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Making ETH transfers in Azure Blockchain Workbench
...To be clear the question by the op doesn't make sense.. It is not the workbench that is the issue here but the blockchain service . the one in preview.. not deprecated. Utilizing the istanbul consensus...the default genesis block does not preallocate accounts nor does it offer the ability. So if you hook metamask up tot he secure rpc endpoint all you'll ever see is 0 eth in that wallet/account. In a poa chain that might not be necessary but I still see a point where access to those minted blocks would be needed. Please enlighten me if you truly understand my problem here...
AaronSnobel I think you nailed the problem here. Azure Blockchain is not designed for cryptocurrency transactions. I don't know why the Microsoft product group took this decision, I can only think that they want to avoid resource intensive mining.
I wish someone from Microsoft could read this thread and answer...
- The use cases azure expects for the public to use the 'azure blockchain service (preview)' is for businesses that intend to use just contracts and just for their own purposes.. as in no primary blocks. Such that companies will only ever store and retrieve data from the chain as opposed to making transactions on the chain.
