Resistance 2.1.0-4

What is Resistance?

Resistance Core is a fork of Zcash. Based on Bitcoin's code, it intends to offer a far higher standard of privacy through a sophisticated zero-knowledge proving scheme that preserves confidentiality of transaction metadata. Some of the differences of Resistance Core from Zcash are our use of a CPU-optimized Proof-of-Work scheme (yespower), shorter block interval (1 minute), and changes for integration with other Resistance components.

This software is the Resistance client. It downloads and stores the entire history of Resistance transactions; depending on the speed of your computer and network connection, the synchronization process can take a long while.

Security Warnings

See important security warnings on Zcash's Security Information page.

Resistance is experimental and a work in progress. Use it at your own risk.

Building

Instructions to compile this yourself:

Linux

Dependencies (example commands are for Debian or Ubuntu, run them as root):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential automake libtool pkg-config curl wget

Compile (do not run as root)

./resutil/build.sh --disable-tests

Then you need to get the Resistance params using the following script:

./resutil/fetch-params.sh

You must create a configuration file. You can create an empty configuration by running:

mkdir ~/.resistance
touch ~/.resistance/resistance.conf

To start the blockchain daemon run:

./src/resistanced

Note: You may need to wait up to 20 seconds for the daemon to start before it is fully functional.

macOS

Prerequisite:

• Homebrew: https://brew.sh/
• XCode Command Line Tools (make sure these are up to date): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12 and http://railsapps.github.io/xcode-command-line-tools.html

Dependencies:

brew update
brew upgrade
brew install autoconf autogen automake binutils protobuf coreutils wget curl

Build:

./resutil/build.sh --disable-tests

Configuration:

touch ~/Library/Application\ Support/Resistance/resistance.conf
./resutil/fetch-params.sh

Run Daemon

./src/resistanced

Windows

Note: This must be cross-compiled from a Linux box. In this example, we will use Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver).

Upgrade your system:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python python-zmq zlib1g-dev wget curl bsdmainutils automake
sudo apt-get install mingw-w64
git clone git@github.com:ResistancePlatform/resistance-core.git
cd resistance-core

Then run the following commands (select the option containing POSIX when prompted):

sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc
sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++

Build the executable:

./resutil/build.sh --disable-tests
HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 ./resutil/build.sh --disable-tests
strip src/resistanced.exe src/resistance-cli.exe src/resistance-tx.exe

Configuration:

TODO

Run Daemon

./src/resistanced

Build Troubleshooting

1. "This is taking forever to build.": You can speed up building for Linux and maybe for macOS by using ./resutil/build.sh --disable-tests -j2. Depending on your system, you can increase the value of -j, i.e. -j8. On a fast machine with enough RAM and a fast network (as the build downloads some of its dependencies), build using -j8 completes in under 10 minutes. Builds without a -j option may take 40 minutes or more, but need a lot less RAM. Unfortunately, the -j option is known to cause Windows builds to fail, so you'll have to avoid it with those.
2. "I used the -j option and my build failed.": This is often caused by running out of RAM. To avoid that, don't set the -j value to more than half the number of GB of RAM you have in the system (or VM) - e.g., to use -j8 safely we recommend having 16 GB RAM or more (in the VM, if applicable).
3. "I make one small change to the source, and I have to rebuild everything?!": Nope! After you have built the first time, you can rebuild quickly by running make or make -j8 (faster) in this repo's src directory.
4. "I want to set an rpc password": You can do this by adding the following to the resistance.conf file:

rpcuser=CHANGEME
rpcpassword=CHANGEME

Note: If you run into build problems, and then find a solution please don't keep the solution to yourself. It helps everyone if you add your solution to this troubleshooting section.

CLI Client

Then you can interact with the daemon locally using the cli tool:

./src/resistance-cli getinfo
./src/resistance-cli getblockchaininfo

License

For license information see the file COPYING.

Code of Conduct

Participation in the Resistance project is subject to a Code of Conduct.