I was trying to follow: https://github.com/ThatOtherZach/Web3-by-Example/wiki/Send-Ether-Transaction to create and broadcast my first transaction on the ethereum testnet rinkeby.
However, I am struggling for hours after I managed to create an Address and to fund it (https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/address/0x24003FbB79cfA541eE32C59ef3A7424541f4AA01). I also tried the ropsten testnet, and with all possible gasPrice/gasLimit combinations (not even commenting them out helps) but same errors all the time:
Error: Returned error: exceeds block gas limit
My code:
// Add the web3 node module
var Web3 = require('web3');
// Show web3 where it needs to look for the Ethereum node.
web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider('https://rinkeby.infura.io/Whm5Ks3VGzJMBGHh4MEx'));
// An extra module is required for this, use npm to install before running
var Tx = require('ethereumjs-tx');
// Used to sign the transaction. Obviously you SHOULD better secure this than just plain text
var privateKey = new Buffer('265f303edd16be057608a0810414c2889c24e7ce8e9e4a88ae5b8a561c26935a', 'hex');
// The receiving address of the transaction
var receivingAddr = ('0x29307EE93F49E9eB1425e40C9119b9Cb6e39d9B5');
// Value to be sent, converted to wei and then into a hex value
var txValue = web3.utils.numberToHex(web3.utils.toWei('0.001', 'ether'));
console.log(txValue);
// Data to be sent in transaction, converted into a hex value. Normal tx's do not need this and use '0x' as default, but who wants to be normal?
var txData = web3.utils.asciiToHex('hi');
console.log('gasprice1');
var rawTx = {
nonce: '1', // Nonce is the times the address has transacted, should always be higher than the last nonce 0x0#
gasPrice: '0x38d7ea4c68000', // '0x14f46b0400', // Normal is '0x14f46b0400' or 90 GWei
gasLimit: '2100000', //'0x2710', // Limit to be used by the transaction, default is '0x55f0' or 22000 GWei
to: receivingAddr, // The receiving address of this transaction
value: txValue, // The value we are sending '0x16345785d8a0000' which is 0.1 Ether
data: txData // The data to be sent with transaction, '0x6f6820686169206d61726b' or 'oh hai mark'
}
console.log(rawTx); // This is used for testing to see if the rawTx was formmated created properly, comment out the code below to use.
var tx = new Tx(rawTx);
tx.sign(privateKey); // Here we sign the transaction with the private key
var serializedTx = tx.serialize(); // Clean things up a bit
console.log(serializedTx.toString('hex')); // Log the resulting raw transaction hex for debugging if it fails to send
web3.eth.sendSignedTransaction('0x' + serializedTx.toString('hex')) // Broadcast the transaction to the network
.on('receipt', console.log); // When a receipt is issued, log it to the console
If I use the values from https://github.com/ethereumjs/ethereumjs-tx gasPrice: '0x09184e72a000', gasLimit: '0x2710', I get: Error: Returned error: intrinsic gas too low
Following error with this setup: { nonce: '0x00', gasPrice: '0x09184e72a000', gasLimit: '0x2710', from: '0xED54EbBC73C7fb8B6607547b7541D8799708D93B', to: '0xB29d0bDe21FF7f1a89eBEd0D9c40cA9f71119D7C', value: '0x38d7ea4c68000', chainId: '3', data: '0x737072656164' }
Error: Returned error: insufficient funds for gas * price + value
