I've started my geth node with the following command:
$ geth --testnet --fast --cache=512 console
Now my console looks something like this:
How will I know when my node is fully synchronized?
INFO [07-20|13:32:48] Imported new state entries count=384 elapsed=14.509ms processed=1610372 pending=101560
INFO [07-20|13:32:48] Imported new block receipts count=282 elapsed=66.980ms number=1317825 hash=1085ad…37a592 ignored=0
Why are those two entries above different?
Is it that Imported new block receipts
represents a block and Imported new state entries
represents a transaction?
Is this node, as it was initiated with the command above, by default mining and proposing blocks to the network?
eth.syncing
will output some stats, when it is not syncing it will return false. But at the beginning until it find some peers it will also return false, so you should check thateth.blockNumber
is non zero.