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Crypto - Chia - CLI - Run

Activate the virtual environment

cd chia-blockchain
. ./activate

Start the wallet and generate your private key as well as passphrase

chia init

WARNING: Do not share your private keys and passphrase with anyone else.

init checks for old versions of chia installed in the ~/.chia directory.
- If so, init migrates these old files to the new version:
  - config (including old SSL files)
  - db
  - wallet
  - Using config.yaml, updates wallet keys and ensures rewards go to the right wallet.

If no old version exists, init:
- Creates a default chia configuration
- Initializes a new SSL key and cert (for secure communication with the GUI).

Start the services

chia start farmer

NOTE: This will start the farmer, harvester, a full node, and the wallet.

Adding -r at the end will restart the service.

Start plotting

Identify which drive you want to do the plotting on.

WARNING: It is not a good idea to do this on the drive that your boot lives on.

chia plots create -k 32 -n 100 -t /mnt/chia-temp/ -d /mnt/chia/

NOTE:

k 32: The size of plot.
- Minimum is 32.
n 100: The number of plots in sequence.
t /mnt/chia-temp/: The temporary directory, where the plot gets generated with heavy Reads/Writes.
- Ideally this should be on a faster drive.
d /mnt/chia: The final destination directory, where the final plot will stay to be farmed.
- A slower disk is fine here.

NOTE: To disconnect from tmux, ctrl-b then d.

To reattach, tmux a -t plot

This it! You are now generating plots.

As soon as a plot finishes, the farmer that will pick it up and start farming.

Verify that farming is working

Verify this you can run while having the venv activated:

chia farm summary

Initially you should see something like this:

Farming status: Farming
Total chia farmed: 0.0
User transaction fees: 0.0
Block rewards: 0.0
Last height farmed: 0
Plot count: 4
Total size of plots: 405.432 GiB
Estimated network space: 2185.329 PiB
Expected time to win: 2 years and 11 months

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