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

cd ~
wget https://github.com/bitcoinz-pod/bitcoinz/releases/download/1.1.1/bitcoinz1_1_1_x64.zip 

• Extract BitcoinZ

7z x bitcoinz1_1_1_x64.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
- Run full node and wait for download all blocks. Full node should be running don't kill it.

cd ~/bitcoinz-pkg ./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