zepio/NODE.md

Zcash Node Setup

Installation

Download the attached files, verify checksum of the archive and extract

shasum -a 256 -c zcash-macos-v2.0.1a.tar.bz2.hash
tar -xvf zcash-macos-v2.0.1a.tar.bz2

How to use

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

cd zcash-macos-v2.0.1a/usr/local/bin
./zcash-fetch-params
./zcash-init
./zcashd

You can just run Zcash by launching the daemon afterwards:

./zcashd

You can refer to NODE_COMMANDS for basic usage