# Setup

### Initializing the Geth Database

To create a blockchain node that uses this genesis block, first use geth init to import and sets the canonical genesis block for the new chain. This requires the path to `genesis.json` to be passed as an argument. You can find genesis.json on next page

```sh
geth init --datadir <path_to_data_dir> <path_to_genesis.json>
```

### Bootnodes

You can see our default config file for&#x20;

```toml
[Node]
DataDir = "/var/lib/geth"

[Eth]
NetworkId = 4999

[Node.P2P]
BootstrapNodes = ["enode://e2690da39257ded2fe8f107b0434e624c29a42fbaf05b0ecb45cb0c3369e61625a4ffa8fc0b7e6b2f7315cef61e9211a6a01ba46d9ad2ad7b79bd5ab9adeabf3@34.107.58.82:30303", "enode://f31ea6597830f1c4866601d427eeefa28e724861413182b29df73f050cca6fadbf1a2f25832c956f498679f9513946a18593c155c5714da0dfec4e6b6c20e78f@34.154.225.117:30303", "enode://2705810be88f7164d01717be5ae0a7451371e56ec78ad17d1d791a3f0fc42a1cac9aa63893778d0ea570bf1b2da74e25a1dd643773ce9828c24fa61b29728874@34.65.157.193:30303", "enode://53f61af1118571a3bf0fb9b031471058fa233f0bf864c5da74a9473219d0a8db2548a4f0399d7d9d1939cc65f827376c874efb6aa8cd60a70a3c48cd2e626972@34.91.173.199:30303"]
```

### Recommended run args for Node

Put this as service job. Command-line arguments can also be moved to config file for convenience

```
geth --config <path_to_toml_file> --syncmode=full --gcmode=archive --cache 8192 --http --http.addr 0.0.0.0 --http.api eth,db,net,web3,txpool,clique,debug --http.rpcprefix /rpc --http.vhosts * --rpc.evmtimeout 0 --verbosity 4 --ignore-legacy-receipts --nat extip:<your_static_ip_address>
```

Command-line arguments documentation can be found [here](https://geth.ethereum.org/docs/fundamentals/command-line-options)


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