ZERO is a fork of Zcash. Zcash is a fork of Bitcoin that adds shielded transaction via zk-SNARKs.
This software is the ZERO node. It downloads and stores the entire history of ZERO transactions, about 1GB at this point. Depending on the speed of your computer and network connection, the synchronization process could take several hours.
Launch date: 2017-02-19 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1796036.0
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See important security warnings on the Security Information page.
ZERO is unfinished and highly experimental. Use at your own risk.
This release is considered deprecated 26 weeks after the release day. There is an automatic deprecation shutdown feature which will halt the node some time after this 26 week time period. The automatic feature is based on block height and can be explicitly disabled.
Currently only Linux build is officially supported. 8GB RAM is recommended.
sudo apt-get install \
build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib \
autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python python-zmq \
zlib1g-dev wget bsdmainutils automake cmake
./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
git clone https://github.com/zerocurrencycoin/zero.git
cd zero
git checkout master
./zcutil/build.sh --disable-rust -j$(nproc)
On a typical laptop -j3 works fine, while retaining some UI interactivity
./zcutil/build.sh --disable-rust -j3
mkdir -p ~/.zero
echo "rpcuser=YOUR_USER" > ~/.zero/zero.conf
echo "rpcpassword=`head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64`" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
echo "rpcport=23800" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
As of 05/12/2018 the following seeder nodes are up and run a recent Linux version:
addnode=34.236.37.74
addnode=47.148.160.233
echo 'gen=1' >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
echo "genproclimit=1" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
echo 'equihashsolver=tromp' >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
A sample of the current zero.conf
./contrib/zero.conf
A sample demonstrating a large number of command line options
./contrib/debian/examples/zero.conf
After a successful build ZERO binaries are in ./src. The two important binaries are zcashd and zcash-cli.
Your wallet will be created (on first zcashd run) in: ~/.zero/wallet.zero Please backup your wallet often and keep it safe.
The usage is currently the same ZCash. For more information see the ZCash User Guide.
For license information see the file COPYING.
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