Did you know that you can claim free Hive account tickets if you have unused Resource Credits (RC)?
You will then have Claimed Account Tickets that you can use later to create Hive accounts for free!
Although there are some user interfaces that allow you to perform this operation manually, it's quite tedious to daily check your RC, to claim a new account and then repeat this process if you still have enough RC available. Add to that the fact that, more often than wanted, one can forget to do it for several days. You will find yourself with your RC fully reloaded at 100% and somehow wasted when they could have been used in a smarter way.
Enter the automation
To make your life cooler, I have created an app that will automate this process.
The app is open source and you can download the code from github
How to use?
- Clone the repository locally
- Make sure you have the latest LTS or greater version of Node JS installed
- Go inside the cloned folder and type
npm install - Rename
.env.exampleto.envand add your Steem username and active WIF - To start the app, type
npm start
By default, the RC threshold is set to 30 billion. Actually, the account claim cost is around 11 billion RC. If your RC quota raises over the threshold, the app will claim for a new account. You can easily change the RC threshold in the .env configuration file.
To run the app continuously in the background, you can use PM2.
- Generate
ecosystem.config.jsfile withpm2 initcommand and add the environment variables in the file. - When you are done, start the app with the following command:
pm2 start ecosystem.config.js --env production
Feel free to fork the repository and submit your changes.
Thanks for reading!