ZERO is is a fork of Zcash that in turn 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.
Launch date: 2017-02-19 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1796036.0
Comunity took over: 2017-12-05 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2525344.0
See important security warnings on the Security Information page.
ZERO is unfinished and highly experimental. Use at your own risk.
This release is considered deprecated 16 weeks after the release day. There is an automatic deprecation shutdown feature which will halt the node some time after this 16 week time period. The automatic feature is based on block height and can be explicitly disabled.
Currently only Linux is officially supported. Requires at least 8GB RAM.
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
git clone https://github.com/backendmaster/zero.git
cd zero
git checkout master
./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
./zcutil/build.sh --disable-rust -j$(nproc)
mkdir -p ~/.zero
echo "rpcuser=username" > ~/.zero/zero.conf
echo "rpcpassword=`head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64`" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
echo "rpcport=23800" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
As of 07/12/2017 the following seeder nodes work:
addnode=zeropool.cloud:23801
addnode=139.162.188.122:23801
addnode=188.166.2.55:23801
addnode=94.176.235.178:23801
addnode=2a01:4f8:a0:8298::2:23801
addnode=2a02:168:5829:0:b486:978b:2017:dd2:23801
addnode=213.239.212.246:23801
addnode=213.32.78.132:23801
addnode=64.237.50.236:23801
addnode=139.162.188.122:23801
Check the thread for seeder node updates. The way you add seeder nodes to the config file:
echo "addnode=zeropool.cloud" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf
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.
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.
For license information see the file COPYING.
Donations for running nodes and for development are welcomed here: t1XpvXbN3UoBZf4yEsmz3oQt9UGp2TCEUu3