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In the same vein as setting up a private DNS root server and using whatever domain names you want, how do you generate your own blockchain and mine your own coins?

P.S. I don't want any answers like "why would you want to?" I want to do it because it can be done

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  • There's never going to be a tutorial for something so non-standard. Go read the code and learn how to make a new genesis block, otherwise, you're out of luck.
    – Anonymous
    Commented Oct 29, 2013 at 0:36
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    translation: I don't know - go figure it out yourself
    – supertaco
    Commented Nov 1, 2013 at 18:15
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    Did you figure it out? Maybe you can share your learning and code. Thanks
    – codesalsa
    Commented Apr 22, 2015 at 22:03

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I think I Found it. Someone wrote a C program to generate a genesis block. Code is on github here:

https://github.com/Gnaf/GenesisBlockZero

The original code was pulled from a discussion on the bitcoin developer forums:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=187888.

Compile and run the program to generate the initial SHA256 hash, the time and nonce, then plug those into the bitcoin main.cpp source and recompile. I think that's all you have to do to start a new blockchain.

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You can do this really easily with MultiChain, and even make your blockchain permissioned, i.e. only accessible to certain entities.

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    I can attest to this, multichain has a robust codebase for building blockchains. Still early days, but in my analysis of 20+ codebases, multichain / coinspark are the heavy hitters.
    – Alex Waters
    Commented Jul 9, 2015 at 18:44
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http://build-a-co.in/ You can find all you want and very specific changes

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You would want to use Testnet in a box

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You can use something like Multichain to build the basic blockchain part of it. You can see my article on how to use Multichain here

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  • There is a above answer with your same answer.
    – Marc Alexander
    Commented Nov 15, 2017 at 17:29
  • For the record, even though this answer is similar to another, I'd like to see it kept since it has a different set of instructions at the given link that may be useful.
    – Highly Irregular
    Commented Nov 15, 2017 at 20:29

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