Module 1: Introduction to Bee Factory

What is Bee Factory?

Bee Factory enables you to simulate the Swarm network and blockchain on your own server without having to worry about postage costs, XBZZ or BZZ tokens, and other requirements that are needed when dealing with the live or testnet Swarm network.

Bee Factory simulates 4 bee nodes and 1 queen node, akin to running 4 bee nodes on a live network.

Bee Factory is a CLI tool used to spin up a Docker cluster of Bee nodes as well as a test Blockchain for advanced testing and development.

Bee Factory GitHub Repository - Note: The repository and documentation is outdated, and part of this course aims to address and update it.

Questionnarie

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- What are the benefits of using bee-factory as opposed to the public network?

Quicker Easier for development No need to worry about BZZ, xBZZ All of the above

- Which of the following are true when considering Swarm?

Bee-factory is a simple connection to the public swarm network. Bee-factory can be used to mine BZZ. Bee-factory allows you to run a private swarm-network without having to worry about BZZ/xBZZ or connecting to the public network. Bee-factory is an online store to buy honey.