setting up a light wallet
In order to have a setup close to what the DAPP would be, we will use (metamask) [http://www.metamask.io] as a light wallet (there are other choices).
Metamask allows you to connect to a custom node.
We will then connect to our node, http://localhost:9012 If everthing is fine, metamasks should indicate it’s connected.
Then, we can import the metamask account to our local node by simply specifying the datadir we have setup the node data.
Let’s imagine metamask give us:
0xcddddd76a763de6e9ac19e7ec8f71ed77d61eebc0a93068fc9f2a544462db7d2
as the key.
Then let’s just copy this, without thw 0x inside a separate file.
echo "cddddd76a763de6e9ac19e7ec8f71ed77d61eebc0a93068fc9f2a544462db7d2" >> pvkey.txt
and then import it in our local chain
geth --datadir "./testChain" account import ./pvkey.txt
if you look at the list of accounts in your local node, you should see now the newly imported account.
give me ether!
Now, simply transfer some Ether to the newly imported account In geth, for example:
eth.sendTransaction({from: '0xfffffff', to: '0xddddddd', value: web3.toWei(1000, "ether")})