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Zcash Node Setup
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 for instructions on how to install it.
For macOS users, please follow this guide 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:
shasum -a 256 -c zcash-macos-v2.0.1a.tar.bz2.hash
tar -xvf zcash-macos-v2.0.1a.tar.bz2
Running
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
You can just run Zcash by launching the daemon afterwards:
./zcashd
Basic Commands
Along with zcashd, the daemon provides the zcash-cli utility which allows you to run RPC commands to your node, and receive the output data.
Some useful commands can be found below:
General
List information for a command
./zcash-cli help <command>
List all shielded addresses
./zcash-cli z_listaddresses
Create new shielded address
./zcash-cli z_getnewaddress
Get total balance
./zcash-cli z_gettotalbalance
Sending Funds
export ZADDR='zcNeXiyD3JkhKTrU38xM9C6HQGy9aP5qqVFH25qFzQGnmdwYZ2Dr53Jy7iRp64D4CzkMZdmKagN6mmtu3jVKHuZ8xZp8fw3'
export FRIEND='zcfZJW3qLHpSc7q7W1SXRGdVjgM6Q6kRwdkz1DHW5sP2EqcMHf5RCp3Frpf2qnb81j9K6upzRN4HoVxfboVwLTRaZ7bKn8b'
Send from shielded address to shielded address (with memo and fee)
./zcash-cli z_sendmany "$ZADDR" "[{\"address\": \"$FRIEND\", \"amount\": 0.05, \"memo\": \"9876543210\"}]" 1 0.002
Get send result
./zcash-cli z_getoperationresult [\"$OPID\"]
List amounts received by shielded address
./zcash-cli z_listreceivedbyaddress "$ZADDR"