Cryptocurrency

This is part 3 of EOS quick-start. Please makesure you have completed [Part 2] Install from sources and have all requirements installed.

Before we begin

First things first: By voting you are accepting the EOS Constitution. Make sure you have read it!

As we already stated in [Part 1] Introduction, EOS is in many ways a social experiment in governance. One of the aspects of this is voting for block producers and you vote matters. There are currently few ways to vote for EOS block producers currently available:

This is part 4 of EOS quick-start. Please makesure you have completed [ Part 2 ] Install from sources and have all requirements installed.

Also refer to [ Part 1 ] Introduction for basic information on EOS.IO

Run EOS.IO Local Testnet

after the build successfully finished, you need to run

nodeos --config-dir ./config --data-dir ./data

this will generate data and config folder with default config.ini  file in you working folder, then stop it with Ctrl + C.

This is part 2 of EOS quick-start. Please refer to [ Part 1 ] Introduction for basic information on EOS.IO

Installation and configuration

In EOS.IO there are three main progreams that weare going to use througout this tutorials:

• nodeos is n EOS node daemon
• keosd is a wallet keys daemon
• cleos is a cli - command line interface tool

Option 1. Run Docker image

This is the simplest and easiest way. Just run the following command to get into EOS enabled shell:

docker run -it eosio/eos:latest /bin/bash

Option 2. Build using build script

So according to the README on https://github.com/EOSIO/eos, all I need to do to run local testnet is:

What the heck is EOS, and why should I care?

According to EOS.IO: EOS is a software that introduces a blockchain architecture designed to enable vertical and horizontal scaling of decentralized applications.

But what does it mean?..