To stabilize the GRIN-Network, we need to ensure we have enough running Grin-Nodes on the Mainnet-Network. We are believing in GRIN and the future of GRIN, therefore we setting up this challenge.
Who can participate?
Everyone with a non-commercial Grin-Node.
All commercial nodes are allowed to connect as well but they wont win any prices.
How can you participate?
It is simple, just run a Grin-Node over the measured time period from 22.03.2020 12:00:00 noon (UTC+0) to 22.04.2020 12:00:00 noon (UTC+0) and connect your Grin-Node to Grinnode.live
To stabilize the GRIN-Network, we need to ensure we have enough running Grin-Nodes on the Mainnet-Network.
While it’s important for everyone receiving Grin to run a full node, running a full node just for the sake of it only adds value if the nodes are accepting incoming connections. To ensure this happens, everyone should setup port forwarding on port 3414, and confirm that grin-server.toml is configured to accept incoming connections.
Actually, my node isn’t being counted, and that IP doesn’t appear under “Peers and Sync” in the menu.
Here’s my .toml:
peers_preferred = ["213.239.215.236:3414"]
#maximum number of inbound peer connections
peer_max_inbound_count = 30
#maximum number of outbound peer connections
peer_max_outbound_count = 10
#preferred minimum number of outbound peers
peer_min_preferred_outbound_count = 10
#temporarily allowed to exceed peer_max_inbound_count
peer_listener_buffer_count = 5
I can ping that IP and can telnet into 3414 from my node. When I switch to “List” seeding, and explicitly set that IP, I have 0 connections at first, and then eventually pick up a connection which doesn’t match that IP. Otherwise, I quickly get 10 outbound connections that don’t match that IP.
I asume winners are selected at random or based on random chance corrected for the up time, right. Otherwise joining the list or setting up a new node right now would automatically not win… and I want T-Shirt
You are correct, joining now will not bring you in Top20.
But, let’s do the following and adjust the current rules a bit:
If more than 20 Users reply here telling us, we have successfully setup a Grin-Node and connected to Grinnode.live, we will add 10 more T-Shirts to the winning pool.
Winners will be randomly chosen from all connected nodes during the 4 week Challenge
Top20 Nodes can not win any additional T-Shirts
only non-commercial Grin-Nodes can win any prices.
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I just realized I cannot setup additional nodes due to the need for port forwarding for port 3414 . Since I forward the ports used by Grin to one computer cannot redirect to another, right? I was even thinking of going for three nodes by adding a node running on a Raspberry Pi. Any thoughts on how to circumvent this limitation?
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. Since I forward the ports used by Grin to one computer cannot redirect to another, right? I was even thinking of going for three nodes by adding a node running on a Raspberry Pi. Any thoughts on how to circumvent this limitation?
