I woke up this morning to a telegram message from @stoner announcing a new SmokeD version release and got super excited. Both to see development and to be able to give back to this community som more!
Hotbox v2.0.1
This version is now live and has an updated install script for new witnesses and a new script called update.sh to make the move to Smoked v0.0.6 as easy as possible.
New Witnesses
Follow this guide if you are starting up a fresh witness. There is even a video tutorial linked in this post in hopes to make your new adventure start off on the right foot. If you see anything wrong or get stuck please feel free to message me via Discord. You can find me as jrswab in the official Smoke Discord group.
Existing Hotbox Users
- Enter the Hotbox by running `run.sh
a. (if you are still on V1 update to V2 first) - Disable your witness
a.update_witness "username" "url" "SMK1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm" {} true
b. Replace username and url with your information.
c. Copy and paste the command into the CLI_Wallet.
d. Wait for it to broadcast. You will see some yellow words scroll by and then a group of grayish-white text. - Close your wallet with
ctrl+d - Type
exitto close current tmux window.
a. If after this you do not see the witness output close the current tmux window again. - Shut down smoked with
ctrl+c - Type
exitto close Docker docker rm hotboxcd ~/hotboxdocker pull jrswab/hotbox
a. This will pull the version tagged as latest.
b. As of this posting "latest" is version 2.0.1./run.sh./update.sh./smoked.sh
a. Watch this for a bit to make sure you are seeing new blocks
b. If you are seeing errors you may need to delete the blockchain data and re-sync.ctrl+bc./wallet.sh- Unlock the wallet
- Re-enable your witness.
a.update_witness "username" "url" "Brain Wallet Public Key Here" {} true
b. Replace username and url with your information.
c. Copy and paste the command into the CLI_Wallet.
d. Wait for it to broadcast. You will see some yellow words scroll by and then a group of grayish-white text. - Re-lock your wallet with
lock ctrl+b0to see witness log- To leave the hotbox
a.ctrl+bcto get an empty tmux window
b.ctrl+hto exit docker and keep in running
c. Once out usedocker ps -ato make sure your docker hotbox is still running.
Thanks for using the Hotbox and please let me know if you have any questions.
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Any plans to add server security set up to hotbox? I'm afraid we are going to end up with newbies that are running as root with no firewall which puts the whole chain in jeopardy.
I have thought a lot about this and am still figuring out a good way to go about it.
From the Docker side of things it is secure but the witness running the server that the hotbox is one does need to take steps. I do mention in the setup post that everyone needs to follow the official guide to make sure they are as secure as possible.
I hope you can figure something out because I think a lot of newbies are just excited to get it running and seeing blocks produced and will forgo or procrastinate on the security implementation. BTW, I don't see anything mentioned in the set up post. https://smoke.io/guide/@jrswab/how-to-start-a-new-witness-with-hotbox-2-0-0
Must have been in the first... Crap, I thought I put it in there. I'll add it to the official repo today.
Is there any kind of way to do a worker system on Smoke? It would be cool to incentivize well run public RPC nodes ... and keeping witness criteria to a high standard
Sure a worker system would be possible, but I'm not aware of any being worked on. Another option would be to restructure the witness reward pool so that those running a witness earn X per block, those running a witness + seed earn X + Y, and those running a witness + RPC earn X + Z.
No way to tell the load on rpc..I can just run rpc and limit the connections . Doesn't ass any good to the network and I collect extra smoke.
yes, additional controls would need to be added as well.
I think it's a good idea personally. Also would be forward thinking to add in IPFS to these roles. As IPFS carries content through the blockchain as well already