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Ubuntu installation

This is the independent-operator path. It does not use project private keys.

  1. Create an unprivileged user such as nvc.
  2. Obtain the verified novacoin-node binary. The production baseline at specification time was SHA-256:
9a76984ef56080bd6ca51372a10f41596b38a4f0881180272348d23bbfc7f081
  1. Install it to /usr/local/bin/novacoin-node and mark it executable.
  2. Install the published evm-mainnet.toml and verify:
f8d520f016d4082bae3cc5287003d1e348c79de83b44805b0918d3c490a7d3bb
  1. Create /var/lib/nvc and /var/log/nvc owned by the node user.

Never run a downloaded binary whose hash does not match a published release.