How to mine Ethereum Geth
Ethereum - Getting started with Geth
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okay today we're going to start with a
short lesson on how to install theory
and more specifically we're going to
install gas which is the go
implementation of aetherium first thing
we're going to do is download the latest
version of gas so we're going to say
you're still search for thorium gift
you'll see a link come up for the
releases for the go aetherium
implementation scroll down a little bit
and here sure enough is our version that
we're looking for well download batch
and take very long we'll open that up
and you can see I've downloaded several
times here but what we're after is this
file called gas ETH and we want it but
we want to do is copy that into
appropriate place in our path so we can
just use it when we're ready why I'm
going to copy this into you at user u.s.
are local in I'm going to paste that in
here and you can see I already got one
in there so I'll replace that one and so
now we can kind of say which gas and
let's see what it's looking at so sure
enough use your local band gap is where
we were our operating system is finding
death we can try a get version and you
can see that we're on the one point four
point one eight stable I think it looks
good now what we're going to do is we
want to start gas and what guess we'll
do when I start guess it'll download the
blockchain to our computer we're going
to set up the test net on this computer
so that we can have some other lessons
and do some examples and not with low
risk and so we're going to use the test
sense otherwise known as Morden so what
we can do is just type gap get past
several command lines
we're going to use - - test net because
we want the test net not the live net
and we're also to use - fast and so the
reason we're going to use fast is that
the Geth blockchain is rather large it's
mini gigabytes and it can take a long
time to download if we use - - fast then
it will come much quicker and so let's
go ahead and I'm gonna hit enter on this
and watch what happens here this can
take several hours to download the
blockchain even with the - fast and so
you'll see that it will kind of you'll
kind of get stuck here for a while
basically what's happening is gap is
going out and trying to find some peers
that are on the test net and once it
finds those peers it'll begin to ask
those peers for blocks and those peers
will send the blocks until we have the
full blockchain and so what we're going
to do is go through one more thing here
and then we're going to kind of just
pause and we'll come back after the
blockchain has been completely
downloaded - let's do this let's open up
another terminal and while doing let's
find out what death is actually doing
where is it putting all this data is the
question and if you change the if you go
to the library folder
amano oh no I'm Macintosh right now if I
go to library all you'll see is there's
a aetherium folder here that was just
just add it there and we'll say using 50
theorem and so now you can see there's
this test net when I type death - - test
net - that's fast it created these
folders and if I say CD test and you can
see that there's a chain data folder add
app folder get that IPC note key nodes
okay and in fact if I if I minimized as
you can see that sure enough
I've connected to some peers and I am
downloading that the blockchain is
coming now one of the things that I like
to do is we'll go to a block Explorer so
let's just do this
morgan explore or just kind of those do
a little search and we'll say here's a
test net either scan net IO it's a it's
a blockchain Explorer and what we want
to do is we can see the block height is
is 1 million seven hundred eighty-five
thousand seven or seven blocks okay so
all those blocks I can download all
those blocks and so you can see that
right now you can kind of look at some
of the data flying by here I'm importing
some let's see if I can see where it
says so I'm at seventy eighty thousand
blocks so you take out a long ways to go
okay I'm at eighty thousand blocks and
the block height is of at 1,700,000
seventy five thousand so we're going to
stop here for now and let this go let's
just look at one more thing here let's
see if we can okay
okay what we'll do is we'll go and try
to find my other there we go let's do
addy you 72 Meg and you can see this is
going to grow 57 sixty-three as
interesting how that is you can only
test net you kind of explore these these
this data you can see it's growing loops
chain data yeah see this is a database
that's being built and what you'll find
is these files will be bigger and bigger
and it will end up being gigabytes of
data on your computer so you want to
make sure you have plenty of room on the
place where
the computer where you're going to store
the blockchain all right so we're going
to stop for now we will look at you can
see now we're at two hundred twelve
thousand so it's moving pretty fast but
we'll stop here and we'll come back and
do some more interesting things with gap
