Testnet Only Guide: How I Got My Daemon, Wallet, And Miner Running & Also Started Solo Stake Mining

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  1. davecgh

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    #201 davecgh, Feb 3, 2016
    Correct. That is one of the main reasons for having deterministic key generation based on a seed.
     
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  2. Reynold

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    #202 Reynold, Feb 3, 2016
    Shouldn't this be a default? Why would anyone not want to stake?
     
  3. davecgh

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    #203 davecgh, Feb 3, 2016
    Because you can't spend the coins used to purchase a stake ticket until the ticket either wins a lottery or it expires. On mainnet that could be up to ~4.7 months.
     
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    #204 Akai, Feb 4, 2016
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    Where can i find more info about how ticket works?

    EDIT: Already found here. thank you :)
     
  5. .m.

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    #205 .m., Feb 4, 2016
    Hi, I believe you need to install proprietary nvidia driver ( google it ) and then check with :
    find / -name "libOpenCL.so*"
    and if still not working, set the OCLSODIR=<the directory of your openCL so file>
    and start with
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$OCLSODIR ./cgminer ..........

    godspeed !
     
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  6. neo cortex

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    #206 neo cortex, Feb 4, 2016
    regarding step 8 I keep getting this error. is there something I missed out?

    win 7 32bit
    Kaspersky internet security 15 (I disabled protection though)
     

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  7. whis

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    #207 whis, Feb 4, 2016
    @sambiohazard

    At step 4 for pos after entering in a new window
    1. dcrctl --notls --testnet -u walletuser -P walletpass --wallet walletpassphrase [same as in step 4 during wallet creation] 0
    Nothing special happens, just a new C:\Users\username\Desktop\New folder\windows-amd64> shows up

    What do i need to do next actually? I guess next step is to stake, so to buy stake tickets/vote? but i dont have any test decred. I actually dont know which way to go from here.
     
  8. Akai

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    #208 Akai, Feb 4, 2016
    Probably before this, you should launch the daemon
    dcrd --testnet --notls -u user -P pass

    unless you do this you cannot connect wallet to daemon and move on
    Let us know ;)
     
  9. Metallicelmo

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    #209 Metallicelmo, Feb 4, 2016
    I found this in the Quick Reference, can anyone explain what this does and why you should or should not use this?
    dcrwallet -u user -P password --enablestakemining --balancetomaintain=200.0 --ticketmaxprice=20
    can anyone explain in baby language?
     
  10. sambiohazard

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    #210 sambiohazard, Feb 4, 2016
    in the command window with wallet running in it, you will see this message

    21:12:19 2016-02-04 [INF] DCRW: The wallet has been unlocked without a time limit.

    This means wallet is now unlocked and if you have done everything right, it will start buying tickets & after a few hours to a day, it will start voting on blocks.

    When it buys a ticket you will se something like

    "successfully inserted sstx" in wallet window

    and when it buys a ticket you will see something like this in wallet window.

    20:29:07 2016-02-04 [INF] WLLT: Voted on block 000000000016906166a871fa42ed6a3e4
    ac66a5e0df2abcab0ee1c387765b5e7 (height 7040) using ticket 8f1c1801626c134882da2
    0d231583f9b77600df7db74dcefc1ead212a32e9ecf (vote hash: d398e48b91d1b56de36f3fd2
    f0144610fd8044fdf3fc2486a2141ada5a2ef5cb)
     
  11. sambiohazard

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    #211 sambiohazard, Feb 4, 2016
    hmm did you create a public passphrase during wallet creation in step 4?
     
  12. sambiohazard

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    #212 sambiohazard, Feb 4, 2016
    just read the Solo Stake Mining section in my guide. If you can't understand from that then i will explain again
     
  13. whis

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    #213 whis, Feb 4, 2016
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    I see this, i had --balancetomaintain 200 and --ticketmaxprice 5, but i dont have any test decred in my wallet though.

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    #214 sambiohazard, Feb 4, 2016
    I am not sure why you & @neo cortex are getting those errors. I just tried my own guide to check if i mad any mistakes in it but i get no errors. Just make sure your wallet is unlocked & you didn't create a public passphrase during wallet creation. I hope someone else can come in and solve your problem.
     
  15. whis

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    #215 whis, Feb 4, 2016
    Now i tried again and this time i see the command DCRW: The wallet has been unlocked without a time limit, but not sure about the rest of the commands thats showing up.
    sn.PNG
     
  16. davecgh

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    #216 davecgh, Feb 4, 2016
    For reference, a new Windows cgminer binary will be released today that works properly with TLS and has a new parameter "-cert" to specify the appropriate certificate. The included start_local.bat will now include the new -cert parameter with it pointed at the default location.

    In other words, once the binaries are released, I'd suggest this guide be updated to remove all of the --notls, --noclienttls, and --noservertls switches everywhere since they will no longer be necessary.
     
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  17. jimmy16

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    #217 jimmy16, Feb 4, 2016
    how do i connect to test-net, ?
    1) run node for PoS...
    2) run cgminer..
    need ./cgminer --blake256 --???????????
     
  18. sambiohazard

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    #218 sambiohazard, Feb 4, 2016
    steps 13 & 14.
     
  19. jimmy16

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    #219 jimmy16, Feb 4, 2016
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    Im on linux cent OS , there is NO bat file for Linux in the tar pack
    it has a blake256.cl but thats for algo

    so.. your winbat =
    cgminer --blake256 -o 127.0.0.1:19109 -u user -p password

    So.. $ sudo ./cgminer --blake256 -o 127.0.0.1:19109 -u name -P pass
    but returns libcurl.so.4 error and extra commandline arguments
     
  20. sambiohazard

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    #220 sambiohazard, Feb 4, 2016
    yeah, i am not sure what file linux has but you can always paste above full command in terminal/command window to start the miner. Also remember to use same user/pass as daemon/dcrd.
     
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