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Ethereum client implementation

I think to better my understanding of the EVM and underlying file system, I want to read through one or more ethereum client implementations and potentially build a client myself. So far I've been ...
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Is it possible to run a client behind an onion address?

It is possible to run a bitcoin client which only connects to onion nodes in the TOR network, like that: ./bitcoind -onion=127.0.0.1:9050 -onlynet=tor -externalip=ssapp53tmftyjmjb.onion Is something ...
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Does any client maintain a mapping of hashes to addresses?

As explained in the Design Rationale wiki: Using sha3(k) as the key in the "secure tree" (used in the state and account storage tries): this makes it much more difficult to DoS the trie by setting ...
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Simple hello packet

I am trying to generate a simple hello packet for handshaking with a remote Ethereum client using the encode method from the rlp library. from rlp import encode hello = bytearray(encode([0x00, 4, "...
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Invalid transaction signature on sending transaction

Hello guys I'm having a "Invalid transaction signature." error. Can't get pass this one. Am I missing something? client, err := ethclient.Dial("path/to/geth.ipc") if err != nil { return err } ks :...
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How does Smart Contract client work?

I don't understand how a client works. I try to explain my doubts. Since a client in the classic client-server paradigm is a lightweight application, I don't understand how this application can use ...
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what is the lowest gas price that clients (Geth / Parity) relay

I read here that nodes (at least Geth) only relay transactions that have a gas price above some limit. What is that default limit currently? As also mentioned there it is probably not zero as that ...
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Problem with ether mining, stuck in DAG generation loop

i am completely new to ether mining, recently attempted to mine some ether using my desktop. I came across a comprehensive guide from this link: https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/guides/how-to-mine-...
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What is the best way to deploy and test smart contracts on multiple machines?

I have recently started developement on Ethereum and the concepts are pretty much new to me. I need to test event emitting/listening on multiple machines for my contract. For the same, I have tried ...
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Is “EthArmbian” an OS for running Ethereum client on “micro-processors”?

Is "EthArmbian" an OS for running Ethereum light client on "micro-processors" or "micro-controllers" ? And if yes, which micro-processors ?
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My Ethereum Wallet/Mist Stuck after Byzantium update

After updating my ethereum wallet and mist now they are stuck at around block 4,375,146. It actually keeps downloading new block but never goes up to the latest block (always +4000 block behind... and ...
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Returned error: gas required exceeds allowance (91135865401031) or always failing transaction

I am trying to deploy smart contract on private network and do transactions via nodejs script. This is my genesis block: { "config": { "chainId": 16, "homesteadBlock": 0, "...
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How a json-rpc client can tell that a transaction it's sent has been rejected?

Judging from https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JSON-RPC the api client can synchronize on events such as: Transaction is received/pending: eth_gettransactionbyhash returns non-null with block ...
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How does Geth query the blockchain?

This question has probably been already answered somewhere else but I didn't find anything on the internet so I'm asking here. I wonder how clients such as Geth query the blockchain to get specific ...
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Building Prysm on Windows

I'm currently following the steps to build Prysm from the instructions on Github: https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm At the step for building the beacon chain I ran this command: bazel build //...
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Ethereum Wallet and Mist stuck on block 1,699,999 even after updating to latest version of geth

geth version Geth Version: 1.7.2-stable Git Commit: 1db4ecdc0b9e828ff65777fb466fc7c1d04e0de9 Architecture: amd64 Protocol Versions: [63 62] Network Id: 1 Go Version: go1.9.1 Operating System: darwin ...