hcd is a Hc full node implementation written in Go (golang).
This acts as a chain daemon for the Hc cryptocurrency. hcd maintains the entire past transactional ledger of Hc and allows relaying of quantum resistant transactions to other Hc nodes across the world.
Note: To send or receive funds and join Proof-of-Stake mining, you will also need hcwallet.
Hc is forked from decred and btcd which are full node implementations written in Go. Both projects are ongoing and under active development. Since hcd is synced and will merge with upstream commits from hcd and btcd, it will get the benefit of both hcd and btcd's ongoing upgrades to staking, voting, peer and connection handling, database optimization and other blockchain related technology improvements. Advances made by hcd can also be pulled back upstream to hcd and btcd including quantum resistant signature schemes and more.
This project is currently under active development and is in a Beta state. The default branch of hcd is currently testnet1. Please make sure to use --testnet flag when running hcd and report any issues by using the integrated issue tracker. Do not yet use this software yet as a store of value!
Go 1.7 or newer.
- hcd (and utilities) will now be installed in either
$GOROOT/binor$GOPATH/bindepending on your configuration. If you did not already add the bin directory to your system path during Go installation, we recommend you do so now.
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Dependencies
Glide is used to manage project dependencies and provide reproducible builds. To install:
go get -u github.com/Masterminds/glide
Unfortunately, the use of glide prevents a handy tool such as go get from
automatically downloading, building, and installing the source in a single
command. Instead, the latest project and dependency sources must be first
obtained manually with git and glide, and then go is used to build and
install the project.
Getting the source:
For a first time installation, the project and dependency sources can be
obtained manually with git and glide (create directories as needed):
git clone https://github.com/HcashOrg/hcd $GOPATH/src/github.com/HcashOrg/hcd
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/HcashOrg/hcd
glide install
go install $(glide nv)
To update an existing source tree, pull the latest changes and install the matching dependencies:
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/HcashOrg/hcd
git pull
glide install
go install $(glide nv)
Make sure you are working the correct GOPATH and run the following in your terminal:
hcd -u YOURUNIQUERPCUSERNAME -P YOURUNIQUERPCPASSWORD --testnet
To use your node for mining add the miningaddr flag when running hcd:
hcd -u YOURUNIQUERPCUSERNAME -P YOURUNIQUERPCPASSWORD --testnet --miningaddr=YOURTESTNETADDRESS
To generate a testnet mining address you must install hcwallet
To begin CPU mining after hcd is already running you can run the following in your terminal:
hcctl -u YOURUNIQUEUSERNAME -P YOURUNIQUEPASSWORD --testnet setgenerate true
$ rm -rf $HOME/.hcd
$ rm -rf $HOME/.hcwallet
$ cd $HOME/go/src/github.com/HcashOrg/hcd
$ git pull
$ go install $(glide nv)
$ rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Hcwallet
$ rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Hcd
$ cd $HOME/go/src/github.com/HcashOrg/hcd
$ git pull
$ go install $(glide nv)
The integrated github issue tracker is used for this project.
The documentation is a work-in-progress. It is located in the docs folder.
hcd is licensed under the copyfree ISC License.