2. Activate your QLC Chain account

Stake at least 1 QLC to activate your account

Please refer to the guide for QLC Chain wallet creation and QLC staking steps, before proceeding to running nodes, make sure you got an active QLC Chain account prepared with the account eligible for running a voting or mining node on the QLC Chain.

To run a mining node

Stake at least 100K QLC to gain the eligibility of running a mining node

To run a voting node

Possess at least 0.5% of the total voting power of the whole network which calculates to 3,000,000 QLC equivalent voting power

Understand more about the requirements of running QLC Chain-based nodes and the expected QGas return from https://medium.com/qlc-chain/qgas-distribution-mechanism-on-the-qlc-chain-26d8aa3a29a

Each account can select its voting account at any time, you can also select your own account to be the voting account.

Check if your account is in the REP list.

To receive QGas incentives from running a voting node, your have to possess no less than 3M QLC equivalent voting Power.

3. Run a QLC Chain node

To mine QGas from the QLC Chain, you need to run the gqlc and mining program on a mining hardware that has an Internet connection.

This tutorial show how to deploy script for mining and voting nodes with Mac OS, Windows OS, and Linux OS.

3.1 Download the file for deploying the QLC Chain node from

All-in-one package for newbies, download the file named 20191230 from

https://mega.nz/#F!tJ4HlK4T

Access code: TPB5fZmcutUXuYH4nBFP0Q

For veterans:

https://github.com/qlcchain/go-qlc/releases/tag/v1.3.3

gqlc-miner:

https://github.com/qlcchain/qlc-miner/releases

gqlc-pool: