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Quick guide for beginners
BitcoinZ edited this page Oct 1, 2017
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Requirements:
- Install Ubuntu 16.04 (or buy VPS in Amazon AWS or Google GCP etc) & login to shell
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitcoinz-pod/bitcoinz/master/zcutil/get-bitcoinz.sh
chmod +x get-bitcoinz.sh
./get-bitcoinz.sh
- Install packages
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev g++-multilib python 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 & fetch params
cd ~/bitcoinz-pkg
./fetch-params.sh
- Create config file
mkdir -p ~/.bitcoinz
echo "rpcuser=rpc`pwgen 15 1`" > ~/.bitcoinz/bitcoinz.conf
echo "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=.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitcoinz-pod/bitcoinz/master/zcutil/setup-bitcoinz-service.sh
chmod +x setup-bitcoinz-service.sh
./setup-bitcoinz-service.sh $USER
Service status:
systemctl status bitcoinz
- Login to 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