- Open your Windows wallet - MAKE SURE IT IS SYNCED WITH THE NETWORK
- Go to Tools -> Debug Console
- Type: getaccountaddress MN# (# is your masternode number you want to use)
- Send 1500 XBI to this address
- Go to Tools -> Debug Console
- Type: masternode outputs (This can take a minute before an output is shown)
- Type: masternode genkey
- Save your TX ID (The first number) and your Index Number (Second number, either a 1 or 0)
- Save your generated key as well as this will be needed in your VPS as your private key
- Save these with a notepad
- Close the wallet
- Move to Part 2 for now
- Connect to your linux vps AS ROOT (AWS USERS USE sudo -i TO LOGIN AS ROOT), copy and paste the following to get started:
cd && sudo apt-get -y install git && sudo git clone https://github.com/BTCIncognito/xbimn.git && cd xbimn/ && sudo bash install.sh
- follow the prompts closely and don't mess it up!
- Move to Part 3
- Open your wallet
- Go to Tools -> Open Masternode Configuration File
- Enter the following on one single line after the example configuration
<alias> <ip>:7250 <private_key> <tx_id> <index> - It should look something like this:
MN1 66.65.43.32:7250 87dfjnKNfdjNlwomdmKKMdkaNIE a3eofJJkdlMlfKokfmalmofO 0 - Save and close the file and restart your wallet.
- In your wallet, go to Tools -> Debug Console
- Wait for your transaction to your masternode address to have 16 confirmations - This is extremely important.
- Enter
startmasternode alias 0 <alias>with<alias>being the name of your masternode from Part 3 - Enjoy! You can start this process over again for another MN on a fresh Linux VPS!