Testnet

CLAM has its own testnet. It differs from mainnet in the following ways:

• The coins are intended to worthless, for testing only.
• Coins only take 10 blocks to mature instead of 500 on mainnet.
• Coins only have to be idle for 30 minutes before they can stake instead of 4 hours on mainnet.
• The initial distribution was created by 300 proof-of-work blocks each creating 5000 CLAMs; this gives a total money supply of 1.5 million.
• The P2P network connects on port 35714, instead of 31174.
• The RPC client connects on port 35715, instead of 30174.

Connecting to Testnet

Make a folder testnet inside the folder that holds your regular CLAM wallet. Make a file in there called clam.conf, as follows (the daemon=1 is optional, but useful if you're running clamd instead of clam-qt):

testnet=1
rpcuser=clamrpc
rpcpassword=<your password here>
port=35714
rpcport=35715
addnode=54.247.189.77:35714
addnode=khashier.com:35714
daemon=1

Then run:

clam-qt -conf=testnet/clam.conf

to have it use that clam.conf file.

Using clamd with Testnet

Each time you use clamd to interact with a running testnet server you will need to specify the -conf flag so it knows you want to talk to the testnet server not the mainnet one:

clamd -conf=testnet/clam.conf getinfo

You may find it convenient to set up an alias, for example:

alias cct='clamd -conf=testnet/clam.conf'
cct getinfo

Staking is enabled by default. You can disable it with:

staking=0

in testnet/clam.conf.

Testnet in a Box

If you want to create your own testnet chain from scratch, you'll need to proof-of-work mine the first 300 blocks. Testnet PoW blocks are worth 5000 CLAMs each.

https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer is capable of mining CLAM PoW blocks on your CPU:

Build the miner, and run it like this:

./minerd --no-gbt --url http://127.0.0.1:35715 --user <user> --pass <pass> -a scrypt -D

where <user> and <pass> are your username and password from your clam.conf file.