Some questions about ethereum blockchain

Hi Thuyet,

1) Currently we do not have a web dashboard that shows transaction analytics. We have a work item to add an EthStats dashboard to consortium deployments, which would look like this: https://ethstats.net/ . Would that be helpful?

2) Ether in a consortium context is only useful insofar as it is used for gas to power smart contracts on the network. In our template, a very large amount of ether is allocated in the genesis block and used to pay arbitrary accounts for gas purposes.

3) Transaction throughput is highly dependent on the types of transactions being sent on the network - deploying a large smart contract is more resource-intensive than a simple ether transfer. That being said, with the default block gas limit, you can probably expect throughput of 7 to 20 transactions per second.

4) We recommend the use of the Ethereum Multi-Member Blockchain template for scenarios where expanding the number of nodes or participants is needed. The multi-member template will easily allow you to spin up new nodes and join them to your existing network.

5) The VMs are the main cost you will incur with our template. There is also a load balancer, but the cost of this resource is very small compared to the cost of the VMs.

Please let us know if you have further questions.

Regards,