rpcuser=<anything-you-like->
rpcpassword=<I-usually-use-a-uuid-here>
reservebalance=0 # or 100000000000000 # translates to staking=on / staking=off

    def test_get_emissions(self):
        # unittests already imported
        import json
        import requests
        import datetime

        # switch endpoint
        testnet = True

        # template SPARQL query returning the block height of the next minted
        # block after {timestamp}
        querytmpl = \
            '''?query=PREFIX+ccy%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fnet%2F''' \
            '''bel-epa%2Fccy%23%3E%0ASELECT+%3Fheight+%3Fdt%0AWHERE+%''' \
            '''7B%0A++%3Fblock+ccy%3Aheight+%3Fheight+.%0A++%3Fblock+''' \
            '''ccy%3Atime+%3Fdt.+%0A++FILTER(%3Fdt+%3C+{timestamp})%0''' \
            '''A%7D%0AORDER+BY+DESC(%3Fdt)+LIMIT+1'''

        url = '''http://localhost:3030/{}/sparql'''.format(
            'slmtchain' if testnet else 'slmchain')

        # Initialise the starting date
        ptr = psz = datetime.date(year=2017, month=4, day=15) if testnet \
            else datetime.date(year=2014, month=5, day=28)

        # Create a day incrementer
        nextday = datetime.timedelta(days=1)

        # Save results in comma-separated format
        with open('/tmp/{}-emissions.csv'.format(
                'testnet' if testnet else 'mainnet'), 'w') as fp:

            # create day range to drive iteration
            for day in range(0, (datetime.date.today() - psz).days):

                # Blurt progress
                if day % 100 == 0:
                    print(day)

                # Increment the date pointer by one day
                ptr += nextday

                # Create timestamp from date pointer
                ts = int(datetime.datetime.strptime(
                    '{}-{}-{}T00:00:00.000Z'.format(
                        ptr.year, ptr.month, ptr.day),
                    '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ').timestamp())

                # Execute the SPARQL query
                res = requests.get(url + querytmpl.format(
                    timestamp=ts)
                ).content.decode('utf-8')

                # Marshal and persist the results for the given day
                resd = json.loads(res)
                height = resd['results']['bindings'][0]['height']['value']
                bdate = resd['results']['bindings'][0]['dt']['value']
                datum = '''"{t}",{h},{d}\n'''.format(t=ptr, h=height, d=bdate)
                fp.write(datum)
        fp.close()