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How to select a network id or is there a list of network ids?
May be there is a list of network ids? If not, let's create one.
Good idea.
0: Olympic, Ethereum public pre-release PoW testnet
1: Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis, the Ethereum public PoW main ...
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What is a chainID in Ethereum, how is it different than NetworkID, and how is it used?
How is it different than networkID?
ChainID was introduced in EIP-155 to prevent replay attacks between the main ETH and ETC chains, which both have a networkID of 1.
It's basically just an ...
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Retrieve CHAIN_ID of the executing chain from a Solidity contract
chainid is available in native solidity 0.8.0. So you can get chain id like block timestamp or block number.
Here is the code.
block.chainid;
Documentation
https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/v0.8.0/...
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The meaning/specification of "config" in genesis.json
This is the chain configuration field, defined in config.go:
// ChainConfig is the core config which determines the blockchain settings.
//
// ChainConfig is stored in the database on a per block ...
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Retrieve CHAIN_ID of the executing chain from a Solidity contract
As of version 0.5.12, Solidity includes an assembly function chainid() that provides access to the new CHAINID opcode:
function getChainID() external view returns (uint256) {
uint256 id;
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getting error on max invalid genesis file: hex string has odd length
I had the same problem and found that the issue was:
"extraData": "0x0",
If you change it to:
"extraData": "0x00",
The problem goes away.
At this point though you'll have another issue because ...
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How to select a network id or is there a list of network ids?
For any geth node to join a network there are 2 requirement one is to have the same genesis block and other is to have the same networkid. Once these requirements are satisfied, to join a network you ...
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How do I get `gasLimit` in web3?
Asking for the last block mined, it will return the gasLimit of the block
https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript-API#web3ethgetblock
var block = web3.eth.getBlock("latest");
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Who has access to ethereum 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 address?
There is a treasure trove of tokens sent to address(0) to "burn" under the assumption that no one has the private key. and no one ever will.
In a manner of speaking, I would classify it as a very ...
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What is a chainID in Ethereum, how is it different than NetworkID, and how is it used?
Despite the fact that this question has an accepted answer, the original question does not seem to be answered, so I will add my two cents.
How is it different than networkID?
Network identifier (...
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Fatal: failed to write genesis block: wrong genesis block in database
You cannot do a init again if you have already done a init on datadir.
In order to achive what you want you need to first create simply create account .... once account is created use that for pre-...
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getting error on max invalid genesis file: hex string has odd length
The same problem happened to me with geth 1.6, with a genesis file similar to yours.
Last friday geth updated to 1.6 (https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.6.0).
In this release:...
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How to select a network id or is there a list of network ids?
There is a website dedicated to tracking all EVM chains and their corresponding ids:
chainlist.org
This is thanks to the Ethereum Lists initiative started by Ligi. Now the site is maintained by Yearn....
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Clique: Genesis File
Use something like this:
{
"config": {
"chainId": <yourChainId>,
"homesteadBlock": 0,
"eip150Block": 0,
"eip155Block": 0,
"eip158Block": 0,
"...
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Geth parameter "networkid" vs. Genesis block "chainId" config?
Network id and Chain id are the same thing
You can edit NetworkId in eth/config.go & params/config.go and get rid of this problem forever, you won't need to specify network id on the commandline ...
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Who has access to ethereum 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 address?
The genesis block is a special block which was mined by nobody and therefore is associated with the account 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000.
It's impossible to generate the private key for ...
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What is the meaning of Ethereum mainnet genesis block extradata value?
From the Ethereum Blog post Final Steps
Block #1028201 is formed on the Ethereum tesnet, and is given a hash.
The hash is used by users around the world as a unique parameter to the Genesis block ...
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Is it possible to preload contracts in the genesis block?
How did you build yor contract ?
If you want to add a contract to genesis block you need to build it with solc --bin-runtime.
By default solc and ide like remix build return code that is used for ...
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How could I update default homesteadBlock value on my private Ethereum blockchain?
In order to change the Homestead block, you will need to recompile geth from source.
You can see the relevant line:
MainNetHomesteadBlock = big.NewInt(1150000)
Just change this to to
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Disable block mining reward in private testnet
You can change source file consensus to implement. As follows:
clone [go-ethereum] source file
open consensus/ethash/consensus.go file, then find AccumulateRewards function and annotation tow lines. ...
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Issue in truffle migration with Quorum
inside module.exports, add Gas and gasPrice.
network_id: "*", // Match any network id
gasPrice: 0,
gas: 4500000
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What is a chainID in Ethereum, how is it different than NetworkID, and how is it used?
- How is it different than networkID?
networkId is for node communication and chainId is used for target chain identification in signature - ETC and ETH chainId is different and networkId is same
- Is ...
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What algorithm is used to generate nonce hash in genesis file?
There's really no hashing involved in this nonce, the value is arbitrary and the definition "64-bit string hash" is misleading, IMHO.
A better definition for nonce in this specific context can be ...
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What geth command options have been depreciated/removed?
You do everything right with init. As far as I understand you updated geth to last release, where hardware wallets support was added. So it requires libusb to be installed in your system. You should ...
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How do I get `gasLimit` in web3?
Here is the exact answer:
var block = await web3js.eth.getBlock("latest");
var gasLimit = block.gasLimit/block.transactions.length;
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Parity and Geth node as peers
The connection will drop if they are on different chains, you can run Parity with -lsync=trace to see what is going on.
It probably has to do with hard fork transitions, Geth does not include them ...
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Geth --dev mode; define reward account for mining
Shut down geth using Control-C for instance #1 and Control-D for instance #2.
Then type geth account new to create a new account. Enter in a passphrase that you will need to remember if you want to ...
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What do the parameters in the Ropsten genesis file mean?
What do the other config values mean?
Ethereum has been live for a long time. Over time, patches and improvements are applied to the chain for better stability or more features. This goes for ...
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genesis.json missing
Since you want to create a private Ethereum network, you need to create your own genesis file with customized parameters suitable for you. This ensures that you're running your version of the ...
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How to select a network id or is there a list of network ids?
NETWORK
CHAIN ID
RPC
EXPLORER
ARBITRUM (mainnet)
42161
https://arb1.arbitrum.io/rpc
https://arbiscan.io/|
ARBITRUM (testnet)
421611
https://rinkeby.arbitrum.io/rpc
https://rinkeby-explorer.arbitrum....
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