Witness node guide

Witness node requirements

1. Minimum balance of 100k LLC and the lifetime subscription.
2. If your balance goes lower than 100k LLC, your witness node will become inactive, even if you have enough votes.
3. If your node goes offline it will become inactive even if you have 100k LLC balance and enough votes - keep your node running at all time 24/7.
4. Your server must have 32GB of RAM DDR4 2100Mhz minimum, 2×500GB SATA 6Gb/s Enterprise HDD 7200 rpm(or 2×500GB SSD), Intel® Xeon® E5-1650 v3 Hexa-Core

1st step - Download and start Linux application using compiled binaries.

wget https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-core/releases/download/1.0.2/Localcoin-Core-1.0.2-Linux.tgz
tar -xvf witness-wallet_linuxbin_v1.tar.gz
cd witness-wallet_linuxbin/witness_node

2nd step - Starting the node and witness registration process, read this:

http://dev.localcoin.is/en/latest/llc_guide/tutorials/witness_node.html#howto-become-active-witness

3rd step - Setup NGINX read this:

https://dev.localcoin.is/en/latest/llc_guide/tutorials/distributed-access-hosting.html#install-nginx

4th step - install the SSL sertificate

https://dev.localcoin.is/en/latest/llc_guide/tutorials/distributed-access-hosting.html#install-letsencrypt

5th step - Add SSL to Nginx settings

https://dev.localcoin.is/en/latest/llc_guide/tutorials/distributed-access-hosting.html#add-ssl-to-nginx-settings

6th step - SSL test

https://dev.localcoin.is/en/latest/llc_guide/tutorials/distributed-access-hosting.html#ssl-test

also recommend reading additional information

https://dev.localcoin.is/en/latest/llc_guide/tutorials/witness-create-xxxx.html https://dev.localcoin.is/en/latest/llc_guide/tutorials/witness-howto.html https://dev.localcoin.is/en/latest/llc_guide/tutorials/index.html#witness-full-node-guide