By default Hivemind will connect to the mainnet [https://api.hive.blog](https://api.hive.blog) but if required you can change this to connect to a testnet. To do this set the environment variable as described below.
By default Hivemind will connect to the mainnet [https://api.hive.blog](https://api.hive.blog) but if required you can change this to connect to a testnet. To do this set the environment variable as described below.
```bash
```bash
# Note as of 2021-03-30, hivemind still internally uses the environment variable called STEEMD_URL for this.
# Note as of 2021-05-14, hivemind still internally uses the environment variable called STEEMD_URL for this.