High performance Node.js (with native C addons) mining pool for CryptoNote based coins such as Electroneum, Monero, Bytecoin, QuazarCoin, HoneyPenny, etc.. Comes with lightweight example front-end script which uses the pool's AJAX API.
- TCP (stratum-like) protocol for server-push based jobs
- Compared to old HTTP protocol, this has a higher hash rate, lower network/CPU server load, lower orphan block percent, and less error prone
- IP banning to prevent low-diff share attacks
- Socket flooding detection
- Payment processing
- Splintered transactions to deal with max transaction size
- Minimum payment threshold before balance will be paid out
- Minimum denomination for truncating payment amount precision to reduce size/complexity of block transactions
- Detailed logging
- Ability to configure multiple ports - each with their own difficulty
- Variable difficulty / share limiter
- Share trust algorithm to reduce share validation hashing CPU load
- Clustering for vertical scaling
- Modular components for horizontal scaling (pool server, database, stats/API, payment processing, front-end)
- Live stats API (using AJAX long polling with CORS)
- Currency network/block difficulty
- Current block height
- Network hashrate
- Pool hashrate
- Each miners' individual stats (hashrate, shares submitted, pending balance, total paid, etc)
- Blocks found (pending, confirmed, and orphaned)
- An easily extendable, responsive, light-weight front-end using API to display data
- Worker login validation (make sure miners are using proper wallet addresses for mining)
- http://etn.kkmining.club/ <-- Hongkong Pool 0.1% fee
- https://easyhash.io/pools/etn
- http://etn.proxpool.com <- cloud based, high efficiency, EU Pool Server, 0% fee
- https://easyhash.io/pools/etn
- https://etn.mymininghub.com/
- https://dedpool.io/etn <- US Pool
- http://etn.pool.nocroom.com < - cloud based, US Pool Server
- http://etn.bl0ck.party <- Atlanta, GA, USA -- 0.5% fee
- https://www.etn.rustylock.club - cloud based, high efficiency, EU Pool Server
- https://supportetn.eu - nodejs-pool, EU Pool Server, 0.2 % fee
- A non root user. To intall & run the pool, you should do so as a user that is NOT root. Running as root will cause issues.
- Coin daemon electroneum repo
- To compile the coin you'll need several packages as detailed in the repo's readme. A quick one line command is below:
sudo apt install build-essential cmake pkg-config libboost-all-dev libssl-dev libunbound-dev
- NVM to install v0.10.48. Follow the instructions for installing nvm (Node Version Manager). Then type
nvm install 0.10.48
. Once finished, typenvm use 0.10.48
. - Redis key-value store v2.6+ (follow these instructions)
- libssl required for the node-multi-hashing module
- For Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
- For Ubuntu:
- Boost is required for the cryptonote-util module
- For Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
- For Ubuntu:
- Screen - for running the different parts of the pool in the background. This may come pre-installed on some systems.
- For Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install screen
- Usage:
screen -S daemond
<--- Use to run the daemond
screen -S rpc
<---- Use to run rpc
screen -S website
< --- use to run website
screen -list
<---- List screens
screen -x website
<--- reconnect to screen website
CTRL + a
thenCTRL + d
<----- detatch from a screen
- For Ubuntu:
- This version of node.js is required to run the cryptonight-util and node-multi-hashing modules. These modules were created by other users and currently only work with Node.js 0.10.48. Please ensure that you have this version of node.js installed before opening an issue asking for help.
Those are legitimate requirements. If you use a different version of Node.js or Redis that may come with your system package manager then you will have problems. Follow the linked instructions to get the last stable versions.
Redis security warning: be sure firewall access to redis - an easy way is to
include bind 127.0.0.1
in your redis.conf
file. Also it's a good idea to learn about and understand software that
you are using - a good place to start with redis is data persistence.
Clone the repository and run npm update
for all the dependencies to be installed:
git clone https://github.com/electroneum/electroneum-pool.git pool
cd pool
npm update
Firstly, You'll need to download & compile the daemon source code found here
Secondly, Start a screen session, e.g screen -S daemon
. Then run ./electroneumd
wherever the compiled binaries are. This will download the blockchain. You'll need to wait until you're fully synced before continuing.
Thirdly, Once synced you'll need to create a wallet. Detatch from the screen session using CTRL + A, CTRL + D
(This works for me on putty). Open up another screen session, e.g screen -S wallet
. Then run ./electroneum-wallet-cli
wherever the compiled binaries are, This will take your through creating a wallet. Once generated, type exit
to close the wallet.
Lastly you need to start the wallet RPC server which makes the payments to your miners. This can be started using ./electroneum-wallet-rpc --wallet-file walletfilename --password walletfilepassword --rpc-bind-port 26969 --disable-rpc-login
walletfilename
& walletfilepassword
are what you supplied when generating the wallet. You can change the port, just remember to change it in the config.json file.
[Security Warning]We strongly recommend that you transfer funds out of this wallet regularly. This way, if your server is comprimised you won't lose all your profits. Bear in mind you'll need to leave enough to pay any outstanding payments to miners.
Warning for Cryptonote coins other than Electroneum: this software may or may not work with any given cryptonote coin. Be wary of altcoins that change the number of minimum coin units because you will have to reconfigure several config values to account for those changes. Unless you're offering a bounty reward - do not open an issue asking for help getting a coin other than electroneum working with this software.
Copy the config_example.json
file to config.json
then overview each options and change any to match your preferred setup.
