Creating a Mining Pool

Prepare Server

Create AWS Account

Create an account with Amazon AWS.

Setup an Instance

On the home page, click the services tab and then go to compute and click 'EC2'. Once you are there you will chose your region on the top of the page in the header section. Next click the 'Launch Instance' button at the center of the page and then select an AMI. For this tutorial I am using Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS.

Next you will need to choose an instance type. I am just going to use the t2.large for the tutorial.

You can then skip to step six and under the source tap select my IP.

Next press Review and Launch and then create a new key pair to be able to connect with your instance. Once the instance is live, you can connect to your instance using an SSH through Terminal, PuTTY or similar program.

SSH into the Instance

1. Download key pair that you created earlier

2. Make sure you are in the same directory as the key and allow permissions

chmod 600 <key-name>.pem

1. SSH into instance

ssh -i <key-name>.pem ubuntu@<EC2-IP-Address>

Install Dependancies

sudo apt-get install aptitude

sudo aptitude update

sudo aptitude install –with-recommends build-essential autotools-dev autoconf automake libcurl3 libcurl4-gnutls-dev git make cmake libssl-dev pkg-config libevent-dev libunbound-dev libminiupnpc-dev doxygen supervisor jq libboost-all-dev htop

sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev git npm nodejs nodejs-legacy libminiupnpc-dev redis-server

add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin

sudo apt-get update

apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh -o install_nvm.sh

bash install_nvm.sh

• After npm is installed you will have to log out and then back into your instance and continue installing dependancies.

source ~/.profile

nvm install 0.10.48

nvm use 0.10.48

nvm alias default 0.10.48

nvm use default

• Install Apache2 for hosting the front end.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install apache2

• Adjust firewall to allow Apache full.

sudo ufw allow 'Apache Full'

Install Qwertycoin

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/qwertycoin-org/qwertycoin

cd ./qwertycoin

mkdir ./build

cd ./build

cmake ..

cmake --build . --config Release

Start Daemon and Let It Sync

 cd build/src

tmux

./qwertycoind

• Let the blockchain sync before continuing

• To sync the blockchain faster follow this guide
• control b + d to exit tmux

Start Simple Wallet and Follow Steps to Generate a New Wallet Address

• After you generated a new wallet exit it and run this:

tmux

./simplewallet --wallet-file <wallet_name> --password <wallet_password> --rpc-bind-port 8198

• control b + d to exit tmux

Install Pool Software

Install Dependancies

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libboost-all-dev

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/redis-server

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install redis-server

• Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/dvandal/cryptonote-nodejs-pool.git pool

cd pool && npm update

Pool Configuration

• Copy the config_examples/qwertycoin.json file to config.json

cp config_examples/qwertycoin.json config.json

Change the following variables: Line 2 - Pool host to your pools IP Address Line 30 - Your simplewallet address that you generated Line 138 - Set your API password Line 125-127 - (Optional) change pool fees

Copy website_example Files to html directory

sudo cp -rf js/ lang/ pages/ themes/ admin.html config.js index.html /var/www/html

Configuring website_example

• Edit config.js to use your pool's specific configuration

Start the Mining Pool

cd && cd pool

node init.js

• Your pool should now be visible at your server's IP address

• You can visit your admin page by appending admin.html to your server IP address in your browsers search bar like so:

http://server-ip-address/admin.html

• Your admin password is your API password you set earlier in config.json