{"id":1734,"date":"2017-12-30T01:16:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T01:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2018-01-14T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T09:20:17","slug":"wellington-smart-contract-workshop-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/30\/wellington-smart-contract-workshop-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Contract Workshop #1 &#8211; Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It was great to see bunch of dedicated people gather at 1st Assembly in Lower Hutt to learn Mist, an Ethereum browser and wallet.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-12-28-18.19.35-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-12-28-18.19.35-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-12-28-18.19.35-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-12-28-18.19.35-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tasks were:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"course-contents\">\n<li class=\"ng-scope\">\n<div class=\"row collapse\">\n<div class=\"title small-12 column\"><a class=\"ng-binding ng-isolate-scope\" href=\"https:\/\/blockchains.learndot.com\/courses\/6326-ethereum-mist-basics\/modules\/16296-downloading-mist\">Downloading Mist<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-scope\"><i class=\"fa fa-circle-o\"><\/i>\n<div class=\"row collapse\">\n<div class=\"title small-12 column\"><a class=\"ng-binding ng-isolate-scope\" href=\"https:\/\/blockchains.learndot.com\/courses\/6326-ethereum-mist-basics\/modules\/18310-syncing-mist\">Syncing Mist<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-scope\"><i class=\"fa fa-circle-o\"><\/i>\n<div class=\"row collapse\">\n<div class=\"title small-12 column\"><a class=\"ng-binding ng-isolate-scope\" href=\"https:\/\/blockchains.learndot.com\/courses\/6326-ethereum-mist-basics\/modules\/18311-saving-space\">Saving space<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-scope\"><i class=\"fa fa-circle-o\"><\/i>\n<div class=\"row collapse\">\n<div class=\"title small-12 column\"><a class=\"ng-binding ng-isolate-scope\" href=\"https:\/\/blockchains.learndot.com\/courses\/6326-ethereum-mist-basics\/modules\/18312-mining-test-ether\">Mining test ether<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-scope\"><i class=\"fa fa-circle-o\"><\/i>\n<div class=\"row collapse\">\n<div class=\"title small-12 column\"><a class=\"ng-binding ng-isolate-scope\" href=\"https:\/\/blockchains.learndot.com\/courses\/6326-ethereum-mist-basics\/modules\/18313-creating-new-accounts\">Creating new accounts<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-scope\"><i class=\"fa fa-circle-o\"><\/i>\n<div class=\"row collapse\">\n<div class=\"title small-12 column\"><a class=\"ng-binding ng-isolate-scope\" href=\"https:\/\/blockchains.learndot.com\/courses\/6326-ethereum-mist-basics\/modules\/18314-sending-ether-between-accounts\">Sending ether between accounts<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main challenge was downloading the 8Gb Ropsten testnet blockchain. We had some USB&#8217;s to pass around with the testnet blockchain on it, but copying that amount of data took a bit of time.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested in the workshop content, you can see what we went through at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blockchains.learndot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/blockchains.learndot.com<\/a>. Register an account, go through the notes and exercises.<\/p>\n<p>The process of doing the task created lots of questions such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the difference between Mist and Ethereum Wallet?<\/li>\n<li>How do I change networks?<\/li>\n<li>How do I know if it is mining test ether?<\/li>\n<li>Where do I put the chaindata file?<\/li>\n<li>and many more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the end most managed to sync Mist, mine some test ether and send them between accounts which was great to see.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-6.27.41-AM-300x180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-6.27.41-AM-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-6.27.41-AM-768x460.png 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-6.27.41-AM-1024x614.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-6.27.41-AM.png 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the coming workshops we&#8217;ll be building a Hello World smart contract, learning about tokens and eventually building an EIP20 token. There is no pre-requisite knowledge required because we&#8217;ll all end up helping each other and learning along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/smartcontracts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/smartcontracts<\/a> to see where and when the next workshops are. We&#8217;ve got a Telegram group also at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/joinchat\/G84KThDRZaXOJsxa7oQHmw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.me\/joinchat\/G84KThDRZaXOJsxa7oQHmw<\/a>\u00a0so feel free to join the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was great to see bunch of dedicated people gather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethereum"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/workshop300a.jpg",300,172,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/workshop300a-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/workshop300a-300x172.jpg",300,172,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/workshop300a.jpg",300,172,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/workshop300a.jpg",300,172,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/workshop300a.jpg",300,172,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/workshop300a.jpg",300,172,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/workshop300a.jpg",300,172,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/workshop300a.jpg",300,172,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/workshop300a.jpg",300,172,false]},"author_info":{"info":["seandotau"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/category\/ethereum\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Ethereum<\/a>","tag_info":"Ethereum","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}