zz0412 / btcagent

Mining Agent

BtcAgent

BtcAgent is a kind of stratum proxy which use customize protocol to communicate with the pool. It's very efficient and designed for huge mining farm. And you still can find each miner at the pool.

• With 10,000 miners:
  • Bandwith: less than 150kbps
  • Memory: less than 64MBytes
  • CPU: 1 Core

It's so efficient and we are going to build it at a ARM platform like Open-WRT. So people could use WiFi-Route as the stratum proxy, it's very cool and easy to manange.

Note:

• This is still a testbed and work in progress, all things could be changed.
• Now it's could only work with btcpool.

Install

• OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 64 Bits

apt-get update
apt-get install -y build-essential cmake git
apt-get install -y libconfig++-dev

#
# install libevent
#
mkdir -p /root/source && cd /root/source
wget https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-2.0.22-stable/libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz
tar zxvf libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.0.22-stable
./configure
make
make install

#
# install glog
#
mkdir -p /root/source && cd /root/source
wget https://github.com/google/glog/archive/v0.3.4.tar.gz
tar zxvf v0.3.4.tar.gz
cd glog-0.3.4
./configure && make && make install

#
# build agent
#
mkdir -p /work && cd /work
git clone https://github.com/btccom/btcagent.git
cd btcagent
mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make
cp ../src/agent/agent_conf.json .
mkdir -p /work/btcagent/build/log_btcagent

config json file example

{
    "agent_listen_ip": "0.0.0.0",
    "agent_listen_port": 1800,
    "pools": [
        ["cn.pool.btc.com", 443, "kevin"],
        ["cn.pool.btc.com", 443, "kevin"]
    ]
}

• agent_listen_ip: Agent's listen IP address.
• agent_listen_port: Agent's listen port, miners will connect to this port.
• pools: pools settings which Agent will connect. You can put serval pool's settings here.
  • ["<stratum_server_host>", <stratum_server_port>, "<pool_username>"]

start / stop

cd /work/btcagent/build
#
# start
#
./agent -c agent_conf.json -l log_btcagent

#
# stop: `kill` the process pid or use `Control+C`
#
kill `pgrep 'agent'`

recommand to use supervisor to manage it

$ apt-get install -y supervisor
$ cp /work/btcagent/install/agent.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/
$ supervisorctl
supervisor> reread
agent: available
supervisor> update
agent: added process group
supervisor> exit