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

Thanks, I did and they solved my problem. Turns out everything I did was right exept I was using a different cgminer version that does not work with decred testnet. I'm now running cgminer found here: https://github.com/decred/cgminer/releases/tag/v0.0
only downside is that this cgminer is 32bit in stead of 64 and gives me half the performance. cgminer 32bit about 900 MH/s and cgminer 64bit 1.6 GH/s in a blake256 benchmark. Hope someone can fix this in the future

 

Used this guide to get started on testnet. Thanks! Was very helpful.

Although a cumbersome process for now. It got the job done. Hopefully a simpler GUI or easier method to come soon, as it may be very difficult for people with absolutely no experience with command line.

 

What is the notls flag? and where did you find it?

 

I believe TLS is a security method like SSL that does not seem to work on decred Windows (yet) if you forget the notls or noclienttls and noservertls then the software will not try connecting without it and connection might fail. without there options it might start complaining about a certificate that can't be found

 

Windows people, do not forget the --notls for the dcrd or the --noclienttls for the dcrwallet:

dcrd.exe --notls -u YourUserName -P YourPassword --miningaddr=YourNewDecredAddress
dcrwallet --dcrdusername=YourUserName --dcrdpassword=YourPassword --noclienttls

 

Hi

Command for my balance?

Thanks

 

@sambiohazard

To do PoS mining what do i need to do different from your guide?

 

https://wiki.decred.org/Solo_Stake_Mining

 

In step 3 dcrctl --wallet --testnet -u user -P password --terminal it says NOTE currently --terminal does not work on Windows. Instead you have to use dcrctl to run each command you need seperately.

How do i use dcrctl?

 

Thanks, so i went ahead and started deamon with dcrd --testnet -u 'my username' -P 'my password'

Then i opened a new cmd window and inserted dcrwallet --create, which says the wallet already exists, cus i made already one for pow.

But then when i insert in the same window dcrctl --wallet --testnet -u 'my username' (same as deamon) -P 'my password' --terminal it says: error getting terminal state: The handle is invalid.

 

When i insert this: dcrwallet --noclienttls --noservertls -u 'my username' -P 'my password' --dcrdusername= 'my username' --dcrdpassword= 'my password' --balancetomaintain 200 --maxticketprice 20

it gives me this line: unknown flag `maxticketprice'

 

Np, for the last command

1. dcrctl --notls --testnet -u walletuser -P walletpass --wallet walletpassphrase [same as in step 4 during wallet creation] 0

I have no walletpassphrase since when creating wallet the first time i choose no when it asked me if i wanted a passphrase. Is the walletpassphrase neccessary for pos mining?

 

When I started my wallet for PoS I used :
sudo ./dcrwallet -u xxx -P xxx --enablestakemining --balancetomaintain=1 --ticketmaxprice=5,

I would like to change balanceto mintain to =50

so with wallet runing i used :
sudo ./dcrwallet -u c18 -P pass --enablestakemining --balancetomaintain=50 --ticketmaxprice=5
ans the term just freezes..

in the dcrctl term > there is no command to do this.. change balancetomain.

So i to stopped wallet and dcrd out put.
Disconnected websocket client 127.0.0.1:45941
10:37:22 2016-02-02 [INF] RPCS: New websocket client 127.0.0.1:45311
10:37:24 2016-02-02 [INF] RPCS: Beginning rescan for 300 addresses
10:37:24 2016-02-02 [INF] RPCS: Finished rescan
and stoped

my dcrd , and wallet will not restart.

$ sudo ./dcrd --testnet -u xxx -P xxx
10:43:08 2016-02-02 [WRN] DCRD: open /root/.dcrd/dcrd.conf: no such file or directory
10:43:08 2016-02-02 [INF] DCRD: Version 0.0.1-beta
10:43:08 2016-02-02 [INF] DCRD: Loading block database from '/root/.dcrd/data/testnet/blocks_leveldb'
10:43:08 2016-02-02 [ERR] DCRD: resource temporarily unavailable

 

O boy i dont know it anymore, is it not possible to start over and create a new wallet and new passphrase, or something else to retereive my passphrase? Glad this is testnet.