COTX FlexiMining© User Manual 2 -(ScPrime, PreSearch, Meson Network)

Created by Eason Chen, Modified on Thu, 08 Dec 2022 at 03:52 AM by Eason Chen

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FlexiMining - ScPrime


Please read through COTX FlexiMining Terms of Service and agree on the terms before taking any action.


About ScPrime

https://scpri.me/

THE DISTRIBUTED DATACENTER

Enterprise-grade, cloud storage for backups and disaster recovery running on a global sharing-economy

ScPrime Documentation

Please be noted that there are ScPrime collateral license fees that need to pay ScPrime, so please read through ScPrime documents carefully.

Prerequisites for running ScPrime in your COTX Hotspot

  1.  Your COTX X3 version upgraded to the latest version
  2.  Stable broadband, unlimited capacity and time;  
  3.  Hotspot owner should keep your X3 hotspot online;
  4.  Agree on the COTX FlexiMining Terms of Service.
  5.  Follow ScPrime instruction and meet all ScPrime Requirements.
  6.  The customer takes full responsibility for using and provide ScPrime service in your country/region.
  7. Have a public IP,Turn on port 4282 and 4283 for port forwarding.
  8. Based on ScPrime's requirement, you need to pay 60 SCP. and buy alicense Basic$99 OR FULL$450. 
  9.  Make sure that the USB interface of the hotspot is connected to the SSD and the available hard disk capacity is > = 550G. It is recommended to buy at least 1T hard disk. Check ScPrime Documentation to confirm hard disk size you need.
  10. Set the disk format to EXT4
  11. Hard disk requirements:

 - 2.5" and 3.5" hard disk; 3.5" hard disk need its own external power source;

 - 2.5'' mechanical disk, SSD, NVME SSD, or MSATA; 

 - Highly suggest the customer get a high speed USB Hub with its own power source; or use SATA-USB adaptor which has its own power source:

Demo Video - Prepare external hard drive for the Fleximining


Enable FlexiMining ScPrime

For the production environment, Login to your COTX IOT Cloud:  COTX Hotspot Cloud Service

For beta testing, please login test environment: test.cotx-sg.io

These two environments use the same login credentials.


Enter your walletspace, click the arrow into your Hotspot dashboard; or click the "Hotspot" menu in the left menu directly enter your Hotspot dashboard; 

In the Hotspot Tab, click the shopping cart icon right next the ScPrime:



Check your order. This is a recurring order, you will be charged every 3 months, and FlexiMining service fee is nonrefundable.

Finish your payment -> Finish your payment and subscription of the FlexiMining service fee for ScPrime:


Finish payment, wait for several mins, and go back to COTX Hotspot Cloud Service. In the Hotspot dashboard, click ScPrime start to install ScPrime into your COTX Hotspot: 


Agree on terms, start the installation:

Please click Create Wallet Seed:


It may take some time to finish this Creating Wallet Seed step. We're creating the necessary software for you, so please wait patiently:


Once the Creating wallet seed is finished, click NEXT to check the 29 words wallet seeds. You MUST store your 29 words wallet seeds safely and carefully. Once you lose them, you WON'T be able to access your wallet, and NO ONE can help you recover it. COTX does NOT store this wallet seeds, only you can see and store these wallet seeds. 



Copy your 29 words wallet seeds, then click NEXT, in next page, paste your wallet seeds:


Secret Recovery Phrase: 29 words wallet seeds

Disk Size: the disk capacity which you wish to share to ScPrime, it must be larger than 550GB; please check ScPrime document. The more capacity you share, the more reward you will get.

ScPrime Port1:default 4282;

ScPrime Port2:default 4283;


Set a fixed IP for the X3 device. Then turn on port 4282 and 4283 for port forwarding.

You MUST open ScPrime Port 1, 2 for your hotspot's local IP address on your WIFI router, so ScPrime can communicate with the public network correctly:


If you have multiple hotspots installed ScPrime, each ScPrime instance's ScPrime Port 1, and 2 must be different. e.g.

hotspot 192.168.1.113 used ScPrime Port 1, 2 as 4282, 4283; then,

hotspot 192.168.1.114, should useScPrime Port 1, 2 as like 4284, 4285.

You must ensure the public network can connect to the hotspot by these opened ports correctly.

Reference:  ScPrime Port Forward


Click "INSTALL" once you input all information correctly, then we install ScPrime app on your hotspot. When the installation finish, the ScPrime status is "notPledged" on the ScPrime status page. 


