Chapter 10: Using Puppeth, the Ethereum Private Network Manager

by Bruno Škvorc

In an earlier chapter, we discussed Geth, one of the most popular Ethereum nodes.

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When you install Geth with helper tools, it comes with a handy tool called Puppeth, which you can use to maintain and install various helper tools for managing and deploying your private blockchain. Puppeth can also be installed independently if you have Go installed, with the following command:

go get github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/puppeth

Let’s take a look at the tool.

Prerequisites

This tutorial will require you to have two remote machines at your disposal. Whether that is ...

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