Zcash :: ZECWallet CLI Getting Started Tutorial

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Zcash :: ZECWallet CLI Getting Started Tutorial

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Table of Contents

• Install ZECWallet ClI
• Create a new Wallet & Address
• Create a Gemini Exchange Wallet Account
• Buy ZEC @ Gemini
• Send ZEC to your ZecWallet CLI Z-address

What we will be learning in this tutorial

NOTE: it is not possible to purchase ZEC via zecwallet-cli.

• Navigating the command-line through a terminal emulator
• Installing ZECWallet-Light-CLI via Homebrew
• Creating a ZEC compatible wallet and corresponding transparent & shielded addresses
• Creating a Gemini centralized exchange account in order to purchase ZEC
• Sending ZEC to our local ZEC compatible wallet
• Backup & restore of wallet file
• Destroy wallet file & import wallet from seed phrase
• Send message with a memo to ZECPages via zecwallet-cli

What software must be pre-installed on your computer?

The only software needed to follow this tutorial is homebrew (BREW(1))

• which brew

What you need to know

• Understand how to launch and operate a terminal emulator (i.e. Terminal.app, Alacritty.app, iTerm.app)
• Be familiar with installing packages via homebrew

Install ZECWallet CLI

❯ brew install zecwallet-cli

Version

❯ zecwallet-cli --version
Zecwallet CLI 1.7.2
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Help

❯ zecwallet-cli --help
Zecwallet CLI 1.7.2

USAGE:
    zecwallet-cli [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [ARGS]

FLAGS

• -h, --help: Prints help information
• -n, --nosync: Prevents automatic sync at startup.

OPTIONS

• --birthday <birthday>: Specify wallet birthday when restoring from seed. This is the earlist block height where the wallet has a transaction.
• --password <password>: When recovering seed, specify a password for the encrypted wallet
• -s, --seed <seed_phrase>: Create a new wallet with the given 24-word seed phrase. Will fail if wallet already exists
• --server <server>: Lightwalletd server to connect to. [default: https://lwdv3.zecwallet.co]

ARGS

• <COMMAND>: Command to execute. If a command is not specified, zecwallet-cli will start in interactive mode.
• <PARAMS>...: Params to execute command with. Run the 'help' command to get usage help.

COMMANDS

❯ zecwallet-cli help

• new - Create a new address in this wallet
• encryptmessage - Encrypt a memo to be sent to a z-address offline
• balance - Show the current ZEC balance in the wallet
• encrypt - Encrypt the wallet with a password
• unlock - Unlock wallet encryption for spending
• clear - Clear the wallet state, rolling back the wallet to an empty state.
• addresses - List all addresses in the wallet
• decryptmessage - Attempt to decrypt a message with all the view keys in the wallet.
• sendprogress - Get the progress of any send transactions that are currently computing
• defaultfee - Returns the default fee in zats for outgoing transactions
• lock - Lock a wallet that's been temporarily unlocked
• shield - Shield your transparent ZEC into a sapling address
• list - List all transactions in the wallet
• encryptionstatus - Check if the wallet is encrypted and if it is locked
• zecprice - Get the latest ZEC price in the wallet's currency (USD)
• export - Export private key for wallet addresses
• quit - Quit the lightwallet, saving state to disk
• decrypt - Completely remove wallet encryption
• height - Get the latest block height that the wallet is at
• syncstatus - Get the sync status of the wallet
• import - Import spending or viewing keys into the wallet
• info - Get the lightwalletd server's info
• seed - Display the seed phrase
• verify - Verify from the latest checkpoint
• send - Send ZEC to the given address
• notes - List all sapling notes and utxos in the wallet
• rescan - Rescan the wallet, downloading and scanning all blocks and transactions
• sync - Download CompactBlocks and sync to the server
• save - Save wallet file to disk
• help - Lists all available commands

Remove ZECWallet CLI Installation

❯ brew uninstall zcash/formulae/zecwallet-light-cli
❯ brew untap zcash/formulae