Galactrum (ORE) Manual Masternode Guide

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Generate Masternode Key...

    ./galactrum-cli masternode genkey

Generate new receiving address...

    ./galactrum-cli getnewaddress

Send 1000 ORE transaction to yourself (somehow)

    ./galactrum-cli sendtoaddress GWo3K96rtPKzqVXnqakboJ5CC1x5W6SVdd 1000

Grab transaction output

    ./galactrum-cli masternode outputs

Add masternode info to masternode.conf Have IP address of server.

    vi ~/.galactrum/masternode.conf
    
File should look like this format

    Alias IP:Port genkey Transaction Vout
    
And with values filled out

    mn0 198.58.120.187:6270 7sHdbUT8Q3gYLWPXk28nx48GCL5SYDTceLtjyCjHX8e7AxJ7ed7 65e7e9192a749e10a8e861d7c0ecf5098dcc4d0a5d37d74174e52a83fc97c6a7 1


Restart the wallet

    ./galactrum-cli stop
    ./galactrumd -daemon

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Log in to the VPS!

Create user

    adduser aronschatz

Add to sudo group...

    visudo

Log in as that user

Update system and install Bitcoin PPA and other packages

    sudo apt-get -y update
    sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common
    sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
    sudo apt-get -y update
    sudo apt-get -y install git libevent-dev libboost-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev libminiupnpc-dev ufw virtualenv python-pip dh-autoreconf pkg-config build-essential libssl-dev
    sudo apt-get -y upgrade
    
Reboot

    sudo reboot

Configure swap (just in case)

    sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
    sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
    sudo mkswap /swapfile
    sudo swapon /swapfile
    echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

Configure Firewall

    sudo ufw default deny incoming
    sudo ufw default allow outgoing
    sudo ufw allow ssh
    sudo ufw allow 6270/tcp
    sudo ufw enable
    
Get source and compile

    cd ~
    mkdir masternode
    cd masternode
    git clone https://github.com/galactrum/galactrum.git
    cd galactrum
    ./autogen.sh
    ./configure
    make

Move to /usr/bin

    cd src
    sudo mv ./galactrum-cli /usr/bin/
    sudo mv ./galactrumd /usr/bin/
    sudo mv ./galactrum-tx /usr/bin/
    
Test it

    galactrumd -daemon
    galactrum-cli getinfo
    galactrum-cli stop

Setup config

    vi ~/.galactrum/galactrum.conf
    
    rpcuser=[randomstring]
    rpcpassword=[randomstring2]
    rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
    listen=1
    server=1
    daemon=1
    logtimestamps=1
    maxconnections=256
    externalip=IP
    masternodeprivkey=[MASTERNODEGENKEY]
    masternode=1

Start the daemon again

    galactrumd -daemon

Install sentinel

    cd ~/masternode/galactrum
    git clone https://github.com/galactrum/sentinel
    cd ~/masternode/galactrum/sentinel
    virtualenv venv
    . venv/bin/activate
    pip install -r requirements.txt
    deactivate

Make sentinel run by cron and start daemon upon reboot

    crontab -e
    
    * * * * * cd /home/USERNAME/masternode/galactrum/sentinel && ./venv/bin/python bin/sentinel.py >/dev/null 2>&1
    @reboot galactrumd -daemon
    
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Start the masternode on the personal wallet side.

    ./galactrum-cli masternode start-alias ALIAS