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Narayan Prusty
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Narayan Prusty

Narayan Prusty is a full-stack developer. He works as a consultant for various start-ups around the world. He has worked on various technologies and programming languages but is very passionate about JavaScript, WordPress, Ethereum, Solr, React, Cordova, MongoDB, and AWS. Apart from consulting for various start-ups, he also runs a blog titled QNimate and a video tutorial site titled QScutter, where he shares information about a lot of the technologies he works on.
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Ethereum Wallet


Ethereum Wallet is an Ethereum UI client that lets you create account, send ether, deploy contracts, invoke methods of contracts, and much more.

Ethereum Wallet comes with geth bundled. When you run Ethereum, it tries to find a local geth instance and connects to it, and if it cannot find geth running, it launches its own geth node. Ethereum Wallet communicates with geth using IPC. Geth supports file-based IPC.

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If you change the data directory while running geth, you are also changing the IPC file path. So for Ethereum Wallet to find and connect to your geth instance, you need to use the --ipcpath option to specify the IPC file location to its default location so that Ethereum Wallet can find it; otherwise Ethereum Wallet won't be able to find it and will start its own geth instance. To find the default IPC file path, run geth help, and it will show the default path next to the --ipcpath option.

Visit https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases  to download Ethereum Wallet...

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Narayan Prusty

Narayan Prusty is a full-stack developer. He works as a consultant for various start-ups around the world. He has worked on various technologies and programming languages but is very passionate about JavaScript, WordPress, Ethereum, Solr, React, Cordova, MongoDB, and AWS. Apart from consulting for various start-ups, he also runs a blog titled QNimate and a video tutorial site titled QScutter, where he shares information about a lot of the technologies he works on.
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