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Blockchain Development for Finance Projects
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Blockchain Development for Finance Projects

by Ishan Roy
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
530 pages
11h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Initializing the IPFS nodes

Next, we need to initialize the IPFS nodes for our system. Since we are setting up two nodes, we'll repeat the necessary steps twice, once for Node 1 and once for Node 2. Node 1 will be owned by Bank A, and Node 2 by Bank B.

  1. First, initialize Node 1, using the following command on the Terminal. Make sure you are in the IPFS executable path, which in my case is /usr/local/bin/ipfs.

The IPFS_PATH parameter points to the location of the local node folder for the IPFS Node 1. By default, it is available at /home/<user name>/.ipfs.

  1. Update this location to the IPFS_PATH parameter, by running the following command:
IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs ./ipfs init
  • A new peer ID will be generated. It will look something like this: ...
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ISBN: 9781838829094