Building a whive node (Part 2)

This tutorial continues from Part 1 which can be found here make sure you go through it before going through this.

Step 8: Generating a whive address

We then need to create an address in which we can use to receive whive tokens. You can do this by running

whive-cli getnewaddress

On the same directory which is whive/src folder. This will output an address that we will use later.

Change your directory to the home directory and clone the cpuminer directory.

cd 
git clone https://github.com/cryptozeny/cpuminer-mc-yespower.git

Some dependencies are needed so that we are able to build the cpuminer. Run the following commands to install the dependencies.

sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev

Once the dependencies are installed, we can now build by running the command

./build.sh

Cpuminer can be set up to run on the raspberry pi itself. To do this we run the following command with the address we generated earlier.

./minerd -a yespower -o http://127.0.0.1:1867 -u whive -p pass --no-longpoll --no-getwork --no-stratum  --coinbase-addr=generatedaddress -t 3

Give it some time. You should be able to see some logs indicating that some rewards are coming in.

It is also possible to join a mining pool to increase the odds of getting mining rewards. We can do this by running

./minerd -a yespower -o stratum+tcp://34.73.100.13:3333 -u generateaddress.w1 -t 3

Give it some time. Once we have let it run for a line, we can go to the site http://34.73.100.13/workers and check if our generated address shows up.

With this walk through, we were able to