Dev notes - w/c 13 May 2024

Reviewing pk910's previous work + using geth ChainConfig

Geth local setup

Make sure golang version is up to date

Pull latest changes to my fork & rebuild
git remote add upstream [e-mail]:ethereum/go-ethereum.git
git pull upstream master
make geth

Update personal access token if needed
git remote remove origin
git remote add origin https://<token>@github.com/atkinsonholly/go-ethereum.git

Running ephemery locally with my geth fork

Get the latest ephemery version
https://github.com/ephemery-testnet/ephemery-genesis/releases

Delete geth datadir and make sure that my geth fork is initialized with the latest ephemery version
Note: not needed if running with flag (below)
./build/bin/geth --datadir ../gethData init ../testnet-all/genesis.json

Launch hol-geth with latest params (from nodevars_env.txt) without flag
./build/bin/geth --datadir ../gethData --port 30303 --http --http.addr 0.0.0.0 --http.port 8545 --http.api eth,net,personal,web3 --ws --ws.addr 0.0.0.0 --ws.port 8546 --ws.api eth,net,personal,web3 --authrpc.jwtsecret=/tmp/jwtsecret --syncmode=full --bootnodes "enode://50a54ecbd2175497640bcf46a25bbe9bb4fae51d7cc2a29ef4947a7ee17496cf39a699b7fe6b703ed0feb9dbaae7e44fc3827fcb7435ca9ac6de4daa4d983b3d@137.74.203.240:30303" --networkid 39438128

Running ephemery locally with my geth fork - now with ephemery flag

Launch hol-geth with flag (don't forget to rebuild!)

./build/bin/geth --ephemery

The following error results from using:

    g := new(Genesis)
	reader := strings.NewReader(EphemeryAllocData)
	if err := json.NewDecoder(reader).Decode(g); err != nil {
	 	panic(err)
	}

Changing to read EphemeryAllocData as GenesisAlloc means the whole config isn't sought from genesis_alloc.go, yet there are still import issues to fix:

Updating the reset period and original timestamp:

Deleting chaindata at default location means that geth can start:

After updating to latest ephemery default settings and verifying ChainId (shown in logs) and timestamp are correctly calculated (used debugger):

Need to correctly format alloc:

TODO:

• Fix iteration calculation in genesis.go - actual chainId is currently CHAIN_ID="39438128"
• Review error in logs "Head block is not reachable" => Shown if there is no chaindata at the default location
• Refactor func DefaultEphemeryGenesisBlock() for consistency with other testnets
• Fix config issue above ingenesis.go relating to import/use of EphemeryAllocData vs ephemery chain config
  • Review EphemeryAllocData format. Since KilnData was removed it appears this format is no longer used and I should use a new format for ephemeryAllocData instead
• Review where to include minGenesisTimestamp and genesisDelay - should these be in genesis.go or in config.go?
• Update the ephemery var names to correctly reflect EIP spec
• Review where to define (or not) Coinbase, Mixhash, ParentHash

Observations:

• MIN_GENESIS_TIME (1638471600) not easy to find in ephemery resources
• Debugging in geth as follows

./build/bin/geth --ephemery --verbosity 4
log.Debug("msg", key, val)