[GUIDE] Okay, I am mining Steem. How do I set up CLI Wallet?

in #mining • 8 years ago (edited)

After helping people set up mining in the Slack channel #mining, I noticed there wasn't a super simple guide on:

How to set up CLI Wallet (to control your main account)

Step 1.

Ensure that in your config, you have specified the RPC endpoint:

rpc-endpoint = 127.0.0.1:8090 

If this doesn't work, you may need to launch via "steemd --rpc-endpoint"

Step 2.

Launch cli_wallet. The first thing you need to do is set a password, you do this by typing:

set_password PASSWORD

Replace PASSWORD with any (regular character) password you like; make it strong and keep it safe! Don't worry if it spits out null. The next thing it should say is "locked".

Step 3.

Unlock you wallet with the command:

unlock PASSWORD

using the password you set in step 2.

Step 4.

You now need to find your private owner and active keys from your steemit.com account. Check out 

https://steemit.com/@YOU/permissions

Replace YOU with your username! Now find your private owner and active keys. Remember, keep these safe, tell them to no one.

Now, in cli_wallet, that is unlocked, you can import them one at a time as follows:

import_key OWNERKEY

import_key ACTIVEKEY

Replacing each key with the one you found on the permissions page.

Step 5. 

That's it, you are done. Now you can type "help" to see the cool commands you can do! But they are not the focus of this simple guide.

Some things you can now do is 

list_my_accounts

to see your balance (and confirm its working!), and you can also 

vote_for_witness YOU THEM true true

Replacing YOU with your account name, and THEM with theirs. Remember, vote for people you believe in! Check out https://steemd.com/witnesses and click the persons URL to find out more about them.

Step 6.

What, step 6?
Oh right.

You closed CLI wallet, and started it up again. Now what?

Simply go back and do Step 3 to unlock, and you are good to go!


That's it!
Hope this helps!

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     8 years ago 

    You are the machine! :D Thank you man! :D

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     8 years ago 

    Excellent! Thanks for the help!

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     8 years ago 

    When I start the wallet I get this error
    Do you know what's up with that?

    Logging RPC to file: logs\rpc\rpc.log
Starting a new wallet
853208ms th_a       main.cpp:154                  main                 ] wdata.ws_server: ws://localhost:8090
0 exception: unspecified
Underlying Transport Error
    {"message":"Underlying Transport Error"}
    asio  websocket.cpp:444 fc::http::detail::websocket_client_impl::{ctor}::<lambda_07ad...>::operator ()

    {"uri":"ws://localhost:8090"}
    th_a  websocket.cpp:673 fc::http::websocket_client::connect
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     8 years ago (edited)

    You need to be running a steemd instance with the RPC/websocket port on localhost:8090 to use it.

    (start it with steemd --rpc-endpoint=127.0.0.1:8090)

    The "Underlying Transport Error" means it can't talk to steemd - it's trying to connect to it and failing.

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       8 years ago 

      We have to have a cli wallet in order to get the mining steems?
      our steemit wallet is not enough for this? as far as i can understand it is exactly the same wallet!

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       8 years ago 

      I have the same question. I'm already mining. I just want to check how much I've mined already, can't see that in my steemit wallet. Is there a way the cli wallet shows that or is it logged somewhere? Do i need to set up the cli wallet?

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         8 years ago 

        Hi, I got this message:

        Underlying Transport Error

        C:\steem-win-x64-012>cli_wallet.exe
        Logging RPC to file: logs\rpc\rpc.log
        Starting a new wallet
        2423860ms th_a main.cpp:154 main ] wdata.ws_server: ws://loca
        lhost:8090
        0 exception: unspecified
        Underlying Transport Error
        {"message":"Underlying Transport Error"}
        asio websocket.cpp:444 fc::http::detail::websocket_client_impl::{ctor}::<lambda_07ad2457060ff51
        cd32eb8549cbb202a>::operator ()

        {"uri":"ws://localhost:8090"}
th_a  websocket.cpp:673 fc::http::websocket_client::connect

        C:\steem-win-x64-012>

        Could you tell me what to do?

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         8 years ago 

        Did you make sure that steemd is running and is fully synchronized with the blockchain? If yes, make sure Step 1 is done properly! That is an issue with the RPC layer.

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           8 years ago 

          I added to config file rpc-endpoint = 127.0.0.1:8090 when my miner was already started, after I restarted the miner the wallet starts, Thanks for fast reply and HELP :)

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             8 years ago 

            I have another question, now I set up the wallet it is showing:

            0.000 STEEM 12709.198402 VESTS 0.000 SBD

            What does it mean and mainly what can I do with? How and for what can I use VESTS? Thanks.

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               8 years ago 

              Thank you for this! Adding the key into the config file made it seem that was all I had to do.. didn't know I had to manually make a wallet as well.

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                 8 years ago 

                How create a new account only for mining?

                list_my_accounts

                This means that I can have a same accounts with overall balance?

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                   8 years ago 

                  I recommend this guide for mining stuff: https://steemit.com/steem/@picokernel/tutorial-mining-get-rich-the-old-fashioned-way

                  My post here is simply for the CLI wallet. Feel free to join the #mining channel in slack if you need help!

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                   8 years ago 

                  Step 4 problems please help

                  importing of import_key OWNERKEY and import_key ACTIVEKEY each time I keep getting following errors

                  0 exception: unspecified
                  Invalid private key

                  Anyone have idea on how to resolve this please.

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                     8 years ago 

                    i'm having the same issue

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                       8 years ago 

                      on Import_key

                      invalid key

                      Whats the problem?

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