LitecoinZ is an implementation of the "Zerocash" protocol forked from ZCash. Based on Bitcoin's code, it intends to offer a far higher standard of privacy through a sophisticated zero-knowledge proving scheme that preserves confidentiality of transaction metadata.
This software is the LitecoinZ client. It downloads and stores the entire history of LitecoinZ 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.
LitecoinZ is released under the terms of the MIT license.
See LICENSE for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
On Ubuntu/Debian-based systems:
$ sudo apt-get install \
build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib \
autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python \
zlib1g-dev wget bsdmainutils automake
On Fedora-based systems:
$ sudo dnf install \
git pkgconfig automake autoconf ncurses-devel python \
python-zmq wget gtest-devel gcc gcc-c++ libtool patch
Fetch our repository with git and run fetch-params.sh like so:
$ git clone https://github.com/litecoinz-project/litecoinz.git
$ cd litecoinz/
$ git checkout v1.0.14
$ ./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
Ensure you have successfully installed all system package dependencies as described above. Then run the build, e.g.:
$ ./zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)
This should compile our dependencies and build litecoinzd. (Note: if you don't have nproc, then substitute the number of cores on your system. If the build runs out of memory, try again without the -j argument, i.e. just ./zcutil/build.sh. )
Create the ~/.litecoinz directory and place a configuration file at ~/.litecoinz/litecoinz.conf using the following commands:
$ mkdir -p ~/.litecoinz
$ echo "addnode=88.86.186.158" > ~/.litecoinz/litecoinz.conf
$ echo "rpcuser=username" >> ~/.litecoinz/litecoinz.conf
$ echo "rpcpassword=`head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64`" >> ~/.litecoinz/litecoinz.conf
If you want to enable CPU mining, run these commands:
$ echo 'gen=1' >> ~/.litecoinz/litecoinz.conf
$ echo "genproclimit=-1" >> ~/.litecoinz/litecoinz.conf
Setting genproclimit=-1 mines on the maximum number of threads possible on your CPU. If you want to mine with a lower number of threads, set genproclimit equal to the number of threads you would like to mine on.
Now, run litecoinzd!
$ ./src/litecoinzd
To run it in the background (without the node metrics screen that is normally displayed) use ./src/litecoinzd --daemon.
You should be able to use the RPC after it finishes loading. Here's a quick way to test:
$ ./src/litecoinz-cli getinfo
To see the peers you are connected to:
$ ./src/litecoinz-cli getpeerinfo
As LitecoinZ is an extension of bitcoin, litecoinz-cli supports all commands that are part of the Bitcoin Core API (as of version 0.11.2), https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls_list
To list all LitecoinZ commands, use ./src/litecoinz-cli help.
To get help with a particular command, use ./src/litecoinz-cli help <command>.
- Download Windows release binary here
- Download parameter file here and uncompress the content inside the folder
"C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\LitecoinZParams" - Manually edit the
litecoinz.conffile inside the folder"C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\LitecoinZ" - Run
litecoinzd.exe - Optionally run the Java Wallet GUI (already provided inside the download release binary)
LitecoinzSwingWalletUI.cmd
A Java Wallet GUI is available here.
Donations for supporting developers are welcome:
- LTC: LgSbGGqru5LVHE3cWcgwZDLjr3WorGahr3
- BTC: 1N2rQimKbeUQA8N2LU5vGopYQJmZsBM2d6
- ZEC: t1T8hAYzLNwe2rLQpFMjx9z9FHFd6oQ86P9
- BTG: GNkwW2uS4ed7cofz94J8PrTXJnZgmk5nr2
- BTCZ: t1cmr2QUMCEBRhUVrZHsgC6DnrdzC2FyHz7
Thanks
LitecoinZ is experimental and a work-in-progress. Use at your own risk.
Participation in the LitecoinZ project is subject to a Code of Conduct.
- QT Wallet
- Backports from Bitcoin 0.12+