Now you can see your Pledge Wallet Address in the status screen. Please follow the ScPrime Collateral requirements to buy $SCP coin then pay ScPrime Collateral. Currently the best exchanges to purchase SCP are TradeOgre & SouthXchange. 

For example TradeOgre

Signup, login TradeOgre https://tradeogre.com/exchange/BTC-SCP  , goes to Markets:

In Markets, search "scp", find and click "BTC-SCP"


Now you can BUY SCP coin by BTC. Please ensure you have enough BTC in your BTC wallet inside of the TradeOgre.

Based on ScPrime's requirement, you need to pay 60 SCP. 

When you have enough SCP in your balance, you can now pay 60 SCP to the Pledge Wallet Address, which is displayed in the COTX Hotspot Cloud Service, ScPrime status page


Once you paid SCP Collateral, it usually takes 35-45 mins to finish the transaction. Then on the ScPrime status page you can see the status of your ScPrime becomes "running", and your ScPrime Announced Address.  

Now all installation and setup are done. Please keep your hotspot and hard drives always powered on and online.


BUY license  Basic$99 OR FULL$450

For detailed information please refer to https://docs.scpri.me/diy-getting-started/licensing-faq

A licence must be purchased.otherwise you will not receive an EARNING.

How do I buy a license?

    In the XA-Miner online store.Shop - Xa-Miner (xaminer.net)

What is the difference between Basic and Full?

    The Basic license will give you auto-pricing and auto re-announce features as well as qualify you for incentives from SCP Corp going forwards after 1st July and protect you from having any illegal data stored on your provider. However the provider will still be managed via the CLI as it is currently. The Full license gives you the full GUI similar to the XA Miner’s GUI plus in future the ability to do KYC which may well be required by certain customer segments, qualifying Full license holders to be able to store this data which Basic license holders won’t be able to. Take a look at the Xa-Miner UI Walkthrough here to see part of the Full License benefits.


Now that I’ve received my license, how do I apply it?

    1.Visit https://console.xapro.net/

    2.Create an account if you haven't already. Make sure your account email matches the billing email of your license purchase on the Xa-Miner website.

    3.Once signed in, navigate to the Licenses page listed on the left of the Console

    4.The system will find your license if you correctly entered the email you used to purchase.

    5.Begin entering your Provider ID. It requires 3 characters for auto suggest to find it, or you can paste the whole string.

    6.Once your enter your Provider ID, verify the details are correct and continue on



How to check your ScPrime reward?

Visit: https://grafana.scpri.me/d/SjaS9V1Gk/storage-network-status?orgId=1&refresh=1h

Click the filter icon next to the "Accounced Address", and search your ScPrime information by inputting your ScPrime Announced Address.


ScPrime Reference

ScPrime Documentation


FlexiMining - PreSearch


Please read through COTX FlexiMining Terms of Service and agree on the terms before taking any action.

Please read through PreSearch Terms of Service and agree on the terms before taking any action.


About PreSearch

https://presearch.com/

https://presearch.io/

Presearch is building a complete ecosystem to support the PRE token and provide the world with a decentralized search engine that is powered by the community, for the community.

PreSearch Knowledge Base

Prerequisites for running PreSearch in your COTX Hotspot

a. Your COTX X3 version upgraded to the latest version

b. Stable broadband, unlimited capacity and time;  

c. Hotspot owner should keep your X3 hotspot online;

d. Agree on the COTX FlexiMining Terms of Service.

e. Agree on the PreSearch Terms of Service.

f.  The customer takes full responsibility for using and provide PreSearch service in your country/region.

g. Based on PreSearch's requirement, you need to Stake  4,000 PRE tokens on a node.



Enable FlexiMining PreSearch

For the production environment, Login to your COTX IOT Cloud:  COTX Hotspot Cloud Service

For beta testing, please login test environment: test.cotx-sg.io

These two environments use the same login credentials.


Enter your walletspace, click the arrow into your Hotspot dashboard; or click the "Hotspot" menu in the left menu directly enter your Hotspot dashboard; 

In the Hotspot Tab, click the shopping cart icon right next the PreSearch:


Check your order. This is a recurring order, you will be charged every 3 months, and FlexiMining service fee is nonrefundable.

Finish your payment -> Finish your payment and subscription of the FlexiMining service fee for PreSearch:


Finish payment, wait for several mins, and go back to COTX Hotspot Cloud Service. In the Hotspot dashboard, click PreSearch start to install PreSearch into your COTX Hotspot: 


Agree on terms, start the installation.

