From 7e722aad81c99aec960b148300a888d59e8f09cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Lange Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:35:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update dev-mode.md --- docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md b/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md index d16aa7c39c..dff4f46bc7 100644 --- a/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md +++ b/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ Starting geth in dev mode does the following: - Turns off discovery by other nodes - 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 - 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: