<center><h1>Testnet Up and Running</h1></center>

Yep, I got the testnet up and running!

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It has been a busy day, but nonetheless I've attempted to move forward with the Udemy tutorial. Completed the first actual coding lecture, however ran into a little problem... I cannot run a smart contract on the testnet (Ropsten) without any ETH.

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~~Well, looks like I'll have to wait another day to really dive in. If you by any chance have some extra testnet ETH and would like to send to: 0x12Ae61A8BF2ee352d1fb4a466ca4AE9B65479ea4 that would be awesome ... and if you have some extra real ETH you can send that to woolymammoth.eth :)~~

As I was writing this post, I mined some testnet ETH!!! Time to finally begin!

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LASTLY, got some cool new crypto swag tonight at the SF Ethereum meetup.

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