Open PreSearch Dachboard (https://nodes.presearch.com/dashboard), sign-up:


Then copy the registration code from the PreSearch Dashboard:


Back to COTX Hotspot Cloud Servie, input the PreSearch registration code, continue installation:


When installation finished, you will see the status is running:


Now, please click "EXPORT" to export the PreSearch node information, and store it safely.


Import PreSearch node information to restore PreSearch stake information
When your hotspot's microSD card fails, you will lose your PreSearch Stake information. So if you swap a new microSD card, you can log in to the COTX Hotspot Cloud Service, enter PreSearch status page, and click "upload Presearch node data" to import the PreSearch node information which you've stored. So you don't need to re-stake for your PreSearch node.


Once your PreSearch node installation is done, you need to log in PreSearch Dashboard  (https://nodes.presearch.com/dashboard) to check the node you installed on your hotspot. Now you need to click "Stake" to finish the Stake process to start your PreSearch node's service:(Stake  4,000 PRE tokens on the node https://nodes.presearch.com/rewards)


How to check your PreSearch rewards?

Log in PreSearch Dashboard, in the Current Nodes section, column "PRE Earned".


PreSearch Reference

PreSearch Knowledge Base


FlexiMining - Meson Network (beta)


Please read through COTX FlexiMining Terms of Service and agree on the terms before taking any action.

Please read through Meson Network Requirements and agree on the terms before taking any action.


About Meson Network

https://meson.network/

Meson Network is a bandwidth trading platform built on blockchain. It gathers the idle bandwidth (and space) from the distributed servers worldwide, offering the servers’ suppliers the tokens as rewards, and helping speed up the streaming media.

Meson network documents

Prerequisites for running Meson Network in your COTX Hotspot

  1. Your COTX X3 version upgraded to the latest version
  2. Stable broadband, unlimited capacity and time;  
  3. Hotspot owner should keep your X3 hotspot online;
  4. Agree on the COTX FlexiMining Terms of Service.
  5. Agree on the Meson Network Requirements .
  6. The customer takes full responsibility for using and provide Meson Network service in your country/region.
  7. Have a fixed public IP,Turn on port 1443 for port forwarding.
  8.  Make sure that the USB interface of the hotspot is connected to the SSD and the available hard disk capacity is > = 100G. 
  9. Set the disk format to EXT4
  10. Hard disk requirements:

 - 2.5" and 3.5" hard disk; 3.5" hard disk need its own external power source;

 - 2.5'' mechanical disk, SSD, NVME SSD, or MSATA; 

- Highly suggest the customer get a high speed USB Hub with its own power source; or use SATA-USB adaptor which has its own power source:

Demo Video - Prepare external hard drive for the Fleximining


Enable FlexiMining Meson


FlexiMining App -  Meson Network - Installation Demo Video 


For the production environment, Login to your COTX IOT Cloud:  COTX Hotspot Cloud Service

For beta testing, please login test environment: test.cotx-sg.io

These two environments use the same login credentials.


Set a fixed IP for the X3 device. Then turn on port 1443 for port forwarding.

Enter your walletspace, click the arrow into your Hotspot dashboard; or click the "Hotspot" menu in the left menu directly enter your Hotspot dashboard; 

In the Hotspot Tab, click the shopping cart icon right next the MESON NETWORK:


Check your order. This is a recurring order, you will be charged every 3 months, and FlexiMining service fee is nonrefundable.

Finish your payment -> Finish your payment and subscription of the FlexiMining service fee for Meson Network:


Finish payment, wait for several mins, and go back to COTX Hotspot Cloud Service. In the Hotspot dashboard, click MESONNETWORK start to install it into your COTX Hotspot: 


Agree on terms, start the installation.

Click "MESONNETWORK", redirect to MESON official website to sign up:


Open Meson Network Dachboard (https://dashboard.meson.network/register#/), sign-up:


Sign up, click "Nodes", check and copy the "Token":


Back to the COTX Hotspot Cloud Service, Meson Network installation page, input Meson Token you got, and set the Disk Size (100G of space to maximise ear), then click "INSTALL"


When installation finished, you can see the Meson Network running status:


You can also login Meson Network official website, click "Nodes", to check you node running status:


How to check your Meson Network rewards?

Log in Meson Dashboard, in the Daily Reward section, check your reward.

Meson network Reference

Meson network documents


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