Launching the Miner Technical

How to launch the miner

This instructions describe how to install the miner to a clean AWS Ubuntu/Linux box that is at minimum a t2.small (or you will run into data limitations).

You will be creating 7 files using the nano command and copying and pasting the code included below for each file.

• Open a terminal connected to your AWS instance and run the following commands:

wget https://github.com/tellor-io/TellorMiner/releases/latest/download/TellorMiner 

Create and update the following three variables within the config.json file:

• node_url: (enter your own infura / node address)
• publicAddress: (note no “0x” prefix)
• privateKey: (note no “0x” prefix)

https://github.com/tellor-io/TellorMiner/blob/master/config.json

*Download the most recent PSR.json file:

https://github.com/tellor-io/TellorMiner/blob/master/psr.json

Now you can run the miner:

./TellorMiner -miner -dataServer -psrPath=./psr.json -config=./config.json -logConfig=./loggingconfig.json

Required Flags

• -psrPath (path to your PSR file)
• -config (path to your config file)

Optional Flags

• -miner (indicates to run the miner)
• -dataServer (indicates to run the dataServer)
• -transfer -toAddress -amount (do not run these with miner/dataServer)(indicates transfer, toAddress is Ethereum address and amount is number of Tributes (note 18 decimals))
• -deposit (do not run these with miner/dataServer)(indicates to deposit 1000 tokens in the contract (note you must have 1000 Tributes in your account))
• -logConfig (path to loggingConfig file if you want to save log output)

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• To update Tellor miner run:

wget https://github.com/tellor-io/TellorMiner/releases/latest/download/TellorMiner