Wilke Trei wrote a piece about running an own node of the Beam MW network. An always-online own node allows you to connect to your wallets on all your devices to this trusted node.
Thanks to Google Cloud’s Always Free program and the low resource usage of the Mimblewimble protocol behind Beam, it is possible to create an instance on Google Cloud Compute that runs a full Beam node, 24⁄7, without it costing you anything. This article will guide you to do your own node setup.
The article has these sections:
- How to create your Google Cloud Compute node
- How to access the VM and install the node
- How to configure the node
- Firewall and network setup
- Creating an always online wallet
Setting up an own free Beam node is rather easy and definitely worth the effort. But when your node is running please always monitor your cloud account from time to time to make sure that the node does not exceed the free resources. Great article for anybody into crypto currencies!
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