Genesis

Tooling for working with a genesis file

Usage

jcli genesis [subcommand]

Subcommands

• decode: Print the YAML file corresponding to an encoded genesis block.
• encode: Create the genesis block of the blockchain from a given yaml file.
• hash: Print the block hash of the genesis
• init: Create a default Genesis file with appropriate documentation to help creating the YAML file
• help

Examples

Encode a genesis file

jcli genesis encode --input genesis.yaml --output block-0.bin

or equivantely

cat genesis.yaml | jcli genesis encode > block-0.bin

Get the hash of an encoded genesis file

jcli genesis hash --input block-0.bin