Sounds interesting. I was thinking of doing the same thing for a small local barter system.
Is the point to set up your own currency? Will the exchange rate be linked to Bitcoins or USD for example?
Topic: How to kick start a private bitcoin network? (Read 2243 times)
You are in pioneer territory. There will be no guide until the pioneers have made one.
Yes if there was an easy guide I'd be interested.
I'm interested in hearing how this works. Let us know if you get it working and what you had to do.
If you intend to do this, please change the genesis block and remove the benchmarking code. Change the default port number, also.
Also, the actual bitcoin genesis block was partly hand-tweaked, so to speak. For one thing, it has a text message embedded in its coinbase parameter, unlike succeeding blocks. This may be irrelevant however. I haven't looked into running a standalone testnet.
Then there is the more recent example of the Namecoin project's genesis block...
Then there is the more recent example of the Namecoin project's genesis block...
Oh that is beautiful. 
I had no idea that was hard coded in there. I'll have a go at the -testnet flag on my private network, as you previously mentioned.
Thanks a lot.
I had no idea that was hard coded in there. I'll have a go at the -testnet flag on my private network, as you previously mentioned.
Thanks a lot.
Then you'll need to modify the code and recompile. The place I saw testnet being referenced was here:
So currently it's hard-coded to not even try to generate blocks until after it has 118000 unless it's on a test net. Among other things affected by the testnet flag are the genesis block.
Code:
void BitcoinMiner()
{
...
while (vNodes.empty() || IsInitialBlockDownload())
{
Sleep(1000);
if (fShutdown)
return;
if (!fGenerateBitcoins)
return;
}
...
bool IsInitialBlockDownload()
{
if (pindexBest == NULL || (!fTestNet && nBestHeight < 118000))
return true;
So currently it's hard-coded to not even try to generate blocks until after it has 118000 unless it's on a test net. Among other things affected by the testnet flag are the genesis block.
I'm trying to create my own private bitcoin network. I don't want to connect to an already existing network such as testnet.
Just glancing at the code, you probably have to specify the -testnet argument as well.
So far I have 3 virtual machines running linux. My nodes are 100% attempting to generate coins are 100% connected to each other.
Each is running the bitcoin daemon with the following configuration settings.
gen=1
connect=192.168.70.128
connect=192.168.70.129
noirc=1
The nodes are connected to each other via the bitcoin daemon. When I go ./bitcoind getinfo I see 2 connections for each node.
My problem is that for some reason bitcoins are not being generated.
I believe the problem lies at the genesis block. Does the genesis block need to have the public key set to one of my nodes? Right now I have it set to default so the public key refrenced in the genesis block is the default.
I have tried to look around on these forums and IRC... so far I have not found the specifics of starting a custom network.
Any help would be great. Thanks a lot.
Each is running the bitcoin daemon with the following configuration settings.
gen=1
connect=192.168.70.128
connect=192.168.70.129
noirc=1
The nodes are connected to each other via the bitcoin daemon. When I go ./bitcoind getinfo I see 2 connections for each node.
My problem is that for some reason bitcoins are not being generated.
I believe the problem lies at the genesis block. Does the genesis block need to have the public key set to one of my nodes? Right now I have it set to default so the public key refrenced in the genesis block is the default.
I have tried to look around on these forums and IRC... so far I have not found the specifics of starting a custom network.
Any help would be great. Thanks a lot.
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