diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 07f43b8..75c6a09 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-data/*
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+data/*
+node_modules/*
+*.json
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..683ad36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+start:
+	geth --rpc --rpcaddr "localhost" --rpcport "8545" --datadir="./data" --rpccorsdomain "*" --rpcapi "eth,net,web3" --nodiscover
+
+new:
+	geth account new --datadir ./data
+
+init:
+	geth -datadir ./data init ./genesis.json
+
+console:
+	geth --datadir ./data attach ipc:./data /geth.ipc
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diff --git a/genesis.json.dist b/genesis.json.dist
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63c6868
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genesis.json.dist
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{
+    "config": {
+        "chainId": 15,
+        "homesteadBlock": 0,
+        "eip155Block": 0,
+        "eip158Block": 0
+    },
+    "difficulty": "0x20",
+    "gasLimit": "0x2100000",
+    "alloc": {
+        "7a69b359e86893efa3d9732e4c65ced51567edd0": 
+         { "balance": "0x1337000000000000000000" }     
+    }
+}
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