For the last few months I have been pouring into Masternodes and Staking and deciding on what direction I want to go. Now lets make this clear now, Zencash Secure Nodes are not "masternodes" as they have other jobs (domain fronting): which ill get into a later post more into its technology. These Secure Nodes process transactions, hold a valid TLS SSL certificate and a legitimate domain. This helps Zencash to support users in areas with internet censorship using a unique protocol that I have not seen used in other coins.
After the fork of Zclassic in May of 2017, Zencash was born and have been hard at work on new improvements. With over 300 contributors in Git you can see they are very busy.
https://github.com/ZencashOfficial/zen
After doing my own due diligence in research I decided to buy enough for two Zencash Secure Nodes (42 coins each).
Building my first Secure Node:
I found some guides and read through them a few times before starting, and I found using a Youtube video, along with blockops got me most of the way there with copying and pasting.
Source: Johnny Bravo's Youtube channel.
https://blockoperations.com/how-to-build-and-operate-a-zencash-secure-node/
BlockOperations guide to setting up a VPS and secure masternode.
Though near the end of the guide, I made a mistake in putting a command in a config file that was suppose to be a stand alone command and not in the script.. Well this caused zend not to start and a communication issue with secnodetracker. I worked with the Discord team to resolve, which they got to me in minutes Sto1cNate and psyrax helped me till resolved. Now I get emails about my downtime with their guides.
I was able to get my node listed on tracker page and passed compliance checks right away. Now waiting a week for payments to start.
24 Hours later building my second Secure Node:
Sto1cNate has written a guide that really helped me through the setup process, he had an innovative way of bootstrapping the blockchain from my first Secure Node to my second node I was building. This saved me 12 hours of waiting. We worked through the guide and went very smooth.
Here is his guide: https://forum.zencash.com/t/guide-secure-node-abbreviated-guide-bootstrapping-parallel-node-management-backup-and-restore-v1-4/1659
Going forward:
I plan to use his backup guide in the terrible case that the VPS erases my ubuntu build.
I may move to a cheaper VPS, OVH is being considered.
Trying out both Arizen and Zencash Desktop wallet and seeing which I like better.
Tips:
Make sure to backup your z_addr's private keys after Secure Node setup.
I also found a docker script to set up a Zencash node, i have not used but good to know about.
WhenLamboMoon.. hah yes that is their Git name.
https://github.com/WhenLamboMoon/docker-zen-node
Thank you Sto1cNate and psyrax for the help right away on Discord. Sto1cNate great guide
This is not financial advise, just my personal opinion. Do your own due diligence.
@solominer nice write-up about the ZenCash secure node installation experience. Great to hear that people in the community are able to help you out and it worked out well so far.
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@blockops
thank you! Between your guide, youtube and Sto1cNate ive had little to no issues.
The Zencash community is strong.
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Interesting, and if you just hold Zencash in your wallet does this makes staking?
Also you might be interested to check this video
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@flodner
Agreed, sweet video I think thats the co-founder, no.. only secure and super nodes mint coins, you cannot do it just holding coins in a wallet. Good question though!
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Lit bro! Finally you got your MN running. :D
I do not know that much about zencash but you seem very stoked about it haha. Nice article - very well explained imo.
I only knew that zencash is a fork of zclassic; but I forgot what zclassic is too. I am a mess, I guess haha.
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@gandalfthewhite
Thanks man, been planning this for months so glad I have something up and running. I have a few others in mind, so expect more of these.
I only recently learned of ZenCash, it kept coming up in live chats in my Youtube Crypto Shows I watch. I know of zclassic and zcoin and the whole dev fee thing. Made me not want to get into it, so when I learned of this fork years later I was sold.
Yeah forks are interesting to watch, lets people go the way they want with the coin.
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Yes, you have told me about that (and not only me; you generally posted about it) quite a few times. I am happy for you. Alright, I look forward to those articles.
Haha, okay. I just do not know enough about that, right now.
Um... Personally, I hate hard forks; especially when it comes to btc; btc and bch was not necessary, btcgold was not necessary, diamond, silver... all useless. Only because people had been to impatient or wanted to make money. Of course there are necessary hard forks too. However, I do not like them, normally.
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Agreed many forks are just profit schemes for devs I think. Thats where due diligence comes in, ZenCash has some really strong fundamentals I like. Github activity, social activity, using tech that has been proven in industry for years, number of nodes.. all looks really good.
Yeah bitcoin cash was one I think we needed, as many people do not believe in segregated witness as a solution to the block size issue. And pools signaling for BIPs is not a very decentralized governance system... so a fork was inevitable.
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Sounds great.
Yes, I agree with that, I think. I mean, maybe people should have talked/though more about that whole stuff but they just wanted to fork because they were too impatient imo. However, hopefully in the future they think more about their actions.
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gratz, have a few projects im eyeing up myself!
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@crypto3em3
thank you, there is alot of detail to it. But I think I can spin one up quicker with every node I build now. Especially with Sto1cNate's bootstrap method.
Cool, ill keep an eye on your posts for some good projects.
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@solominer Thanks again for the review. If you don't mind updating the link to my guide, I'll keep it updated on my steemit page.
https://steemit.com/zencash/@sto1cnate/zencash-secure-node-abbreviated-guide-bootstrapping-parallel-node-management-backup-and-restore
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@sto1cnate
No problem, I appreciate your document and supporting your guide.
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