This repository hosts a zcashd wallet compatibility shim for legacy users of
the zcashd wallet software for Transparent and Sapling transactions. zcashd
used to be the main consensus node of Zcash, but is now deprecated in favor of
Zakura and
Zebra.
To run this, you must also configure a
Zakura node for the true live
consensus rules. All block data received by the zcashd wallet is checked
twice, once with mainnet Zakura and once with zcashd.
To support the Zcashd wallet, it downloads and stores the entire history of Zcash transactions. Depending on the speed of your computer and network connection, the synchronization process could take several days. This implementation performs blockchain consensus validation, but does not expose APIs for mining. Mining users should use Zakura.
Get started quickly with our installer:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zakura-core/zakura/main/scripts/install-zakura.sh | bash
Or see the full docs here: https://github.com/zakura-core/zakura/blob/main/book/src/user/zcashd-compat.md
Unlike original
zcashd, this Valargroup compatibility build has no scheduled End of Life and does not halt or warn at an End-of-Support block height. Valargroup reserves the right to announce a future End of Life through a Zakura compatibility release. Integrators are encouraged to migrate to Zakura and monitor its CHANGELOG.
This Valargroup compatibility branch is a P2P sidecar build for Zakura. The binary hard-locks P2P networking to exactly one
-connect=<zakura-address>peer, refuses listener/additional-peer options, and does not register theaddnodeRPC.
Zcash is HTTPS for money.
Initially based on Bitcoin's design, Zcash has been developed from the Zerocash protocol to offer a far higher standard of privacy and anonymity. It uses a sophisticated zero-knowledge proving scheme to preserve confidentiality and hide the connections between shielded transactions. More technical details are available in our Protocol Specification.
This repository hosts the zcashd software, a Zcash consensus node
implementation. It downloads and stores the entire history of Zcash
transactions. Depending on the speed of your computer and network
connection, the synchronization process could take several days.
The zcashd code is derived from a source fork of
Bitcoin Core. The code was forked
initially from Bitcoin Core v0.11.2, and the two codebases have diverged
substantially.
Please see our user guide for instructions on joining the main Zcash network.
- 📘 See the documentation at the ReadTheDocs for help and more information.
- 📨 Ask for help on the Zcash forum.
- 💬 Join our community on the Zcash Global Discord.
- 🧑🎓: Learn at ZecHub
Participation in the Zcash project is subject to a Code of Conduct.
Build Zcash along with most dependencies from source by running the following command:
./zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)
Currently, Zcash is only officially supported on Debian and Ubuntu. See the Debian / Ubuntu build page for detailed instructions.
For license information see the file COPYING.