/bitcoinz

BitcoinZ - Pure community & freedom coin with anonymous transactions support. Mother coins: ZCL, ZEC, BTC.

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BitcoinZ - Your Financial Freedom

Community gift to the World.

  • Type: Cryptocurrency
  • Ticker: BTZ
  • Algo: Equihash
  • Max supply 21B coins / Current supply: 12500 coins every 2.5 minutes
  • Tech: zcl spirit + zcash white paper + bitcoin.
  • Current block size is similar to BCC/BCH (BTZ = 2MB every 2.5 mins ~ BCC/BCH = 8MB every 10 min)
  • Mother coins: ZCL, ZEC, BTC

BitcoinZ Principles:

  • Anonymous It is recommended to use anonymous zaddr for all transactions. Public taddrs transactions are also allowed.
  • All contributors are welcome and everyone is volunteer - no premine or dev taxes (Satoshi has about 10% of BTC marketcap!)
  • Store of value - always POW and never POS
  • Fully decentralized cryptocurrency (no root domain, no main website, no main dev team)
  • Decentralized development Developers are self organized in development pods. Every new dev or team is welcome. All implementations which follow consensus are allowed. No need to register - just create new pod account (e.g. github) and convince community.
  • Decentralized mining As a miner you should not use the biggest pools to follow main principles.
  • Easy to mine Equihash algorithm. You can use your Desktop PC to mine BitcoinZ. Most profitable is GPU mining.
  • Decentalized Exchanges All exchanges are allowed. The best one are decentralized. We plan to implement fully decentralized XCAT exchange.
  • Pure community coin
  • Always immutable - no way to change history!

bitcointalk.org ANN thread

Roadmap

  • Update to latest Zcash codebase
  • Finish rebranding

Install

Linux

Get dependencies

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

Install

# Build
./zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)
# fetch key
./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
# Run
./src/zcashd

Windows

Get dependencies

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 mingw-w64

Install (Cross-Compiled, building on Windows is not supported yet)

# Build
./zcutil/build-win.sh -j$(nproc)

The exe will save to src which you can then move to a windows machine

Mac

Get dependencies

#install xcode
xcode-select --install

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install cmake autoconf libtool automake coreutils pkgconfig gmp wget

brew install gcc5 --without-multilib

Install

# Build
./zcutil/build-mac.sh -j$(nproc)
# fetch key
./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
# Run
./src/zcashd

Security Warnings

See important security warnings in doc/security-warnings.md.

BitcoinZ is unfinished and highly experimental. Use at your own risk.