Reuben's Start Multiple Masternodes from One Wallet Guide (start-many)

[BolehVPN]

A new guide is available here which covers it in a lot more detail.

Will update this guide when I feel like it cause I struggled with the formatting and pictures.

https://www.bolehvpn.net/blog/2016/02/07/what-is-a-dash-masternode-and-how-do-i-set-up-one/

 

[splawik21]

great piece of work BolehVPN ! Kudos.

 

[BolehVPN]

https://dashtalk.org/threads/reubens-detailed-masternode-setup-and-maintenance-guide.7984/ is where the new guide is Please close this thread.

 

[camosoul]

I did

masternode start

instead of

masternode start-many

Yup. This. The "masternode start" for old school hot wallet nodes still exists and gives you that error. I feel this should be removed entirely because it's dangerous and we don't want some noob doing it and losing their 1000 DASH. It's the sort of thing a noob might do as a shortcut... It doesn't serve any useful production purpose anymore, and creates a potential [really] bad thing for people who don't grasp the situation.

All "remote" or "hot/cold" wallet type nodes require start-many, start-missing, start-alias [alias in masternode.conf], etc...

Still think it needs to be renamed "start-all" instead of "start-many." Using weird language doesn't help the already confused.

 

[UdjinM6]

...
Still think it needs to be renamed "start-all" instead of "start-many." Using weird language doesn't help the already confused.

it's there since v0.12.0.50 https://github.com/dashpay/dash/pull/577/commits/7fb2e38162192461dbd3040310463983d403f904

help masternode

masternode "command"... ( "passphrase" )
Set of commands to execute masternode related actions

Arguments:
1. "command" (string or set of strings, required) The command to execute
2. "passphrase" (string, optional) The wallet passphrase

Available commands:
count - Print number of all known masternodes (optional: 'ds', 'enabled', 'all', 'qualify')
current - Print info on current masternode winner
debug - Print masternode status
genkey - Generate new masternodeprivkey
enforce - Enforce masternode payments
outputs - Print masternode compatible outputs
start - Start masternode configured in dash.conf
start-alias - Start single masternode by assigned alias configured in masternode.conf
start-<mode> - Start masternodes configured in masternode.conf (<mode>: 'all', 'missing', 'disabled')
status - Print masternode status information
list - Print list of all known masternodes (see masternodelist for more info)
list-conf - Print masternode.conf in JSON format
winners - Print list of masternode winners

start-many is left for backward compatibility and is not displayed in help anymore (also since v0.12.0.50)