Blazecoin Wallet 2.0.8 (macOS)

Blazecoin Wallet 2.0.8 (macOS)

What this is: the first macOS build of the V2 desktop wallet — the same wallet as the Windows release,
as a universal app (Apple Silicon and Intel), bundling Blazecoin Core v2.1.0, the post-quantum
fork node. It runs a full node on your Mac; the wallet talks to it locally, nothing leaves your machine
except normal peer-to-peer traffic.

Re-issued 2026-09-24. The zip on this tag was replaced during the day as the Intel build was brought
up to the Apple Silicon one (details under What changed). If you downloaded earlier, download again
and check the hash below; the Apple Silicon build only gained the smaller fixes.

Download & verify

• BlazecoinWalletV2-2.0.8-macOS-universal.zip — the wallet application (126 MB)

Verify the download is intact:

shasum -a 256 BlazecoinWalletV2-2.0.8-macOS-universal.zip

Expected:

51c57a6c852311cb6d06245c133278a1bed939465041c45d0691a4d6c4c51f09

Install & first launch

This build is ad-hoc signed (not notarized — there is no Apple Developer account behind it), so macOS
Gatekeeper blocks the first launch. Unzip the download and move Blazecoin Wallet V2.app into /Applications,
then get past Gatekeeper one of two ways:

macOS 15 (Sequoia) and later — double-click the app, click Done on the "Apple could not verify…"
dialog, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to Security, click Open Anyway
next to the app and confirm. (On macOS 12–14: right-click the app → Open → Open.)

Any version, one Terminal command — removes the download's quarantine flag:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Blazecoin Wallet V2.app"

What changed in the re-issues (2026-09-24)

Verified on a 2021 M1 Pro (macOS 27) and a 2019 16-inch Intel MacBook Pro (macOS 26.5).

• Intel Macs launch and run properly. The first upload quit on launch on Intel; the Intel half of the
  app now runs the standard .NET runtime instead of an interpreter, so it is as responsive as the Apple
  Silicon half.
• Dual-GPU Intel MacBook Pros use their discrete GPU while the wallet is open. macOS was driving the
  Retina display with the integrated GPU, which made every page feel slow. Expect a little more fan and
  battery use on those machines while the wallet runs; it hands the GPU back when you quit.
• Faster page changes and image loading on every Mac: background images are cached between pages
  instead of being reloaded and decoded every time, and the Import, Backup and Quantum Exposure
  animations no longer redraw the whole screen every frame.
• Provenance works out of the box. The bundled node now keeps a transaction index, which the
  Provenance page needs. The index builds in the background after the first launch and takes about
  15 minutes on an M1; Provenance shows results once it is complete.
• Sync progress is visible from the first minute. While the node pre-syncs headers the status bar
  says so, with a count, instead of sitting at "0 / 0 blocks".
• One-click "Create wallet" on the first-run screen (the Terminal command is still shown as a fallback).
• PDF export of transactions works on Apple Silicon. It needs macOS 15 or newer.
• V1.5 wallet import converts the old Berkeley DB file directly, including files written by the
  macOS V1.5 build, and rescans from where V1.5 left off.
• The app icon is the Blazecoin icon, the dashboard coins are sharp on Retina displays, and the window
  is dark regardless of the system appearance.

Notes for users

• Wallet and chain data live at ~/Library/Application Support/BlazecoinV2.0/. The wallet starts the
  bundled node on launch and stops it cleanly when you quit; a node you started yourself is left alone
  (and then keeps running after you quit — stop it with the command below if you need to).

• First launch downloads and verifies the full chain — allow a few hours. The status bar shows the
  header pre-sync, then headers, then blocks.

• A brand-new install has no wallet yet, so the first screen says No wallet found — click
  Create wallet "Primary" and the app makes one. (The card also shows the equivalent Terminal
  command; the node's tools live inside the app bundle, which is why it carries the full path:

  "/Applications/Blazecoin Wallet V2.app/Contents/MacOS/blazecoin-cli" -named createwallet wallet_name="Primary"
  

  Then click Check again. (… blazecoin-cli stop stops the node the same way.)

• Bringing a V1.5 wallet across: Import page → Choose wallet.dat… → your V1.5 wallet.dat (on a Mac
  it is at ~/Library/Application Support/BlazecoinV1.5/wallet.dat; the file dialog hides the Library
  folder, so press ⌘⇧G and paste the path, or copy the file to your Desktop first). It is converted to the
  V2 descriptor format and rescanned from where V1.5 left off; your V1.5 file is not modified and a
  .legacy.bak copy is kept beside the new wallet.

• Back up your wallet (Backup page) after you receive coins.

Known limitations

• Requires macOS 12 (Monterey) or newer; PDF export requires macOS 15 or newer.
• Not notarized: the Gatekeeper step above is needed on every fresh download.
• The Backup page has no folder picker on macOS — type or paste the destination path.
• Transaction exports save straight to ~/Downloads.
• On the Intel MacBook Pro the Quantum Exposure page's drifting background can still drop the odd frame.