New Project: Scripts for Creating/Starting up a New Testnet Coin

[skycoin-manager]

Look at this file as an example

• https://github.com/SolarBankers/SunCoin/blob/master/cmd/suncoin/suncoin.go

• Create a new folder called create-coin (or find a better name)

• Create a script in a subfolder that outputs a new coin (genesis block, masternode, etc) and outputs all the parameters as json or to a json file

• Create a second script in a sub-folder that launches a node for the coin by taking in the json parameters

WARNING: Make sure the default port number for the test net coins is different than the port number for Skycoin

1> Create a folder create-coin
2> Create a script that outputs a json configuration for a new coin

• the script will output one file with the master node private key, the genesis wallet seed, the secret information (and which includes the non-secret information)
• the script will output another file or section that includes the public information
  -- the genesis blockhash
  -- the port number for the coin
  -- the currency code for the coin (SKY, BZF, SOC, XYML, etc)
  -- the number of coins created in genesis block
  -- the masternode public key
  -- etc

The script should print two JSON sections on the command line

• the private/secret section
• the public section

There should be an option to save the information to a file on disc (optional)

3> Create a script that takes in the json configuration (from the command line or from a file on disc) and runs a node for that coin

4> Use the script to create a testnet coin, then run one master node and four node instances (possible in separate docker containers) and run the transaction testing script to verify that the testnet coin works

[not4x217]

Working on this.

[not4x217]

@skycoin-manager, what branch of skycoin repo should be used? testnet or develop?. Load testing util seems to use develop.

[gz-c]

testnet branch is not up to date with develop.

testnet branch has some examples of what needs to be changed to make the software configurable for a testnet.

develop branch is not fully configurable as necessary for a testnet yet

[gz-c]

@mihis are you on telegram or wechat?