Testnet 2 HF24 Eclipse: migration & surprise | Ecency

Surprise

Yep, I decided to start with the surprise 😋

Because I can do it, I did it 😁.

Okay, well, good for you... What the hell did you do?

Oh nothing, just a quick thing I made with Angular 10 and NodeJS for those who are curious to see the Testnet 2 blockchain in action because I thought it was fun to do it 😂

Then, for those who would like to see the Testnet 2 Live stream of block production of the HF24 it's here: http://hf24.mintrawa.com/

Don't hesitate to go and take a look to see how the blocks are produced by @holger80, @yabapmatt, @roelandp, @deathwing, @engrave, @arcange, @someguy123's servers.

Feel free to show to the world that you're ready for this new adventure in the universe of Hive with the tag #HiveHF24ready on all social media and social networks 🎉

What have I learned today? That I was crazy to think that I would find a better javascript library for Hive than the one Johan Nordberg made. Its javascript library remains far ahead of the others and thanks to @good-karma (you made the right choice) and its dhive version it continues to be at the top.

Unfortunately there is no STEMGeeks Hackathon from @themarkymark at the moment, otherwise I would have participated 🥺

Migration to Testnet 2

To avoid at most any problem, I will follow the post of @howo and now use the TCP port 2002 for my node server on Testnet 2.

Step I - Disabling my witness on the Testnet 1

I know that we're on a testnet and that it's not necessary, but it's better to have this kind of practice because in a production environment, it's important! It saves you from missing blocks when you have to do maintenance on the server!

To do this in the cli_wallet I used the update_witness command with the specific address TST1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm (the change here with the production environment are the 3 characters at the beginning TST for testnet and STM for production.

unlocked >>> update_witness "mintrawa" "https://toolbox.mintrawa.com/" "TST1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm" {"account_creation_fee":"0.000 TESTS","maximum_block_size":65536,"sbd_interest_rate":0} true

And I get the answer (details of the block taking into account my request)

{
  "ref_block_num": 1532,
  "ref_block_prefix": 2608235698,
  "expiration": "2020-08-28T20:49:30",
  "operations": [[
      "witness_update",{
        "owner": "mintrawa",
        "url": "https://toolbox.mintrawa.com/",
        "block_signing_key": "TST1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm",
        "props": {
          "account_creation_fee": "0.000 TESTS",
          "maximum_block_size": 65536,
          "hbd_interest_rate": 1000,
          "account_subsidy_budget": 797,
          "account_subsidy_decay": 347321
        },
        "fee": "0.000 TESTS"
      }
    ]
  ],
  "extensions": [],
  "signatures": [
    "1f621132562b2e2a2f8badbd9e8cf9b569a1cc1f94cd8969e7c9d15b37dadd53333c01d4b381c8798ec535be1eaecb988342dd04052dc8cc2aee6570a9439ff5d7"
  ],
  "transaction_id": "b139d41e602432082ed7913a445bc72761cf270f",
  "block_num": 67069,
  "transaction_num": 1
}

Step II - Stop hived & delete directories

Because I used 2 specific directories (~/build and ~/bin), I deleted only these 2 directories.

Step III - Switch branch & build

First switch to restore_fix branch with git pull && git checkout restore_fix

In case of doubt do a git status and check the answer, it will be like this

Your branch is up to date with 'origin/restore_fix'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

Step IV - Build hived

Starting from this point, I did the same thing as before.

I checked the version and got this

:~/build$ ~/bin/hived --version
  "version" : { "hive_blockchain_hard_fork" : "1.25.0", "hive_git_revision" : "af279f324e249a41411653247861ce031244cd09" }