Quick guide for beginners

Quick guide for beginners

• Install Ubuntu 16.04 (or buy VPS in Amazon AWS or Google GCP etc) & login to shell
• Install packages

sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python zlib1g-dev wget bsdmainutils automake p7zip-full pwgen 

• Download BitcoinZ

wget https://github.com/bitcoinz-pod/bitcoinz/releases/download/1.0.3/bitcoinz1_03_x64_Ubuntu16_04.zip

• Extract BitcoinZ

7z x bitcoinz1_03_x64_Ubuntu16_04.zip

• Change directory

cd bitcoinz-pkg/

• Create config file

mkdir -p ~/.bitcoinz
echo "rpcuser=rpc`pwgen 15 1`
rpcpassword=rpc`pwgen 15 1`" > ~/.bitcoinz/bitcoinz.conf

Optionally you can add nodes to config file:

addnode=173.212.216.105
addnode=[2604:a880:cad:d0::5e39:4001]
addnode=[2a01:4f8:c0c:3532::2]
addnode=[2a02:c207:2013:2448::1]

• Run full node and wait for download all blocks. Full node should be running don't kill it.

./zcashd -exportdir=.

• Login to second console & change directory to bitcoinz-pkg

cd bitcoinz-pkg/

• Get your public BitcoinZ address (taddr)

./zcash-cli listreceivedbyaddress 0 true

• Get address private key

./zcash-cli dumpprivkey t1VHqiM5GTzVPZY9uSysPP48LfwQgaii1wy

Save private key in safe location

• Send coins

./zcash-cli z_sendmany t1eRPBQ6FAagpjbpRmtzXsjsSvGkorAQFSr '[{"amount": 1, "address": "t1f8xsf4U6qxYajSLD6sFLwKj4qyNRtqLk8"}]'

or Windows client example

zcash-cli z_sendmany "t1eRPBQ6FAagpjbpRmtzXsjsSvGkorAQFSr" "[{\"amount\": 0.1, \"address\": \"t1f8xsf4U6qxYajSLD6sFLwKj4qyNRtqLk8\"}]"

where: t1eRPBQ6FAagpjbpRmtzXsjsSvGkorAQFSr - from address 1 - amount t1f8xsf4U6qxYajSLD6sFLwKj4qyNRtqLk8 - to address

• Get transaxtion id (txid)

./zcash-cli z_getoperationstatus

• Get transaction details (as an argument pass txid from previous step)

./zcash-cli gettransaction ad4a0557eb45dc81ffdc15030be0dbad93e31ac00b66f9311b0e4526103916ff

• Check total balance

./zcash-cli z_gettotalbalance

• In case of disaster recover your address from private key

./zcash-cli importprivkey Kxnabekc1eXJyT7Pwb23GEvmzjArsHW3EYt93KWzrrL7ncqBoSMK

where priv key = Kxnabekc1eXJyT7Pwb23GEvmzjArsHW3EYt93KWzrrL7ncqBoSMK

Backup your wallet

• copy wallet.dat from ~/.bitcoinz folder to safe locations In Windows wallet directory is %APPDATA%\BitcoinZ. Run in cmd:

cd %APPDATA%\BitcoinZ && explorer .

• Run the following command & safe walletdata in safe locations

./zcash-cli z_exportwallet walletdata

More commands: https://github.com/zcash/zcash/blob/master/doc/payment-api.md