Misc scripts for working with Verus Coin
All of these scripts have been at least lightly tested, but come with no warranty whatsoever for any purpose. Use at your own risk.
See comments at the top of each script for usage information.
Update the config file (named 'config') with the path to your Verus CLI RPC executable. Some scripts depend on bc (command-line calculator), jq (command-line json parser, constructor, pretty-printer), or xxd (command-line hex-dumps and reverse hex-dumps).
Gives tab-completion for the verus and komodo-cli RPC commands in a bash shell. At the moment it only auto-completes commands, but I intend to add support for a few dynamic types. To make use of it run source verus-completion.bash in your shell, or add that to your .bashrc (you may have to adjust paths).
Gives tab-completion for the verus and komodo-cli RPC commands in a zsh shell. Same instructions as for the bash version, substituting zsh as appropriate.
Sendmessage will send an encrypted private message using the memo field of a private transaction. It costs a fee to send, and sends a small amount of Verus to the receipient, both of these amounts are configurable.
Getmessages lists memo fields of all transactions received at a particular private address. It's simple and bare-bones, but does the job.
Send funds to the specified address in separate transactions of the desired size - useful for managing the size of UTXOs, such as for staking.
Takes the script hex for a timelocked transaction and returns the block number at which that TX will unlock.
Takes a TXID as the first argument and returns full TX data, including for transactions that aren't associated with addresses in the local wallet. This is just a wrapper for RPC functions.
Takes an address as the first argument and returns all UTXOs for that address. Just used to simplify syntax of the corresponding RPC call.
Fetches the crurent CoinGecko VRSC price. Takes an optional argument for the currency to get the price in, or list to get a list of supported currencies. Defaults to USD.
Fetch a recent bootstrap file with blockchain data to get up and running quickly on a new install or fix a broken instance without re-syncing the whole chain.
List the balance for all addresses that have one, as determined through results of listunspent from the RPC. Tab delimited for easy use in scripting.
Finds unspent minted (staked) coinbases and spends them forward to the same address to allow them to stake. Preserves privacy by not comingling addresses, and optionally allows the use of a delay to reduce the chances of time-correlation.
Presents a nicely structured and pretty-printed json output of current balance information, combining the output of getwalletinfo and z_gettotalbalance to present these balances: transparent, unconfirmed, immature, private, and total (all combined). Also presents private balance as a number, rather than text, unlike z_gettotalbalance.
I have this set as an entry in my .profile on a number of staking systems so the balance is presented on login.
Scripts that are no longer recommended or are less relevant
Simple staker shields coinbases to a private address, then moves available private address balances to public addresses (randomly selected from those available, creating new addresses if necessary) for staking. This script can be run manually, set up as a cron job, or used with the blocknotify parameter to execute every X blocks (not recommended if you're still syncing the chain).
Deprecated because shielding and unshielding is no longer required and is known to reduce privacy by correlating addresses. Mined coinbases can now be spent or staked directly. Minted (staked) coinbases can be spent directly, but not staked - please see stakepusher.sh for an option to consolidate and spend minted coinbases so they're stakeable.
If you're working with wallet files, particularly dumps containing plain-text private keys, I highly recommend tomb for keeping your work safe.