Personal Note: Installing an Alephium full node
14/12/2022
Cryptocurrency Node
I. Alephium node config - $ALEPHIUM_HOME/user.conf
alephium.network.external-address="x.x.x.x:9973"
alephium.api.network-interface = "0.0.0.0"
alephium.mining.api-interface="0.0.0.0"
alephium.mining.miner-addresses=[
"miner_address_1",
"miner_address_2",
"miner_address_3",
"miner_address_4",
]
II. Systemctl EnvironmentFile - /opt/alephium/alephium.env
ALEPHIUM_HOME=/mnt/CaHeoNas/disk_3/Alephium
III. Systemctl service - /etc/systemd/system/alephium.service
[Unit]
Description=Alphelium Full Node
After=network.target mnt-CaHeoNas-disk_3.mount
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/opt/alephium
EnvironmentFile=/opt/alephium/alephium.env
ExecStart=java -jar -Xms512m -Xmx1028m alephium-1.0.0.jar
User=nguyenvinhlinh
RemainAfterExit=yes
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
IV. Firewall-cmd service - /etc/firewalld/services/alephium.xml
Port List:
- 9973: p2p
- 10973: miner
- 12973: api (danger to expose to the internet.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<service>
<short>Alephium node</short>
<description>
This option allows Alephium node to use tcp port 9973, 10973
</description>
<port protocol="tcp" port="9973"/>
<port protocol="tcp" port="10973"/>
</service>
IV. Balance checking script
All Credit goes this guy Mark Rahmani (diomark#8272) https://www.facebook.com/diomark/
#!/bin/zsh
#first need to unlock wallet. not putting password in here
#check wallet
curlResult=`curl -X 'GET' 'http://127.0.0.1:12973/wallets/MINER_WALLET_NAME/balances' -H 'accept: application/json' 2>/dev/null | json_pp | grep totalBalanceHint| cut -f1 -d","`
lastdate=`date +%s`
if echo $curlResult | grep -q ALPH; then
datestr=`date +"%x %R"`
echo -n "$datestr "
echo Wallet unlocked - $curlResult;
else
echo Please unlock wallet first
exit
fi
while true; do
oldResult=$curlResult
datestr=`date +"%x %R"`; echo -n "."; curlResult=`curl -X 'GET' 'http://127.0.0.1:12973/wallets/MINER_WALLET_NAME/balances' -H 'accept: application/json' 2>/dev/null | json_pp | grep totalBalanceHint| cut -f1 -d","`
if [ "$oldResult" != "" ]; then
if [ "$curlResult" != "$oldResult" ]; then
echo
echo -n "$datestr "
newdate=`date +%s`
secs=`expr $newdate - $lastdate`
mins=`expr $secs / 60`
echo -n "Won a block after $mins minutes! "
echo $curlResult
lastdate=$newdate
fi
fi
sleep 30
done