Explanation for each field:
{
"coin": "electroneum",
"symbol": "ETN",
"logging": {
"files": {
"level": "info",
"directory": "logs",
"flushInterval": 5
},
"console": {
"level": "info",
"colors": true
}
},
"poolServer": {
"enabled": true,
"clusterForks": "auto",
"poolAddress": "WALLETADDRESSHERE",
"blockRefreshInterval": 1000,
"minerTimeout": 900,
"ports": [
{
"port": 3333,
"difficulty": 100,
"desc": "Low end hardware"
},
{
"port": 5555,
"difficulty": 2000,
"desc": "Mid range hardware"
},
{
"port": 7777,
"difficulty": 10000,
"desc": "High end hardware"
}
],
"varDiff": {
"minDiff": 2,
"maxDiff": 100000,
"targetTime": 100,
"retargetTime": 30,
"variancePercent": 30,
"maxJump": 100
},
"shareTrust": {
"enabled": true,
"min": 10,
"stepDown": 3,
"threshold": 10,
"penalty": 30
},
"banning": {
"enabled": true,
"time": 600,
"invalidPercent": 25,
"checkThreshold": 30
},
"slushMining": {
"enabled": false,
"weight": 300,
"lastBlockCheckRate": 1
}
},
"payments": {
"enabled": true,
"interval": 600,
"maxAddresses": 10,
"mixin": 0,
"transferFee": 1,
"minPayment": 10000,
"denomination": 100
},
"blockUnlocker": {
"enabled": true,
"interval": 30,
"depth": 20,
"poolFee": 1.8,
"devDonation": 0.1,
"coreDevDonation": 0.1
},
"api": {
"enabled": true,
"hashrateWindow": 600,
"updateInterval": 3,
"port": 8117,
"blocks": 30,
"payments": 30,
"password": "test"
},
"daemon": {
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 26968
},
"wallet": {
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 26969
},
"redis": {
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 6379,
"auth": null
}
}
Your miners that are Windows users can use cryptonote-easy-miner
which will automatically generate their wallet address and stratup multiple threads of simpleminer. You can download
it and edit the config.ini
file to point to your own pool.
Inside the easyminer
folder, edit config.init
to point to your pool details
pool_host=example.com
pool_port=5555
Rezip and upload to your server or a file host. Then change the easyminerDownload
link in your config.json
file to
point to your zip file.
node init.js
The file config.json
is used by default but a file can be specified using the -config=file
command argument, for example:
node init.js -config=config_backup.json
This software contains four distinct modules:
pool
- Which opens ports for miners to connect and processes sharesapi
- Used by the website to display network, pool and miners' dataunlocker
- Processes block candidates and increases miners' balances when blocks are unlockedpayments
- Sends out payments to miners according to their balances stored in redis
By default, running the init.js
script will start up all four modules. You can optionally have the script start
only start a specific module by using the -module=name
command argument, for example:
node init.js -module=api
Example screenshot of running the pool in single module mode with tmux.
Simply host the contents of the website_example
directory on file server capable of serving simple static files.
Edit the variables in the website_example/config.js
file to use your pool's specific configuration.
Variable explanations:
/* Must point to the API setup in your config.json file. */
var api = "http://poolhost:8117";
/* Minimum units in a single coin, for Electroneum its 100. */
var coinUnits = 100;
/* Pool server host to instruct your miners to point to. */
var poolHost = "poolhost.com";
/* IRC Server and room used for embedded KiwiIRC chat. */
var irc = "irc.freenode.net/#electroneum";
/* Contact email address. */
var email = "[email protected]";
/* Market stat display params from https://www.cryptonator.com/widget - Not used for Electroneum pool */
var cryptonatorWidget = ["XMR-BTC", "XMR-USD", "XMR-EUR", "XMR-GBP"];
/* Download link to cryptonote-easy-miner for Windows users. */
var easyminerDownload = "https://github.com/zone117x/cryptonote-easy-miner/releases/";
/* Used for front-end block links. */
var blockchainExplorer = "https://blockexplorer.electroneum.com/block/";
/* Used by front-end transaction links. */
var transactionExplorer = "https://blockexplorer.electroneum.com/tx";
The following files are included so that you can customize your pool website without having to make significant changes
to index.html
or other front-end files thus reducing the difficulty of merging updates with your own changes:
custom.css
for creating your own pool stylecustom.js
for changing the functionality of your pool website
Then simply serve the files via nginx, Apache, Google Drive, or anything that can host static content.
You can configure the API to be accessible via SSL using various methods. Find an example for nginx below:
- Inside your SSL Listener add the following:
location /json_rpc {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:26968/json_rpc;
}
location ~ ^/api/(.*) {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8117/$1$is_args$args;
}
By adding this you will need to make your api
variable in the website_example/config.js
include the /api. For example:
var api = "http://poolhost/api";
You no longer need to include the port in the variable because of the proxy connection.
When updating to the latest code its important to not only git pull
the latest from this repo, but to also update
the Node.js modules, and any config files that may have been changed.
- Inside your pool directory (where the init.js script is) do
git pull
to get the latest code. - Remove the dependencies by deleting the
node_modules
directory withrm -r node_modules
. - Run
npm update
to force updating/reinstalling of the dependencies. - Compare your
config.json
to the latest example ones in this repo or the ones in the setup instructions where each config field is explained. You may need to modify or add any new changes.
- ETN:
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- XMR:
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- LucasJones - Co-dev on this project; did tons of debugging for binary structures and fixing them. Pool couldn't have been made without him.
- surfer43 - Did lots of testing during development to help figure out bugs and get them fixed
- wallet42 - Funded development of payment denominating and min threshold feature
- Wolf0 - Helped try to deobfuscate some of the daemon code for getting a bug fixed
- Tacotime - helping with figuring out certain problems and lead the bounty for this project's creation
Released under the GNU General Public License v2