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How to Run A Fullnode on SIVS

Fullnodes Functions

  • Stores the full blockchain history on disk and can answer the data request from the network.
  • Receives and validates the new blocks and transactions.
  • Verifies the states of every accounts.

Supported Platforms

We support running a full node on Mac OS Xand Linux.

Suggested Requirements

Fullnode

  • VPS running recent versions of Mac OS X or Linux.
  • 4 cores of CPU and 8 gigabytes of memory (RAM).
  • A broadband Internet connection with upload/download speeds of 5 megabyte per second

Steps to Run a Full Node

Download sivs.json from https://github.com/sivscoin

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivscoin/chain/main/mainnet/sivs.json
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivscoin/chain/main/mainnet/config.toml
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivscoin/chain/main/mainnet/geth.zip

Unzip geth

unzip geth.zip

Make node folder

mkdir node

Initialize the Node 

./geth --datadir ./node init sivs.json

Run the Nodes

./geth --datadir node -snapshot=false --gcmode=archive --config config.toml --allow-insecure-unlock --cache=1024