb828dbd73

Mining locally

If you would like to mine on the network, you will need to install a miner to connect to Besu (see below).

You will need to enable Besu's stratum mining as well:

  1. $ docker run -p 8545:8545 tmio/besu-keccak --rpc-http-enabled --rpc-http-api=admin,eth,debug,miner,net,txpool,priv,trace,web3 --rpc-http-cors-origins="all" --network=ecip1049_dev --miner-enabled --miner-coinbase=fe3b557e8fb62b89f4916b721be55ceb828dbd73 --miner-stratum-enabled --miner-stratum-host=0.0.0.0

Currently, we have only created a CPU miner in Python, however we will be working on an open source GPU version as well. Please consult our resources if you are interested in mining.

  1. $ git clone https://github.com/snissn/ethereum-cpu-miner.git
  2. $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  3. $ sh run.sh

Make sure to change the run.sh to have the -n be the number of blocks you want to mine on the testnet. Screenshot below is succesful testnet mine to the author address.

  1. Connect Metamask to localhost:8545

The dev network uses 3 accounts. Here are the private keys:

  • 8f2a55949038a9610f50fb23b5883af3b4ecb3c3bb792cbcefbd1542c692be63
  • c87509a1c067bbde78beb793e6fa76530b6382a4c0241e5e4a9ec0a0f44dc0d3
  • ae6ae8e5ccbfb04590405997ee2d52d2b330726137b875053c36d94e974d162f

You can import them into Metamask.

More difficulty

The dev network uses a fixed, small difficulty so it uses CPU mining by default. You can provide a different genesis file with the following approach:

  1. mount a different genesis file
  2. change the arguments to pick it up.

Here is an example of genesis file:

{
  "config": {
    "chainId": 2021,
    "ecip1049Block": 0,
    "keccak256": {
    }
  },
  "nonce": "0x42",
  "timestamp": "0x0",
  "extraData": "0x11bbe8db4e347b4e8c937c1c8370e4b5ed33adb3db69cbdb7a38e1e50b1b82fa",
  "gasLimit": "0x1fffffffffffff",
  "difficulty": "0x10000",
  "mixHash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "coinbase": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "alloc": {
    "fe3b557e8fb62b89f4916b721be55ceb828dbd73": {
      "privateKey": "8f2a55949038a9610f50fb23b5883af3b4ecb3c3bb792cbcefbd1542c692be63",
      "comment": "private key and this comment are ignored.  In a real chain, the private key should NOT be stored",
      "balance": "0xad78ebc5ac6200000"
    },
    "627306090abaB3A6e1400e9345bC60c78a8BEf57": {
      "privateKey": "c87509a1c067bbde78beb793e6fa76530b6382a4c0241e5e4a9ec0a0f44dc0d3",
      "comment": "private key and this comment are ignored.  In a real chain, the private key should NOT be stored",
      "balance": "90000000000000000000000"
    },
    "f17f52151EbEF6C7334FAD080c5704D77216b732": {
      "privateKey": "ae6ae8e5ccbfb04590405997ee2d52d2b330726137b875053c36d94e974d162f",
      "comment": "private key and this comment are ignored.  In a real chain, the private key should NOT be stored",
      "balance": "90000000000000000000000"
    }
  }
}

$ docker run -p 8545:8545 -v genesis.json:/tmp/genesis.json tmio/besu-keccak --rpc-http-enabled --rpc-http-api=admin,eth,debug,miner,net,txpool,priv,trace,web3 --rpc-http-cors-origins="all" --miner-enabled --miner-coinbase=fe3b557e8fb62b89f4916b721be55ceb828dbd73 --genesis-file=/tmp/genesis.json

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