Share Channel Data with your peers in the Ring of Fire

Setup

Dependencies

sudo apt-get install jq

Configurations

Copy ringOfFireConfig.dist.json and name it ringOfFireConfig.json

Replace placeholders with real values

{
  "auth": {
    "user": "USERNAME",
    "password": "PASSWORD"
  },
  "implementation": "lnd|c-lightning",
  "url": "URL_TO_SERVER",
  "peers": [
    "ADDRESS_OF_RINGMEMBER_1",
    "ADDRESS_OF_RINGMEMBER_2",
    "ADDRESS_OF_RINGMEMBER_3",
    "ADDRESS_OF_RINGMEMBER_4"
    "..."
  ]
}

USERNAME: your username you received from the coordinator
PASSWORD: your password you received from the coordinator
URL_TO_SERVER: url of the server used for data sharing
IMPLEMENTATION: your lightning implementation (lnd or c-lightning)
ADDRESS_OF_RINGMEMBER_X: Address (nodeid@address:port) to all your peers of the ring in order

Execution

Make sure you have access to lncli or lightning-cli

Execute the command as follows

./sendRingStats.sh

Run script as a service

Create and write following service file:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/ring-of-fire-sharing.service

[Unit]
Description=Send your node status periodically to the ring server

[Service]
ExecStart=/path/to/ring-of-fire-sharing/sendRingStats.sh
Restart=on-failure
User=[USER]

# Hardening measures
####################
# Provide a private /tmp and /var/tmp.
PrivateTmp=true
# Mount /usr, /boot/ and /etc read-only for the process.
ProtectSystem=full
# Disallow the process and all of its children to gain
# new privileges through execve().
NoNewPrivileges=true
# Use a new /dev namespace only populated with API pseudo devices
# such as /dev/null, /dev/zero and /dev/random.
PrivateDevices=true
# Deny the creation of writable and executable memory mappings.
MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Note [USER] needs to be replaced with the user in your system that can run lncli/lightning-cli. Note /path/to/ needs to be replaced with the location where your sharing script is lying

Start and enable the newly created service

sudo systemctl start ring-of-fire-sharing.service sudo systemctl enable ring-of-fire-sharing.service

The script will now keep running 24/7 and automatically start when your node reboots

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