dash-testnet-box

Create your own private DASH testnet

Note: This was heavily borrowed from: https://github.com/freewil/bitcoin-testnet-box . It is assumed that you are running this on 64 bit linux. (tested on Ubuntu 16.10)

You must have dashd and dash-cli installed on your system and modify the top of the Makefile, or you can run the make download option. You need to have make installed. (apt-get install make)

Starting the testnet-box

This will start up two nodes using the two datadirs 1 and 2. They will only connect to each other in order to remain an isolated private testnet. Two nodes are provided, as one is used to generate blocks and it's balance will be increased as this occurs (imitating a miner). You may want a second node where this behavior is not observed.

Node 1 will listen on port 19000, allowing node 2 to connect to it.

Node 1 will listen on port 19001 and node 2 will listen on port 19011 for the JSON-RPC server.

To download the DASH v12.1 binaries.

$ make download

To start the DASH processes

$ make start

Check the status of the nodes

$ make getinfo
{
  "version": 120100,
  "protocolversion": 70206,
  "walletversion": 61000,
  "balance": 0.00000000,
  "privatesend_balance": 0.00000000,
  "blocks": 0,
  "timeoffset": 0,
  "connections": 1,
  "proxy": "",
  "difficulty": 4.656542373906925e-10,
  "testnet": false,
  "keypoololdest": 1486515110,
  "keypoolsize": 1001,
  "paytxfee": 0.00000000,
  "relayfee": 0.00010000,
  "errors": ""
}
/root/dashcore/dashcore-0.12.1/bin/dash-cli -datadir=2  getinfo
{
  "version": 120100,
  "protocolversion": 70206,
  "walletversion": 61000,
  "balance": 0.00000000,
  "privatesend_balance": 0.00000000,
  "blocks": 0,
  "timeoffset": 0,
  "connections": 1,
  "proxy": "",
  "difficulty": 4.656542373906925e-10,
  "testnet": false,
  "keypoololdest": 1486515110,
  "keypoolsize": 1001,
  "paytxfee": 0.00000000,
  "relayfee": 0.00010000,
  "errors": ""
}

Generating blocks

Normally on the live, real, DASH network, blocks are generated, on average, every 2.5 minutes. Since this testnet-in-box uses DASH Core's (dashd) regtest mode, we are able to generate a block on a private network instantly using a simple command.

To generate a block:

$ make generate

To generate more than 1 block:

$ make generate BLOCKS=10

Need to generate at least 200 blocks before there will be a balance in the first wallet

$ make generate BLOCKS=200

Verify that there is a balance on the first wallet

$ make getinfo

Generate a wallet address for the second wallet

$ make address2

Sending DASH

To send DASH that you've generated to the second wallet: (be sure to change the ADDRESS value below to wallet address generated in the prior command)

$ make sendfrom1 ADDRESS=ygWoB2qkP3SKrdSWUeWVirhd5uN8bAHYax AMOUNT=10

Does the balance show up?

Run the getinfo command again. Does the balance show up? Why not?

$ make getinfo

Generate another block

$ make generate

Stopping the testnet-box

$ make stop

To clean up any files created while running the testnet and restore to the original state:

$ make clean

Connect a GUI wallet to your new testnet

Create a new digital ocean droplet (16.10, smallest is fine). Login.

$ git clone https://github.com/mkinney/dash-testnet-box.git
$ cd dash-testnet-box
$ make download
$ make start

On mac, with 12.1 GUI installed, copy the files in gui_wallet (dashinbox.bash and dashinbox.conf) to ~/Library/Application\ Support/DashCore. (be sure to chmod +x dashinbox.bash. Edit the dashinbox.conf file for the ip address of your digital ocean droplet. Run ./dashinbox.bash. Once the wallet is started (which should be very quick), click on "receive", then send 1000 DASH to that address, and generate 6 blocks for it to confirm.

$ make sendfrom1 ADDRESS=yZ5ASQH5LPWoFXHmXuG5AX6Pkyk25mbNtC AMOUNT=1000
$ make generate BLOCKS=6

You should now have 1000 DASH in this GUI wallet, so you can make your first masternode. Go into Tools, Debug Console, and type:

masternode genkey

TODO: finish the masternode config