Note: The most up-to-date official Chives wallet can be found here: Chives Wallet - there are instructions on the page but please complete the Chives installation prior to unzipping the database file in the location mentioned.
Note: If Chives is not syncing after it has been running for 5+ minutes, please use one of these official Chives nodes:
node-us.chivescoin.org:9699 (FULL NODE) United States
node-ca.chivescoin.org:9699 (FULL NODE+TIMELORD) Canada
node-kr.chivescoin.org:9699 (FULL NODE+TIMELORD) Korea
node-ms.chivescoin.org:9699 (FULL NODE+TIMELORD) Korea
node-de.chivescoin.org:9699 (FULL NODE) Germany
Chives Install on Windows
Note: For Windows 7, please follow this guide once the installation below is completed for Chives to run properly: How to Run Chives on Windows 7
- Download and install the latest Chives release from Chives Blockchain GitHub (Not changing the install location etc. is recommended) - the file for Windows will end with ".exe".
How to run chives after the installation is complete:
- Launch the Chives shortcut located on the Desktop
How to set up the UploadFarmerData portal and get a Windows node online:
- Navigate to this location in file explorer. Listed in this directory, you will see a folder that starts with "app-", the folder name will depend on what version of Chives you have installed.
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\chives-blockchain
Navigate into the folder starting with "app-" then resources > app.asar.unpacked
Hold the shift key and right click the "daemon" folder and click "copy as path"
Run/open a Powershell window with Administrator rights (Right click + run as administrator)
In the Powershell window, type in "cd" with a space after and right click in the powershell window to paste the folder location we copied in step 3 and hit enter
Type this in the Powershell window and press the enter key: chives.exe start farmer
Type this in the Powershell window and press the enter key: chives.exe keys show (remember the "your Fingerprint" and "First Wallet Address" in first wallet. I recommend opening a notepad file and highlighting the "your Fingerprint field" followed by pressing enter which copies the highlighted fingerprint, then pasting the key in the notepad file - this can also be done with the "First Wallet Address" field)
Open the URL then register an account and login
Click the "My Wallets > Set Farm Portal" menu and input your first 6 numbers of your Fingerprint and First Wallet Address that was obtained in Step 7
Type this in the Powershell window and press the enter key: chives.exe farm uploadfarmerdata (you need to leave the Powershell window open after this command is run for the farmer data to be uploaded to the portal every 10 minutes.)
Click the "My Wallets > My Farm Portal" menu, you will then see the farm/harvester details populate. Currently 10 Farmers have support to show up in the list. There can be a mix of Windows/Linux/Mac farmers in this list. You only need to create the account and enter the Fingerprint and Wallet Address once for the used key.
Chives Install on Linux
OS Used: Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS
Installing Chives:
- To install chives from the GitHub source on Linux, execute the following commands through Terminal/SSH on your Linux device.
- If there is no Linux GUI:
chives init
chives keys add - to add an existing mnemonic
chives keys generate - to generate new keys
- If you are using Linux with a GUI:
sh install-gui.sh
cd chives-blockchain-gui
npm run electron &
Then create/import your key.
How to set up the UploadFarmerData portal and get a Linux node online:
- Type the following commands in a Terminal/SSH window
cd ~/chives-blockchain
. ./activate
chives start farmer
chives keys show
Remember "your Fingerprint" and "First Wallet Address" in first wallet. I recommend opening a text file and highlighting the "your Fingerprint field" followed by pressing enter which copies the highlighted fingerprint, then pasting the key in the notepad file - this can also be done with the "First Wallet Address" field.)
Open the URL then register an account and login.
Click the "My Wallets > Set Farm Portal" menu and input your first 6 numbers of your Fingerprint and First Wallet Address that was obtained in Step 4.
chives farm uploadfarmerdata &
You will need to leave this window open after this command is run for the farmer data to be uploaded to the portal every 10 minutes. If you would like to run this command using a tmux session so it doesn't interrupt the main Terminal/SSH window, please see my tutorial here: Upload Farmer Data With the tmux command
Click the "My Wallets > My Farm Portal" menu, you will then see the farm/harvester details populate. Currently 10 Farmers have support to show up in the list. There can be a mix of Windows/Linux/Mac farmers in this list. You only need to create the account and enter the Fingerprint and Wallet Address once for the used key.
Chives Install on Mac OSX
Installing Brew:
- Installation
Installing Git:
- Installation
Installing Chives:
- Installation
How to run chives after the installation is complete:
- Running Chives
cd ~/chives-blockchain && . ./activate && cd chives-blockchain-gui && npm run electron &
How to set up the UploadFarmerData portal and get a Mac OSX node online:
- Uploading Farmer Data via Terminal
Type in "cd ~/chives-blockchain
. ./activate
chives start farmer
chives keys show
Remember and make note of the "your Fingerprint" that is listed and the "First Wallet Address" located in the first wallet field. I recommend opening a text file and highlighting the "your Fingerprint field" followed by pressing enter which copies the highlighted fingerprint, then pasting the key in the notepad file - this can also be done with the "First Wallet Address" field.)
Open the URL then register an account and login.
Click the "My Wallets > Set Farm Portal" menu and input your first 6 numbers of your Fingerprint and First Wallet Address that was obtained in Step 2.
chives farm uploadfarmerdata (you need to leave this window open after this command is run for the farmer data to be uploaded to the portal every 10 minutes.)
Click the "My Wallets > My Farm Portal" menu, you will then see the farm/harvester details populate. Currently 10 Farmers have support to show up in the list. There can be a mix of Windows/Linux/Mac farmers in this list. You only need to create the account and enter the Fingerprint and Wallet Address once for the used key.
Some of this information was gathered by personal experience and the other information was gathered from the Chives Official Discord from JohnD#8034 and jatdaluram#1111.