So litecoincash is out. Let's not waste time in what it's and what is not, this post is a simple guide to start and run litecoincash core wallet in a gnu/linux machine. I'm using debian. The wallet will not be installed system wide, but used in a folder as a user process, so no root is required and risk of affecting the system is minimal. If you still don't feel confident, just run it in a virtual machine.
- OPTIONAL: download the bootstrap for the wallet syncing from here. This will speed up the syncing of the wallet, which may take several hours. I'd recommend using torrent, me and many others are doing our best to seed.
download the wallet from the website
extract it either by right clicking on the folder and "extract" or cd into the folder and
tar -xf litecoincash-0.15.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gzcd into the folder or go normally into the folder and open terminal there
once in the folder with the terminal type
./litecoincash-qtYou will be asked where to place the data dir. I'd say stick for the common and put it in
~/.litecoincashAdd a list of peers to the wallet.
Settings > Options > Open configuration fileand paste the following. Be careful: it could be dangerous to add malicious nodes, so I'm posting this here in good faith and it is my personal node list, but do your own research and see who to trust. This will speed it up quite much.
addnode=5.189.170.196:62458
addnode=159.89.6.189:62458
addnode=73.130.131.19
addnode=207.201.218.201
addnode=70.160.76.254
addnode=24.99.21.129
addnode=103.69.195.170
addnode=69.143.82.147:62458
addnode=192.111.148.136:62458
addnode=178.62.215.167:62458
addnode=80.108.41.4:62458
addnode=46.43.9.237:62458
addnode=144.202.8.82:62458
addnode=35.231.82.152:62458
addnode=54.64.147.208:62458
addnode=35.189.144.78:62458
addnode=24.129.114.44:62458
addnode=46.101.118.113:62458
addnode=144.202.8.82:62458
addnode=45.63.89.33:62458
addnode=66.70.180.59:62458
addnode=108.249.146.109:62458
addnode=35.231.82.152:62458
addnode=178.62.215.167:62458
addnode=46.43.9.237:62458
addnode=[2001:0:5ef5:79fb:343a:3359:9c0e:cf4f]:62458
addnode=[2001:0:9d38:6abd:30a3:d24:7257:1b62]:62458
addnode=[2001:0:5ef5:79fb:4c0:1c6b:bfaa:7d71]:62458
addnode=[2001:0:5ef5:79fb:2431:906:e7d2:2abb]:62458
- quit the wallet
- place
bootstrap.dat.zipin the~/.litecoincashfolder and extract it there either by right click > extract here or unzip bootstrap.dat.zip
- once is done, fire up the litecoincash-qt again.
- If it doesn't quickly start syncing, quit it and start it like this:
./litecoincash-qt -datadir=/home/user/.litecoincash -loadblock=/home/user/.litecoincash/bootstrap.dat
Use absolute path as I've seen that using ~ as /home/user/ is not recognized.
Let it sync, it will take few hours
- After it's synced and all, just click on
file > import private keyand import your private keys.
ATTENTION: DON'T PUT HERE ANY KEY HOLDING ANY LTC! If the address you had at the snapshot time (block 1371111) still has some ltc, empty it before importing that priv key into litecoincash core. Play it safe.
