Ethereum

Since Binance Smart Chain and more specifically DeFi on BSC are a thing, I’ve been learning the amazing ways of Smart Contracts, and while many documentation exist on this topic, I didn’t find a clear one on how to “simply” execute a Smart Contract on geth, aka Go Ethereum, the most used Ethereum implementation and client.

Geth can interact with the Ethereum blockchain using, well… Javascript, and more specifically an (old) implementation of web3.js.

We will use Bunny Pancake as our DEX example, and more precisely the BUNNY pool smart contract, aka 0xCADc8CB26c8C7cB46500E61171b5F27e9bd7889D.

I’m kind of back in the mining arena. Like everyone else nowadays, I’m mining Ethereum with a couple of R9 290 & 290X graphic cards I bought second-hand.
So far everything works as intended, but as a proper control freak, I need to know what’s happening in real-time, what’s my firepower, how’s the mining doing etc…
Like many, I use a mining pool, ethermine to be precise, and those guys had the good taste of exposing a JSON API.
Using collectd-python capabilities, I was able to write a short python script that feeds: