ZERO 1.0.8-1

What is ZERO?

ZERO is is a fork of Zcash that is a fork of Bitcoin.

This software is the ZERO client. It downloads and stores the entire history of ZERO transactions; depending on the speed of your computer and network connection, the synchronization process could take a day or more once the blockchain has reached a significant size.

Announcement

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

Security Warnings

See important security warnings in doc/security-warnings.md.

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

Building

Currently only Linux is officially supported. Requires at least 8GB RAM.

Install packages (needs to be done once only at start)

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

Obtain the ZERO software from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/zerocurrency/zero.git
cd zero
git checkout master

Download cryptographic keys (needs to be done once only)

./zcutil/fetch-params.sh

Build the source code to produce binary executables:

./zcutil/build.sh --disable-rust -j$(nproc)

Create a ZERO configuration file

mkdir -p ~/.zero
echo "rpcuser=username" > ~/.zero/zero.conf
echo "rpcpassword=`head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64`" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
echo "addnode=35.164.216.74" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
echo "addnode=94.176.235.178" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
echo "rpcport=23800" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf

Enable CPU mining (optional)

echo 'gen=1' >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
echo "genproclimit=1" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
echo 'equihashsolver=tromp' >> ~/.zero/zero.conf

When mining you're helping to strengthen the network and contributing to a social good. GPU mining is now possible, please see the announcement thread for more details.

Running & Using ZERO

After all the building steps you will have ZERO ready for use in folder zero/src. The two important binary executables are zcashd and zcash-cli.

Your wallet will be created (on first zcashd start) here: ~/.zero/wallet.zero Please backup your wallet periodically and keep it safe.

The usage is currently the same as for ZCash. For more information see the ZCash User Guide.

Donations

Donations for running nodes and for development are welcomed here: t1gUHkWqcC9ruk6iGkeDKnxtPAsrgm8AGVt