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Running an Agoric Valditor Node on Amazon Linux

Updated as of 3/25/21

This closely follows the Original Setup Guide but contains some divergences that were required for the unique Amazon Linux distro.

Prereqs

This guide assumes the following prereqs:

• Create an AWS EC2 t3.medium in a subnet that contains an internet gateway so that it has public internet access. More detailed instructions here.
• Assign a security group to the instance that exposes port 22 for adminstrative ssh access and port 26656 to run the agoric node.
• SSH into your new machine to get started

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Compounding gains are a marvelous thing. Here is a simple script to claim and reinvest your BLD stake.

On your validator machine:

touch ~/reinvest.sh
chmod +x ~/reinvest.sh
vi ~/reinvest.sh

And add the following: