March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition
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Mist browser
The Mist browser is a user-friendly interface for end users with a feature-rich graphical user interface that is used to browse Decentralized Applications (DApps) and for account management and contract management. Mist installation is covered in the next chapter.
When Mist is launched for the first time, it will initialize Geth in the background and will sync with the network. It can take from a few hours to a few days depending on the speed and type of the network to fully synchronize with the network. If testnet is used, then syncing completes relatively faster as the size of testnet (Ropsten) is not as big as mainnet. More information on how to connect to testnet will be provided in the next chapter, Chapter 12, Ethereum ...