From 3afaff07afeea7dbb5208d536da6efd940821db8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zaki Manian <zaki@manian.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:19:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Improved instructions for getting started in the ReadMe

---
 README.md | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cab3cd1c..ed95a001 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,6 +22,22 @@ This project is a reference implementation of the protocol.
 
 [Go](http://golang.org) 1.2 or newer.
 
+OpenSSL header files. `sudo apt-get install libssl-dev` on Debian/Ubuntu
+//TODO OpenSSL header files for other platforms
+
+
+###Setting up Golang
+
+[Install Go for your platform](https://golang.org/doc/install)
+
+Set up environment variables. Go requires certain environment variables to compile code. Set these in your terminal, .profile or .zshrc as appropiate.
+
+```
+export GOROOT=$HOME/go
+export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
+export GOPATH=$HOME/gopkg
+```
+
 ## Build
 
 [![Build Status](https://drone.io/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/status.png)](https://drone.io/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/latest)
@@ -35,6 +51,71 @@ make
 
 `./tendermint daemon --help`
 
+
+
+### Editing your config.json
+
+The file will be create in ~/.tendermint/config.json
+
+There is not official or testnet SeedNode yet. Will updated with an official list of seed nodes.
+
+//TODO Explanation of other config.json fields
+
+```
+{
+        "Network": "tendermint_testnet0",
+        "LAddr": "0.0.0.0:0",
+        "SeedNode": "",
+        "DB": {
+                "Backend": "leveldb",
+                "Dir": "/home/zaki/.tendermint/data"
+        },
+        "Alert": {
+                "MinInterval": 0,
+                "TwilioSid": "",
+                "TwilioToken": "",
+                "TwilioFrom": "",
+                "TwilioTo": "",
+                "EmailRecipients": null
+        },
+        "SMTP": {
+                "User": "",
+                "Password": "",
+                "Host": "",
+                "Port": 0
+        },
+        "RPC": {
+                "HTTPLAddr": "0.0.0.0:0"
+        }
+}
+
+```
+
+You will also to need to have a genesis.json in ~/.tendermint/. This must be the common genesis.json as the network you are joining from the Seed Node
+
+```
+{
+    "Accounts": [
+        {
+            "Address": "6070ff17c39b2b0a64ca2bc431328037fa0f4760",
+            "Amount":  200000000
+        }
+    ],
+    "Validators": [
+        {
+            "PubKey": "01206bd490c212e701a2136eeea04f06fa4f287ee47e2b7a9b5d62edd84cd6ad9753",
+            "Amount": 100000000,
+            "UnbondTo": [
+                {
+                        "Address": "6070ff17c39b2b0a64ca2bc431328037fa0f4760",
+                        "Amount":  100000000
+                }
+            ]
+        }
+    ]
+}
+```
+
 ## Resources
 
 IRC Channel: #tendermint on freenode