From 7368680a082b4b5db5f820a75a29927e7948078a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Chinchilla Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:22:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md Co-Authored-By: Martin Holst Swende --- docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md b/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md index 6f3c1b35a7..9952d49331 100644 --- a/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md +++ b/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Starting geth in dev mode does the following: - Sets max peers to 0 - Turns off discovery by other nodes - Sets the gas price to 0 -- Uses the ethash consensus engine with clique headers to allows blocks to be mined as fast as your CPU and memory can handle +- 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