README.nobios.md

How to participate in an eos-bios launch without using eos-bios

This means participating in ithe eos-bios consensus mechanism through the eosio.disco contract, yet not running eos-bios to either boot or join.

The boot of the network requires a participating to run eos-bios, since all other participants are expecting injection of content based on its computed consensus content.

The join operation can be done manually by simply getting the genesis.json from the advertised, randomly chosen boot node, finding a few p2p peers, and booting your node with that configuration in.

Publishing your participation

To participate, simply take a copy of sample_config/my_discovery_file.yaml, convert it to .json, make the appropriate tweaks and inject it in the SEED network this way:

Enclose the resulting json in this struct:

{
 "account": "youraccountname",
 "disco": CONTENTS OF CONVERTED YAML
}

Then

cleos push action -u http://a-seed-network-node eosio.disco updtdisco "`cat mydisco.json`" -p yourname

Accessing the consensus data

You can also access the genesis from the boot node through this command:

cleos get table -u ... eosio.disco eosio.disco genesis --limit 1000

You can fetch the other participants' discovery file with:

cleos get table -u ... eosio.disco eosio.disco discovery --limit 1000

From there, you can pluck out target_p2p_address from active participants (those who have an updated_at more recent than 30 minutes).

That's !