Do you have a macOS setup but still want to create your own cryptocurrency token? It is totally possible to create an ERC20 cryptocurrency token on a Mac!
In this video, we’ll show you how to create these tokens and all the other supplementary programs that you will need in this process! So, check out our video below and read the article too to find out more:
Package Manager for Macintosh
If you are a Macintosh user, the first thing that we need to install is Homebrew, which is a package manager for Macintosh. The way to do it is really simple. You just copy this command, paste it in your terminal, type your password, and here you go. Soon enough, you should have it on your system.
Node and NPM Packages
What it enables us to do is very similar to what the Node Package Manager, for example, allows us to do; it simply enables us to download software packages in a very simple and convenient manner. So we will see how to do that in a minute when we install Node. We will install Node simply by typing brew install node, and soon enough we should have it on our system. Here we go! We can test it by typing node –version, and we get version 8.7, which is the latest version. Great!
Also, by default, when you download the Node package, you also get the NPM package, and here we go: we get version 5.4.2.
GETH
The next package to install is GETH, and we do so by first typing brew tap ethereum/ethereum. What it does is make a link in our system to the Ethereum package, and then we can install the actual package by typing brew install ethereum. This might take a bit more time than the Node package installation, so let me get back to you once it’s finished.
Alright, so GETH has been installed, and we can test it by typing geth version, and we can see that we have version 1.7.2. Great!
Install “testrpc”
Let’s move on. The next step is to download and install “testrpc,” and we do so by typing npm install -g ethereumjs-testrpc. It should be quick, and we should have it in a minute. Yeah, we have it, so we can even start an RPC node right here.
We can see some accounts that were created for us, along with some private keys of these accounts, so everything works. Finally, we install Truffle by typing npm install -g truffle, and we test that it works. We can see the commands and the version number. So this is it. That’s all the installation steps.
