Simulation of BitCoin BlockChain

Question

Hi Community,

Thanks in advance for your thoughtful responses.  I'm trying to craft a security simulation around bitcoin using multichain.  I'd like it to include "BrainWallets" "BitCoin ATMs" and "regular bitcoin wallets".  What I'm wondering is two things:

If you were me what open projects would you fork to achieve this?

Is there a way to simulate the same exact genesis hashes and things as bitcoin?  For the sake of being able to use pure bitcoin apps against multichain.

 

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Sorry for the delayed reply. You can use MultiChain to recreate a bitcoin-like blockchain, by following the instructions here with two changes.

http://www.multichain.com/developers/creating-connecting/#bitcoin-node

The changes are:

1. Use a different default-network-port, otherwise this node might accidentally be discovered by genuine bitcoin nodes and its blockchain will be overrun.
2. Don't use bitcoin@seed.bitcoin.sipa.be as the seed, but rather start a new blockchain on one node using that params file, and then connect to that node from the others.