Overview
Note: This tutorial contains instructions for Windows, Mac and Linux users. Skip over steps that do not apply to you.
In this tutorial, we show you how to download the Monero wallet and Monero daemon.
The Monero wallet is used to securely store your Monero, and is what you will use to check your Monero balance and send and receive Monero.
The job of the Monero daemon is to communicate with the network to notify you of new transactions.
Warning: If you are booting to a Pendrive or LiveCD, you will not have any hard drive storage available to you, so this tutorial will not work unless you have at least 16GB of RAM available for storage of the blockchain. To clarify, this RAM requirement ONLY
applies to Pendrive or LiveCD installations and not to the majority of people with regularly installed operating systems. If you don't have this much
RAM in your laptop,
this tutorial will show you how to create a Monero wallet on a Live CD booted
machine which can talk to a trusted remote daemon.
To begin, open a terminal window (Mac/Linux) or command prompt (Windows) and type the following text that appears in white. Orange text is instructions, and yellow text is sample output from the commands you will be running.
wget https://downloads.getmonero.org/linux64
tar jxvf linux64
wget https://downloads.getmonero.org/mac64
tar jxvf mac64
https://downloads.getmonero.org/win64
cd monero
./monerod
monerod.exe
./monero-wallet-cli
monero-wallet-cli.exe
Specify wallet file name (e.g., MyWallet). If the wallet doesn't exist, it will be created.
Wallet file name (or Ctrl-C to quit): testwallet
No wallet found with that name. Confirm creation of new wallet named: testwallet
(Y/Yes/N/No): Y
Generating new wallet...
Enter a password for your new wallet: ********
Confirm Password: ********
List of available languages for your wallet's seed:
0 : English
1 : Spanish
2 : German
3 : Italian
4 : Portuguese
5 : Russian
6 : Japanese
Enter the number corresponding to the language of your choice: 0
Generated new wallet: 47CL7FiNtW417VjzWt9Zse8Z8URhaHaA2L9jJq6rrLtDhiYK9PfbCavhhMKws9xEdKHBeGcQtJmPt4uEMivooNztC5UkHLD
View key: 005c98c3db115140289bd0dfad97f910e6eeb5e8e12d02fdd4ab2373fbe9110a
**********************************************************************
Your wallet has been generated!
To start synchronizing with the daemon, use "refresh" command.
Use "help" command to see the list of available commands.
Always use "exit" command when closing monero-wallet-cli to save your
current session's state. Otherwise, you might need to synchronize
your wallet again (your wallet keys are NOT at risk in any case).
PLEASE NOTE: the following 25 words can be used to recover access to your wallet. Please write them down and store them somewhere safe and secure. Please do not store them in your email or on file storage services outside of your immediate control.
locker welders womanly lodge gumball selfish altitude dewdrop
terminal nagged exit acquire hookup ashtray wobbly nineteen
duration duties javelin patio baffles ambush bamboo bite nineteen
**********************************************************************
Starting refresh...
Refresh done, blocks received: 0
Balance: 0.000000000000, unlocked balance: 0.000000000000
Background refresh thread started
[wallet 47CL7F]: address
47CL7FiNtW417VjzWt9Zse8Z8URhaHaA2L9jJq6rrLtDhiYK9PfbCavhhMKws9xEdKHBeGcQtJmPt4uEMivooNztC5UkHLD
Congratulations, you have now created a Monero wallet, and can now
send and receive Monero.
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