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Clarify block generation

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Chris Ward 2019-10-22 14:28:15 +02:00
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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Starting geth in dev mode does the following:
- Sets the gas price to 0
- Uses the Clique PoA consensus engine with which allows blocks to be mined as-needed without excessive CPU and memory consumption
- Prevents the consensus (proof of work) difficulty from ever increasing
- Permits 0 block times in the clique consensus engine and forbid empty blocks for 0 periods
- Uses on-demand block generation, producing blocks when there are transactions waiting to be mined
You can specify a data directory to maintain state between runs using the `--datadir` option, otherwise databases are ephemeral and in-memory: