Participate in consensus and strength our network by operating server to produce nodes.
Basic requirements:
Access to data-center fast internet (AWS, Azure, etc)
instance or better (3.75GB RAM, and 1 vCPU)
100 GB of storage or greater
Provide at least 98%+ uptime
Data-center is not required as long as you have access to high speed internet.
The process
Create a ticket Quanta-core with following .
Announce it our Quanta Telegram community
Reach out to us on Telegram
Once you have enough votes, you will voted in as an active block producer.
Creating a witness proposal
In order to become an active block producer, you must create a witness proposal on the blockchain.
First, upgrade account to be create yourself a witness proposal:
upgrade_account <accountname> true
>>> create_witness <accountname> "https://github.com/quantadex/quanta-core/issues/<your issue>" true
{
"ref_block_num": 139,
"ref_block_prefix": 3692461913,
"relative_expiration": 3,
"operations": [[
21,{
"fee": {
"amount": 0,
"asset_id": "1.3.0"
},
"witness_account": "1.2.16",
"url": "url-to-proposal",
"block_signing_key": "<PUBLIC KEY>",
"initial_secret": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
}
]
],
"signatures": [
"1f2ad5597af2ac4bf7a50f1eef2db49c9c0f7616718776624c2c09a2dd72a0c53a26e8c2bc928f783624c4632924330fc03f08345c8f40b9790efa2e4157184a37"
]
}
Voting for Witness
vote_for_witness <voting_account> <witness_account> true true
Vote will take effect after the maintenance window:
unlocked >>> get_dynamic_global_properties
get_dynamic_global_properties
{
"id": "2.1.0",
"head_block_number": 2283648,
"head_block_id": "0022d8802b618cf8447ed6f53c78cac25b053341",
"time": "2019-01-14T22:41:03", # <-- current time
"current_witness": "1.6.4",
"next_maintenance_time": "2019-01-15T00:00:00", # <--- maintenance window
"last_budget_time": "2019-01-14T00:00:01",
"witness_budget": 0,
"accounts_registered_this_interval": 11,
"recently_missed_count": 3,
"current_aslot": 2500579,
"recent_slots_filled": "334793941648020101144837524519280048061",
"dynamic_flags": 0,
"last_irreversible_block_num": 2283642
}
Configure your config.ini file to specify the node which witness you're producing as, and the block signing key.
witness-id = "1.6.10"
private-key = ["QAH7vQ7GmRSJfDHxKdBmWMeDMFENpmHWKn99J457BNApiX1T5TNM8","5JGi7DM7J8fSTizZ4D9roNgd8dUc5pirUe9taxYCUUsnvQ4zCaQ"]
# Run the node
quanta-node --data-dir data/testnet
