{"id":990,"date":"2015-01-16T21:44:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T21:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/?p=990"},"modified":"2015-01-30T17:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T17:45:58","slug":"setting-crypto-currency-wallet-ubuntu-14-04-lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/blog\/setting-crypto-currency-wallet-ubuntu-14-04-lts\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up a crypto-currency wallet on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There might be a few reasons that you&#8217;d want to setup a bitcoin or altcoin wallet. I set one up recently for a client and found there wasn&#8217;t much info out there about compiling from source. Bitcoin has a PPA which makes it easier, but that doesn&#8217;t help us for the altcoins.<\/p>\n<p>The methods below will show you what you need to do to get a wallet up and running from a clean ubuntu install. Oh&#8230;and don&#8217;t be a cheapy! Try this on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\/?refcode=345db2bbade8\" target=\"_blank\">VPS with at least 2GB ram<\/a> (<em>full disclosure, it&#8217;s a DO referral link<\/em>), or else compiling will probably fail. Also you might run into ram issues while running the daemon if you&#8217;re using less. Remember, for bitcoin you&#8217;re going to need at least 30GB just to store the blockchain.<\/p>\n<h2>Warning<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you know this by now, but I&#8217;ll say it none the less&#8230;keep your server secure! You wallet contains valuable coins, that if compromised, you can never retrieve. Be careful!<\/p>\n<h2>Method 1 PPA (the easy way, works for bitcoin only)<\/h2>\n<p>First we update the operating system and install the necessary packages for building our wallet.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">\r\nsudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade\r\nsudo apt-get -y install libdb++-dev build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf libssl-dev libboost-all-dev python-software-properties curl vim git debconf-utils\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Let&#8217;s add the Bitcoin PPA and install:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">\r\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin\/bitcoin && sudo apt-get -y update\r\nsudo apt-get -y install bitcoind\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Now we need to create a bitcoin user. You don&#8217;t want to be running the bitcoin daemon as root. Also we&#8217;ll change to the bitcoind user.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">\r\nsudo useradd -d \/home\/bitcoind -m bitcoind -s \/bin\/bash\r\nsudo su - bitcoind\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>We make the necessary directories and setup a config file. <\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">\r\nmkdir \/home\/bitcoind\/.bitcoin\/\r\ntouch \/home\/bitcoind\/.bitcoin\/bitcoin.conf\r\necho 'rpcuser=litecoinrpc\r\nrpcpassword=CHANGE_THIS_TO_SOMETHING_VERY_SECURE\r\nserver=1' > \/home\/bitcoind\/.bitcoin\/bitcoin.conf\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>If you want to run on testnet add the following to <code>\/home\/bitcoind\/.bitcoin\/bitcoin.conf<\/code>:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">\r\ntestnet=1\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>We&#8217;re now ready to fire up bitcoind:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">\r\nbitcoind --daemon\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>And test it out:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">\r\nbitcoind getbalance\r\n0.00000000\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>NOTE: It will take quite a while for the wallet to sync with the network. Your wallet needs to download about 30GB of transactions and process them. While this is going on, your balance might not be correct. To see how far it&#8217;s come along run the following command and <a href=\"https:\/\/blockexplorer.com\/q\/getblockcount\" target=\"_blank\">compare with the current block count<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">\r\nbitcoind getblockcount\r\n339255\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2>Method 2 (works for all altcoins)<\/h2>\n<p>This method will basically allow you to install any altcoin on your server. We&#8217;re going to compile from source. In the below method we&#8217;re going to setup Litecoin, but it could easily be any other coin. You just need to change the username, git repo url, <\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh linenumbers\">\r\nsudo useradd -d \/home\/litecoind -m litecoind -s \/bin\/bash\r\nsudo su - litecoind\r\ngit clone git:\/\/github.com\/litecoin-project\/litecoin.git\r\ncd litecoin\/src\r\nmake -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP= litecoind\r\nmv litecoind \/usr\/bin\/litecoind\r\nmkdir \/home\/litecoind\/.litecoin\/\r\ntouch \/home\/litecoind\/.litecoin\/litecoin.conf\r\necho 'rpcuser=litecoinrpc\r\nrpcpassword=CHANGE_THIS_TO_SOMETHING_VERY_SECURE\r\nserver=1\r\ntestnet=1' > \/home\/litecoind\/.litecoin\/litecoin.conf\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Fire it up!<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">\r\nlitecoind --daemon\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2>Automatically start daemon on startup<\/h2>\n<p>If you want the daemon to start automatically do the following as root (or use sudo if you&#8217;re user has the ability):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">\r\necho 'su bitcoind -c \"\/usr\/bin\/bitcoind -daemon\"' >> \/etc\/rc.local\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Rinse and repeat for your other altcoins.<\/p>\n<h2>Some basic security<\/h2>\n<p>I don&#8217;t claim to be a Linux server security guru. These are just some best practices to help you not get hacked.<\/p>\n<h3>Change SSH port<\/h3>\n<p>It can be a good idea to chage the default ssh port. This is a bit inconvenient since you&#8217;ll need to specify it each time, but it helps prevent bots trying to brute force port 22. <\/p>\n<p>Open <code>etc\/ssh\/sshd_config<\/code> in your favorite editor and change the following line:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">\r\nPort 3736 #Change this to some random unused port\r\n<\/pre>\n<h3>Disable password login<\/h3>\n<p>IMPORTANT: Make sure you&#8217;ve correctly added your public key to your <code>~\/.ssh\/authorized_keys<\/code> file. Test it out before disabling password logins.<\/p>\n<p>Again, edit <code>etc\/ssh\/sshd_config<\/code> and make these changes to disable password logins:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">\r\nPasswordAuthentication No\r\nChallengeResponseAuthentication no\r\nUsePAM no\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Restart sshd:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">\r\n\/etc\/init.d\/sshd restart\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There might be a few reasons that you&#8217;d want to setup a bitcoin or altcoin wallet. I set one up recently for a client and found there wasn&#8217;t much info out there about compiling from source. Bitcoin has a PPA which makes it easier, but that doesn&#8217;t help us for the altcoins. 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