litecoin-testnet-box

Create your own private litecoin testnet

You must have litecoind and litecoin-cli installed on your system.

Starting the testnet-box

This will start up two nodes using the two datadirs 1 and 2. They will only connect to each other in order to remain an isolated private testnet. Two nodes are provided, as one is used to generate blocks and it's balance will be increased as this occurs (imitating a miner). You may want a second node where this behavior is not observed.

Node 1 will listen on port 19333 and node 2 will listen on port 19344 for the JSON-RPC server.

$ make start

Check the status of the nodes

$ make getinfo
litecoin-cli -datadir=1  getinfo
{
  "version": 130200,
  "protocolversion": 70015,
  "walletversion": 130000,
  "balance": 0.00000000,
  "blocks": 0,
  "timeoffset": 0,
  "connections": 0,
  "proxy": "",
  "difficulty": 4.656542373906925e-10,
  "testnet": false,
  "keypoololdest": 1505115081,
  "keypoolsize": 100,
  "paytxfee": 0.00000000,
  "relayfee": 0.00100000,
  "errors": ""
}
litecoin-cli -datadir=2  getinfo
{
  "version": 130200,
  "protocolversion": 70015,
  "walletversion": 130000,
  "balance": 0.00000000,
  "blocks": 0,
  "timeoffset": 0,
  "connections": 0,
  "proxy": "",
  "difficulty": 4.656542373906925e-10,
  "testnet": false,
  "keypoololdest": 1505115081,
  "keypoolsize": 100,
  "paytxfee": 0.00000000,
  "relayfee": 0.00100000,
  "errors": ""
}

Generating blocks

Normally on the live, real, litecoin network, blocks are generated, on average, every 10 minutes. Since this testnet-in-box uses litecoin Core's (litecoind) regtest mode, we are able to generate a block on a private network instantly using a simple command.

To generate a block:

$ make generate

To generate more than 1 block:

$ make generate BLOCKS=10

Need to generate at least 100 blocks before there will be a balance in the first wallet

$ make generate BLOCKS=200

Verify that there is a balance on the first wallet

$ make getinfo

Generate a wallet address for the second wallet

$ make address2

Sending litecoins

To send litecoins that you've generated to the second wallet: (be sure to change the ADDRESS value below to wallet address generated in the prior command)

$ make sendfrom1 ADDRESS=mkuYNa49mrrh4JcimJn6wyNWrvzsvWAsyf AMOUNT=10

Does the balance show up?

Run the getinfo command again. Does the balance show up? Why not?

$ make getinfo

Generate another block

$ make generate

Stopping the testnet-box

$ make stop

To clean up any files created while running the testnet and restore to the original state:

$ make clean

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