Requirements
Ignition QT-wallet running on your local computer. You must have at least 3000 Ignition Coins for every master node you plan to setup.
A static IP address on the machine you are running the Master Nodes from.
STEP 1 : Preparing masternodes
1 – First choose a folder that you will use for setup anywhere on your PC.
2 – Create a folder called masternode1 there (or whatever you would like to name it to remember which one of your masternodes this is, you will create one for each)
3 – Copy file “ignition-qt.exe” to your new folder, and create a folder in that directory called “data”
4 – Copy file “blk0001.dat” and folder “txleveldb” in created folder “data” - You can get this from your %appdata%/Ignition/data folder.
5 – Rename “ignition-qt.exe” to the “icmasternode1.exe”
6 – Press Win+R and type “cmd” and press Enter
7 – Now type the following:
echo start icmasternode1.exe -datadir=./data > %homepath%/Desktop/startmn1.cmd
8 – That command will create a file called startmn1.cmd on your desktop. Move the file “startmn1.cmd” from Desktop to the masternode1 folder
9 – Repeat the process from step 2 for each masternode you want to created, changing the final number correspondingly. I.E. masternode1, masternode2, etc
10 – Run startmn1.cmd, startmn2.cmd and so on until you run all of them. This will launch a separate instance of the qt-wallet for each one. Wait for complete loading of the wallet and complete syncing with blockchain
11 – Now you can close all wallets that were opened.
STEP 2 : Preparing controller wallet
1 – Open your main wallet where you have your coins – to open this, just launch the ignition-qt.exe like normal.
2 – Go to the receive tab
3 – Press button “New address” and enter “Masternode 1” in Label (do not check “Stealth address”)
4 – Press button “New address” and enter “Masternode 2” in Label (do not check “Stealth address”)
5 – Press button “New address” and enter “Masternode 3” in Label (do not check “Stealth address”)
4 – Send all required IC for all combined masternodes, exactly 3000IC per master node, in one transaction. This can be done by going to Send button and clicking on add recipient as many times as masternodes, and fill in all the address information to pay to and 3000 as the amount.
5 – Wait for 1 confirmation of transaction and go to the Debug console
6 – Run command “masternode genkey” and write down generated key (this is your masternode private key), you will re-run this command as many times as you have masternodes. So if you have 5, type the command 5 times, with the first being connected to MasterNode1, and so on.
Write this information down so that you can keep track.
7 – Run command “masternode outputs” and write down what appears (this is your masternode tx) and digit after “:” (this is tx index)
You will get 3 output like
{ “60835a7d867d335434925c32f38902268e131e99a5821557d3e77f8ca3829fd8” : “0”,
“60835a7d867d335434925c32f38902268e131e99a5821557d3e77f8ca3829fd8” : “1”,
“60835a7d867d335434925c32f38902268e131e99a5821557d3e77f8ca3829fd8” : “2” }
8 – Go to Masternodes tab and switch to the “My Masternodes”
9 – Press button “Create”
10 – Enter “Alias” – “MN1” (do not use spaces and special charatcers)
11 – Enter “Address” – “YOUREXTERNALIP:PORT” (your external white ip and port for masternode)
Here you will select an arbitrary unused PORT # for each masternode. For this example, we will choose 4400, 4401, 4402, and so on for each masternode’s port.
12 – Enter “Privkey” – masternode private key you generated with “masternode genkey”
13 – Enter “TxHash” – masternode tx from “masternode outputs” command
14 – Enter “Output Index” – tx index from “masternode outputs” command
15 – Now you can press “Ok”
16 – Repeat process from step 6 for MN2 and MN3. Just replace the 1 in MN1 to 2, and onward for each, and changing port as stated above. When you get to step 7 “masternode outputs” in second time you will see 2 lines with txhash and index. You must choose the First line with txhash for MN1 second for MN2 third for MN3.
17 – Press “Update” and you will see all three masternodes in list with status “Not in the masternode list. “Steps 8-15 creates masternode.conf. You can skip this steps and create it by yourself. It have format:
ALIAS IP:PORT PRIVKEY TXHASH OUTPUTINDEX One line – one masternode config
18 – Go to your %appdata% folder, and find the Ignition folder. Inside, open Ignition.conf with notepad, and add the following:
masternode=1
rpcuser=
rpcpassword=
STEP 3 : Configuring masternodes
1 – Go to “masternode1/data” folder
2 – Open “Ignition.conf” in Notepad
3 – Type there:
port=PORT masternode=1 masternodeaddr=IP:PORT masternodeprivkey=PRIVKEY
4 – Replace PORT with port for your Masternode 1, IP:PORT with your external white ip and the same port for you Masternode 1
5 – Replace PRIVKEY with masternode private key you generated with “masternode genkey” in controller wallet for Masternode 1
6 – Save it and repeat process for Masternode 2 and Masternode 3.
STEP 4 : Starting masternodes
1 – Now you can restart all your masternodes by executing the file “startmn1.cmd”, “startmn2.cmd” and “startmn3.cmd”, then, restart your controller wallet.
2 – Go to controller wallet, check that your coins in Masternode 1, 2 and 3 addresses have at least 15 confirmations.
3 – Go to Masternodes tab and switch to the “My Masternodes”
4 –Press “Update”, then when the list appears of your master nodes you set up, press “Start All”
That should complete your masternode setup. Give it ~30 minutes, and you should start to see your IP address appear in the masternodes list.
