Install a Ravencoin Full Node on your HiveOS rig in 5 minutes

Hey guys. I run the mining pool Ravenpool.ninja and Discord of the same name. Some of my miners were interested in running a Full Node for Ravencoin.

I describe how to do this step-by-step for HiveOS, Linux, and Windows

For full steps please read my Medium post

Someone had a novel idea of running a full-node on HiveOS since peoples mining rigs generally have high-uptime and many miners are using large SSD's (I don't know why).

So….I created a one-click install script since many users may not have proficiency with Linux.
What does the script do?

1. Expands the disk using disk-expand
2. Check avail disk space afterwards – exits if less than 38GB free space
3. Creates a raven user and system group
4. Downloads and installs Ravencoin version 4.6.1
5. Creates a raven.conf configuration file
6. Sets max node connections to 24 (to conserve bandwidth, minimize net traffic)
7. Sets wallet functions to "disabled"
8. Creates a systemd service to start Raven Full Node on boot/reboot
9. Launches the Raven daemon as a service

If you run the HiveOS install script, it installs and launches the full node in about 5 minutes.

Here is My Github repo as well.

More full nodes = a more resilient network.

I hope some of you guys mining RVN with HiveOS will consider running a Full Raven Node if your mining rig supports it; mostly disk space is the largest requirement. Or run a full node on your Windows PC following the directions on my post.

For full steps & caveats please read my Medium post

Thanks for reading!

– Luckyblocks