MadMax-Plotter - Linux guide

• First

A linux machine - this example uses Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS

Necessary access rights to install required packages, create users, set access rights ...

About 20 minutes of time..

A working installation of the chia client, up and synced (see https://www.chia.net/).

• Install

If you haven't already, create a user for your plotting needs.

I strongly recommend creating a fresh user for tools that have to do with your crypto projects.

We will create a user identified by 'plotter'.

If your machine is reachable by an public IP, you might want to block this user from directly logging in.

$ sudo adduser plotter $ sudo usermod -L plotter # Optional

Install some required tools:

$ sudo apt-get install -y libsodium-dev cmake g++ git build-essential

Switch to the user and cwd into the correct home directory:

$ sudo su plotter $ cd $ git clone -b pool-puzzles https://github.com/madMAx43v3r/chia-plotter.git

The output should look like this:

Cloning into 'chia-plotter'...

remote: Enumerating objects: 2092, done.

remote: Counting objects: 100% (946/946), done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (408/408), done.

remote: Total 2092 (delta 697), reused 612 (delta 537), pack-reused 1146

Receiving objects: 100% (2092/2092), 786.22 KiB | 4.23 MiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (1196/1196), done.

Enter the directory and execute some necessary commands to install requirements and compile the tool:

$ git submodule update --init


Submodule 'lib/BLAKE3' (https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3.git) registered for path 'lib/BLAKE3'

Submodule 'lib/bls-signatures' (https://github.com/madMAx43v3r/bls-signatures.git) registered for path 'lib/bls-signatures'

Submodule 'lib/libbech32' (https://github.com/dcdpr/libbech32.git) registered for path 'lib/libbech32'

Cloning into '/home/plotter/chia-plotter/lib/BLAKE3'...

Cloning into '/home/plotter/chia-plotter/lib/bls-signatures'...

Cloning into '/home/plotter/chia-plotter/lib/libbech32'...

Submodule path 'lib/BLAKE3': checked out '037de38bfec4e813ab6189a50cb7c4cbae47268a'

Submodule path 'lib/bls-signatures': checked out 'd9e42922e4a21fe8fc50733b93c16f582022621f'

Submodule path 'lib/libbech32': checked out '954b14fe81602dde0cf5cb6d45208403160fb76c'

$ ./make_devel.sh

This command will produce a lot of output while compiling. In the end, you should get a message indicating the compile was successful:

[...]


[ 99%] Built target bls

[100%] Built target chia_plot

Try to call the program and get the usage help information:

$ ./build/chia_plot --help

If you can see the following line in the output, you have successfully built the chia-plotter version compatible with pool plots:

-c, --contract arg Pool Contract Address (64 chars)

• Getting your keys and jumping in the pool

With the binary in place, it is time to check for the data required to create plots that fit your chia keys.

To get those keys, execute the following commands:

$ chia plotnft create -s local

It can take a little while until the transaction is confirmed. Once it is, execute:

$ chia plotnft show

source: [Pool.Garden]

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