Garbageman at Scale: Introducing Nodes Manager on Start9

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I published another Bitcoin-related tutorial .

In this video, I demonstrate a number of updates made to the Garbageman Nodes Manager since my last video, and how to install and use the tool on the Start9 operating system.

Unfortunately, for the last couple of videos, Youtube has been doing some shoddy post-processing that overlays the wrong section of the video over the audio for a few seconds randomly throughout the video before glitching back to normal (most annoyingly, this happened at the very beginning of my last two videos…) These glitches are not in the original that I uploaded. If anyone has some ideas for how to avoid this happening upon upload to Youtube, let me know.

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I noticed a Hotfix Release : v0.1.1.0 - Hotfix: Instance Startup Failures on Github (I have had a failed instance when running v0.0.0.1)

I cant verify( PGP Verification) of the download for the hotfix files. Do I need to? Up grade = uninstall -reinstall?

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Yes, the very first version had a bug where after I removed the pre-release assets that I used for testing, it would show some message like “failed ot start instance” when you click on the start button (basically I had a folder name hard-coded and overlooked it). You will need to delete the affected instance and upgrade to the hotfix version, and then create a new instance. You could also just uninstall the service and re-install (you’ll just need to import the artifact again if you do that).

The hotfix should be properly signed, let me check if there is a problem with it.

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Oh, dang. I must have uploaded the wrong signature or checksum. Thanks for catching that!

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Ok, new signature file is up. I think I must have copied the one from the previous version by mistake.

Must be my dyslexia. 0.1.0.1 looks awefully similar to 0.1.1.0…

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All is working fine with hotfix. :+1: Thanks

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At least that was a good test to see if anyone was paying attention :sweat_smile:

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Thank you for all of the work you’re doing Paul!

I initially tried to get virtual box running but ran into partition issues.

I was able to watch this video and get it working within about an hour. My mini pc can run 4 or 5 instances without crashing. I’m also running a full Knots node and mining to Ocean with it.

I was able to do it all via an iPhone. The ui is a little buggy but usable.

I’ve discovered 6 LR/GM so far. All clearnet.

I’m looking forward to being able to preferential peer with v30.

Are you planning to implement a way to share our peer discovery findings?

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That’s an interesting concept. I’ll have to think on how that would be implemented in a trustless way, though. If it were just simply sharing peer discoveries among the network of Corehort runners, then that would open up an attack vector for bad actors who could flood the network with fake addresses and degrade its usefulness.

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