Proof-of-Authority Private Ethereum Network

This repository contains a simple proof-of-authority ethereum private network that can be run on your local machine. This is a customized version of eth-private-net by Vincent Chu.

If you plan to deploy a cluster of nodes in the cloud, have a look at the remote branch of the setup repository where you can find a bunch of deployment scripts for remote deployment.

Basically, this script initializes 5 geth nodes with sufficient ether and then interconnects them to form a small private network. Then, the script starts pm2 with eth-netstat-intelligence-api/provotum.json in order to relay all information from the node to the eth-netstats dashboard which is started at last and opened on http://localhost:3002.

After that, the nodes can be individually attached via terminal. (e.g. geth attach http://localhost:PORT, whereas PORT is ranging from 8101-8105)

Prerequisites

Make sure geth is installed and in the $PATH. geth is a golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol and provides command line tools for interacting with the Ethereum network. You can download pre-compiled binaries or install from Homebrew or source using the installation instructions.

Additionally, make sure npm is installed.

Make sure you run git submodule init && git submodule update to get the submodules eth-netstats and eth-net-intelligence-api.

cd eth-net-intelligence-api
sudo npm install -g pm2
npm install

cd eth-netstats
npm install
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
grunt all

Starting the Cluster

Now you should be ready to go

./run.sh

Additionally, start / stop mining with

./startmining.sh
./stopminer.sh

Stopping the Cluster

./teardown.sh