hcd

Important Info for RC1 Testnet

RC1 Testnet is being restarted with updated parameters to prevent the issue of no blocks being made for long periods of time after ASIC miners join the network and leave once the difficulty has increased. Users who have previously connected to RC1 testnet will need to follow the instructions below to ensure they are on the most up-to-date network. When the status below is "Active" you can follow the install instructions below to connect. When the status is "Temporarily Inactive" please wait until the status is updated to "Active" before attempting to join the testnet. If you have previously connected to RC1 testnet you will need to follow the instructions below to connect to the most recent testnet! If you cannot find peers it is because the DNS seeds are not yet active. In this case you must wait until the Status is updated to Active and follow the instructions below to grab the latest peer info. Additionally you will need to create a new wallet and set a new config file.

Status: Temporarily Inactive

Linux

$ rm -rf $HOME/.hcd
$ rm -rf $HOME/.hcwallet
$ cd $HOME/go/src/github.com/coolsnady/hcd
$ git pull
$ go install $(glide nv)

Mac/OSX

$ rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Hcwallet
$ rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Hcd
$ cd $HOME/go/src/github.com/coolsnady/hcd
$ git pull
$ go install $(glide nv)

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.

Current State

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!

Requirements

Go 1.7 or newer.

Getting Started

• hcd (and utilities) will now be installed in either $GOROOT/bin or $GOPATH/bin depending 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.

Installing

Build from Source

• 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/coolsnady/hcd $GOPATH/src/github.com/coolsnady/hcd
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/coolsnady/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/coolsnady/hcd
git pull
glide install
go install $(glide nv)

Running

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

Issue Tracker

The integrated github issue tracker is used for this project.

Documentation

The documentation is a work-in-progress. It is located in the docs folder.

License

hcd is licensed under the copyfree ISC License.