Getting started

Install Docker

Docker install instructions

Install IPFS

IPFS install instructions

Install c3-go

go get -u github.com/c3systems/c3

Generate a private key

c3-go generate key -o priv.pem

You can start node the node now using the private key to sign blocks. Set difficulty=0 for testing. --uri specifies the multiaddress which is the port the node will use for libp2p communication.

c3-go node start --pem priv.pem --uri /ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/3330 --data-dir data --mempool-type memory --difficulty 0

You should see similar output

INFO[0000] [node] 0: /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/3330/ipfs/QmYwe8sjJTXh3fYE7jqQciQEPzJ7EqGjj25XGoENQiE67u
  source="service.go:167:node.NewFullNode"
INFO[0000] [node] 1: /ip4/10.2.0.94/tcp/3330/ipfs/QmYwe8sjJTXh3fYE7jqQciQEPzJ7EqGjj25XGoENQiE67u
  source="service.go:167:node.NewFullNode"
INFO[0000] [node] mempool type is "memory"               source="service.go:213:node.NewFullNode"
INFO[0000] [p2p] ipfs read latest stored main chain block zUM7WCZ79bs81ruvqib5EX7Z1w35gU8pUr2YwnKtD6gAbSW5U  source="util.go:308:p2p.FetchLatestBlock"