I am currently running a private ethereum chain with 2 nodes. My coinbase address on the main node has plenty of ether so I went to make a transaction but got the error "Gas Limit exceeded". I noticed that the gas limit was set to 5000 which is too low to make a transaction so I went to the customised genesis.json file and increased the limit to "0xC350" or 50000. Despite this the limit only moved to 5003. I have no idea why it does this and I have replaced the figure with other bigger numbers yet it only ever manages to get to 5003 instead of the default 5000. Any help would be much appreciated.
Here is my Genesis.json file:
{
"nonce": "0x0000000000000042",
"timestamp": "0x0",
"parentHash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
"extraData": "0x0",
"gasLimit": "0xC350",
"difficulty": "0x400",
"mixhash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
"coinbase": "0x3333333333333333333333333333333333333333",
"alloc":
{
"0xcf117e46aa225864ed1d0dd7e99b8b006abe3410":
{ "balance": "10000000000000000000000000" }
}
}
I am using Geth.