Intended for the Hive API node operators, witnesses, and developers.

At the time of Eclipse release I made a similar post that saved many (hours) of lives, so I’m creating an updated one for the upcoming Hard Fork 25.

^{Yes, new Hive Hard Fork, new fancy logo reveal.}

Code

GitLab

https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive
Our core development efforts takes place in a community hosted GitLab repository (thanks @blocktrades). There's Hive core itself, but also many other Hive related software repositories.

GitHub

https://github.com/openhive-network/hive
We use it as a push mirror for GitLab repository, mostly for visibility and decentralization - if you have an account on GitHub please fork at least hive and hivemind and star them if you haven’t done so yet. We haven't paid much attention to it but apparently it's important for some outside metrics.

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Services

API node

https://api.openhive.network
Soon to be switched to v1.25.0 but because it’s heavily used in Hive related R&D it might not be your best choice if you are looking for a fast API node without any rate limiting. During the maintenance mode, it will fall back to https://api.hive.blog

Seed node

hived v1.25.0 listens on gtg.openhive.network:2001
to use it in your config.ini file just add the line:

p2p-seed-node = gtg.openhive.network:2001

If you don't have any p2p-seed-node = entries in your config file, built-in defaults will be used (which contains my node too).

Stuff for download

TL;DR https://gtg.openhive.network/get

Binaries

./get/bincontains hived and cli_wallet binaries built on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS which should also run fine on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Blocks

./get/blockchain
As usual, the block_log file, roughly 350GB and counting.
For testing needs there's also block_log.5M that is limited to first 5 million blocks.

Snapshots

API

./get/snapshot/api/ contains a relatively recent snapshot of the API node with all the fancy plugins.
There’s a snapshot for the upcoming version v1.25.0 but also for the old one v1.24.8 if you need to switch back.
Uncompressed snapshot takes roughly 480GB
There’s also the example-api-config.ini file out there that contains settings compatible with the snapshot.

To decompress, you can use simply run it through something like: lbzip2 -dc | tar xv
(Using parallel bzip2 on multi-threaded systems might save you a lot of time)

To use snapshot you need:

• A block_log file, not smaller than the one used when the snapshot was made.
• A config.ini file, compatible with the snapshot (see above), adjusted to your needs, without changes that could affect it in a way that changes the state.
• A hived binary compatible with the snapshot

All of that you can find above.

Run hived with --load-snapshot name, assuming the snapshot is stored in snapshot/name

hived API node runtime currently takes 823GB (incl. shm 19GB, excl. snapshot)

Exchanges

There’s also a snapshot meant for exchanges in ./get/snapshot/exchange/ that allows them to quickly get up and running, it requires a compatible configuration and that exchange account is one of those who are tracked by my node. If you run an exchange and want to be on that list to use a snapshot, just please let me know.

Hivemind database dump

./get/hivemind/ contains a relatively recent dump of the Hivemind database.
I use self-describing file names such as:
hivemind-20210616-47a41c96.dump
Date when dump was taken, revision of hivemind that was running it.
You need at least that version, remember about intarray extension
Consider running pg_restore with at least -j 6 to run long running tasks in parallel
After restoring the database, make sure to run the db_upgrade script.

Even though during full sync database size peaks easily over 750GB, when restored from dump it takes roughly 500GB. Dump file itself is just 53GB.

All resources are offered AS IS.