Getting Setup

The only external service PowerPool relies on in is Redis.

sudo apt-get install redis-server

Setup a virtualenv and install...

mkvirtualenv pp  # if you've got virtualenvwrapper...
# Install all of powerpools dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Install powerpool
pip install -e .
# Install the hashing algorithm modules
pip install vtc_scrypt  # for scryptn support
pip install drk_hash  # for x11 support
pip install ltc_scrypt  # for scrypt support
pip install git+https://github.com/BlueDragon747/Blakecoin_Python_POW_Module.git@e3fb2a5d4ea5486f52f9568ffda132bb69ed8772#egg=blake_hash

Now copy config.yml.example to config.yml. Fill out all required fields and you should be good to go for testing.

pp config.yml

And now your stratum server is running. Point a miner at it on localhost:3333 (or more specifically, stratum+tcp://localhost:3333 and do some mining. View server health on the monitor port at http://localhost:3855. Various events will be getting logged into RabbitMQ to be picked up by a celery worker. See Simple Coin for a reference implementation of Celery task handler.