Downstream Farmer v0.1.7

Windows

Steps for getting up and running:

1. Download the attached zip file.

2. Unzip the file.

3. The uncompressed directory should contain downstream.exe and a directory data which contains identities.json.

4. You will need to created a signed message in order to prove that you own the SJCX address you would like to farm with.

5. To do this, open your favorite wallet software (Counterwallet, Electrum, and Multibit have been tested, if another piece of software works, let us know), and sign a message of your choice. For instance, on Counterwallet, perform the following steps:

   1. In Address Actions click Sign Message.
      
   2. Type a message of your choice, and click Sign.
      
   3. Then, open data/identities.json in your favorite text editor (Notepad will work fine), and copy and paste your Address, the message you typed, and the created signature. Use the JSON format shown, or you will not be able to connect.
      
   4. Save the file. Now data/identities.json contains a signed message proving ownership of your SJCX address.

6. Finally, run the following command in the uncompressed directory:

   .\downstream.exe http://node.example.org --size 1073741824

   which should request 1GiB of data from the node.example.org node and then begin proving challenges. If you would like to contribute more hard drive space for the test, specify a larger size.

Note: the changes required to support large sizes have not been propagated to our cluster yet, so you may get errors if you attempt to connect to live.driveshare.org before we push the appropriate changes.

Due to the nature of this test, the farmer will run out of challenges after 256 heartbeats, and will automatically request a new data chunk to fill the requested space. You will see this occur if you leave your farmer running for approximately 4 and a half hours.

You can see the data chunks your farmer is hosting by browsing to the data/chunks directory.