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Go-Ethereum is a Go language implementation of Ethereum Classic, supporting the original blockchain and its philosophy of immutability, censorship-resistance, and resilient distributed applications.
🔭 For general information related to Ethereum Classic including:
- whitepaper
- yellow paper
- protocol and interface specs
- affiliated APIs
- DAPP development guides
... please see our Ethereum Project Main Wiki or visit our website.
The main Ethereum Classic client is called Geth (the old english third person singular conjugation of "to go". Quite appropriate given geth is written in Go. Geth is a multipurpose command line tool that runs a full Ethereum Classic node. It offers three interfaces:
- the command line subcommands and options,
- a JSON-RPC server, and
- an interactive Javascript console.
Platforms: Supported Platforms are Linux, Mac, and Windows. In order to install Geth, please vist our Releases Page. Please consider reviewing our Disclaimer Notice before use.
License: The Ethereum Classic Core Protocol licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0. All frontend client software (under cmd) is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
By installing and running geth, you can take part in the Ethereum Classic live network and
- mine real ether
- transfer funds between addresses
- create contracts and send transactions
- explore block history
- and much, much more
This is an open source project made by and for a passionate and welcoming community. The ETC Labs Core team is lead by @stevanlohja, and Go-Ethereum's lead developer is @meowsbits. Introduce yourself on Discord, read the Contributing Guidelines, and find or make an issue.
Building and testing geth requires both Go >=1.8 and a C compiler.
Get set up:
# Go get it! (get it? ;-)
go get github.com/ethereumproject/go-ethereum/...
# Install binary 'geth' to $GOPATH/bin:
# Note: You can run this command from $cwd.
# Note: Ensure $GOPATH/bin is added to your $PATH.
go install github.com/ethereumproject/go-ethereum/cmd/geth
# Or, install all executables, including geth:
go install github.com/ethereumproject/go-ethereum/cmd/...
# check it out!
geth --helpSee the Testing Wiki page for information on unit, integration, and external tests.
Geth outputs stderr to the console. Output from the console can be logged or redirected:
geth 2>>geth.log
Additionally, you may can use --log-dir=PATH to specify a directly in which geth will write it's logs to a timestamped file.
You can also use geth attach to begin a Javascript console session with an already-running instance of geth; just use a second terminal.
- If you're integrating another application or service with geth:
- Interested in working with some associated packages?
Please browse our FAQ Wiki page to see if there's already an answer to your question. If there isn't, please file an issue or get in touch with us on Disorc (#help or #development channels, preferably).
Security issues are best sent to stevan.l@etclabs.org, dean.p@etclabs.org, or shared in PM with devs on the Discord channel.
Non-sensitive bug reports are welcome on Github. Please always state the version (on master) or commit of your build (if on develop), give as much detail as possible about the situation and the anomaly that occurred. Provide logs or stacktrace if you can.
Ethereum is joint work of ETCDEV and the community.
Name or blame = list of contributors: