How to build your own altcoin cryptocurrency mining pool

This lesson covers course expectations and what you should be able to achieve after the completion of the course.  It covers what experience you should already have, and what the costs are likely to be to build your own mining pool.

This lesson covers the basics of bitcoin and altcoins, the difference between daemons and wallets, and some general information on blockchains.

This lesson covers some basics on how mining pools work, algorithms, hashrates, the TTF, how the workload is spread over mining participants, and more.

This lesson covers some of the benefits of a mining pool and being a mining pool owner/operator.

This lesson gets into some detail about the Yiimp mining pool software and the stratum process.

An overview of what you will need to successfully build and run a mining pool and a development server that you can compile coin daemons on.

This lesson covers the requirements of building a development coin daemon compilation server.

This lesson contains a demo of how to build the development server using Virtual Box.

A demo of installing the required development server dependencies to allow the successful compilation of coin daemons and command-line wallets.

This lesson details the requirements for building the production mining pool server.

A step-by-step demo of how to build the main production mining pool server, using a Vultr virtual private server.

A quick demo on how to create a swap partition on your production server to allow RAM to be swapped to disk when it is running low.

A quick overview of the components that will be installed as part of the Yiimp mining pool software installation.

A step-by-step demo of how to install the Yiimp mining pool software.

This demo takes a quick look at the Yiimp main web page.

This a quick demo taking a look at the Yiimp administration control panel.

A step-by-step guide on how to create the required Yiimp scripts.

An overview of the stratum & blocknotify processes.

A demo on how to configure some of the main settings of Yiimp through the serverconfig.php file.

Details on how to create a stratum startup script which is used to start your stratums up automatically on server reboot.

A demo on how to clean up the default Yiimp SQL database, clearing out the long list of coins that are "installed" by default.

An optional lesson on how to tidy up the default firewall settings, as configured during the Yiimp installation.

A demo on how to customise the text on the main Yiimp website front page.

A demo on how to customise the colour scheme of your Yiimp mining pool website.

Some theory on the blockchain related files that are used on the mining pool server.

A demo on how to compile a coin daemon from source on your development server, using the autogen.sh method.

A demo on how to add the newly compiled coin daemon to the production server/mining pool and how to configure it ready to be mined to.

Details of how to test your newly added coin daemon to confirm that it works and that your firewall is configured correctly.

Details on how to create a daemon startup script so that all your coin daemons start up automatically on a server reboot.

A demo on how to compile a coin daemon from source on your development server, using the makefile.unix method.

This demo will show you how to add new coin network node details to your mining pool so that your server can synchronise with more servers on the same coin network.

A demo on how to resynchronise the blockchain, should the blockchain have issues (for example, forks).

This lesson covers what to do when a Proof-of-Work (PoW) coin changes its consensus algorithm to Proof-of-Stake (PoS).

This theory lesson covers how payments work with your Yiimp mining pool.

This theory lesson will take you through some common problems and how to troubleshoot and potentially fix them.

Scams are everywhere. This lesson will highlight some of the things to watch out for when thinking about adding a new coin to your mining pool to reduce the likelihood of you or your miners being subject to a scam or coin failure. Note, this is personal opinion.

This lesson covers information on how and what to monitor on your server to try and ensure that it stays stable and available at all times.

Disasters do happen unfortunately.  This lesson covers details of some of the things that you should think about backing up so that the pain of recovery is reduced.