ZERO 1.0.14-1

What is ZERO?

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.

Announcements

Launch date: 2017-02-19 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1796036.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2525344.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3310714.0

Security Warnings

See important security warnings on the Security Information page.

ZERO is unfinished and highly experimental. Use at your own risk.

Deprecation Policy

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.

Building

Currently only Linux build is officially supported. 8GB RAM is recommended.

Install packages (needs to be done only once)

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

Download cryptographic keys (needs to be done only once)

./zcutil/fetch-params.sh

Obtain the ZERO software from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/ProphetAlgorithms/zero-1.0.14-1-bitcore.git
cd zero-1.0.14-1-bitcore
git checkout master

Build the source code to produce binary executables:

./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

Create a ZERO configuration file

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

Seeder Nodes

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

Enable CPU mining (optional)

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

Running & Using ZERO

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.

License

For license information see the file COPYING.

Donations

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