Ok, thanks for that. I went to the Jungle testnet page and created a couple of accounts and then used the faucet to fund them for testing purposes.
I'm confused though. Is the Jungle Testnet being ran by the EOS Core group and then EOS Bios Boot is running some other Testnet and those are the two main groups jockeying for position?
If I'm understanding correctly Buildteam is going to run another testnet node over on EOS Bios Boot's testnet as well?
I was running Dawn 3.x on my VPS a couple of weeks ago and I'm wondering if there is a way to easily use cleos without building the entire thing again with the new code since I don't need nodeos or any of that? Like be able to connect to these testnets and just run cleos to execute commands?
Sorry for all the questions but I'm just trying to understand everything a little more. Thanks
The two main groups jockeying for position are EOS BIOS Boot and EOS Core. The Jungle Testnet is being run by another team, the Crypto Lions block producer candidate: http://cryptolions.io/
There's no possibility of the Jungle Testnet becoming the mainnet, it is and shall remain just a testnet. But we like it as a way to play around with EOS without worrying that your actions will affect the mainnet. It's perfect for development work and practice.
Yes, BuildTeam is setting up another test node on the EOS BIOS Boot network. We aim to be well positioned for the mainnet launch regardless of whichever chain is eventually chosen to become the mainnet.
You can use cleos to connect to a remote node on any network that has made itself publicly available. However, you also still need keosd running for wallet management. And bits of code in cleos and keosd have likely changed a good deal since Dawn 3.x. To be safe and not have to worry about any compatibility issues, it's best to just build the entire thing again.
Ok, thanks for the info. That is very helpful!