The original `zcashd` daemon built by the Zcash Company, is built entirely in for Linux systems. If you're running a Linux distro, you should look [here](https://github.com/zcash/zcash) for instructions on how to install it.
For macOS users, please follow [this guide](https://github.com/kozyilmaz/zcash-apple) to build the binaries locally on your machine and then install it. After downloading the tarball and the hash, use the steps below to kickstart your node and connect it to the network.
## Installing
Download the attached files from Zcash Apple repository, verify the checksum of the archive and then extract its contents:
When launching Zcash on macOS for the first time, certain initialization steps should be completed. Please run the commands below once for the first time