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Crypto - Chia - Initialize
Initialize the nodes and save your private keys
# Activate the virtual environment in dir chia-blockchain . ./activate
Start the wallet and generate your private key as well as passphrase
chia init
WARNING: Do not share your private keys and passphrase with anyone else.
Start the services
chia start farmer
NOTE: This will start the farmer, harvester, a full node, and the wallet.
- Adding -r at the end will restart the service.
Start plotting
Identify which drive you want to do the plotting on.
WARNING: It is not a good idea to do this on the drive that your boot lives on.
First, lets use tmux to help ensure this runs after we disconnect
sudo apt-get install tmux -y# Start tmux tmux new -s plot# Activate venv cd chia-blockchain . ./activate
The simplest command to get started with running a plot.
# k = 32, this controls the size of plot. Minimum is 32 # n = 100, Number of plots, pick a high number # t = folder location, this is where the plot gets generated with heavy Reads/Writes. You want this to be a faster drive. # d = destination folder, this is the destination for where you want the final plot will stay, slower is fine.chia plots create -k 32 -n 100 -t /mnt/a/generating_plots/ -d /mnt/a/plots/
NOTE: To disconnect from tmux, ctrl-b then d. To reattach, tmux a -t plot
This it! You are now generating plots.
As soon as a plot finishes, the farmer that we started earlier will pick it up and start farming.
Verify that farming is working
Verify this you can run while having the venv activated:
chia farm summary
Initially you should see something like this:
Farming status: Farming Total chia farmed: 0.0 User transaction fees: 0.0 Block rewards: 0.0 Last height farmed: 0 Plot count: 4 Total size of plots: 405.432 GiB Estimated network space: 2185.329 PiB Expected time to win: 2 years and 11 months