Hi,
I just found this thread and find the concept interesting.
However, I can't find a tutorial on how to start participating in a few simple steps. Can someone post a link if there is one? The whitepaper and FAQ do not give much help, I'm afraid.
If there isn't one, can some kind soul answer a few questions. I only intend to act as a host.
- at the moment, just after installing the wallet, I get a notice about updating the wallet but I can't find any later release than 0.3.3.3. What is the problem here?
- I did get the update notice, I do not seem to download a blockchain and I have zero peers. Should something like a peer list be updated? For the moment I disabled all firewalls.
- I only intend to act as host and have xxx TB to share, but they are on separate rigs on my LAN and oblivious on a whole lot of HDDs. Do I have to announce each rig with the total storage capacity (or even announce each HDD)?
- To keep a single wallet, do I need to map every HDD to the rig with the wallet or is it possible to keep a single wallet (like mapping HDDs)?
- Should the disk be empty/formated or do I need to write something to them? I saw references to a GPU miner.
Sorry for being such a newbie, I just got a bit excited over this
I'm not sure why you got a notice that you should update. There is no release later than 0.3.3.3 at the moment (0.4.0 will be out very soon though).
I do not seem to download a blockchain and I have zero peers.
Did you try restarting? You won't be able to get the blockchain until you have peers. Are you on the same IP address as another node? If you are, then it will affect your ability to get peers (we're working on fixing that for 0.4.1)
Should the disk be empty/formated or do I need to write something to them?
Needs to be formatted. Siad will use your filesystem to store data.
To keep a single wallet, do I need to map every HDD to the rig with the wallet or is it possible to keep a single wallet (like mapping HDDs)
I think at this point ideally you'd have a separate instance of 'siad' for each machine you run. If you want everything on one wallet, you can give each machine the same wallet file. Run siad on one of them, encrypt and unlock the wallet, and then copy the resulting wallet.json to every other machine. There are pitfalls in doing that. For example, you should never move a wallet.json file while Sia is running.
We'll have a tutorial up sometime next week, but is sounds like your questions are outside of the scope of that tutorial anyway.
Thanks for dropping by!