Overview
If you have an SSD drive, there is a way to speed up the initial synchronization of your daemon with the network. This is
achieved by downloading a copy of the raw blockchain and importing it. The example below shows the procedure when creating
a new wallet, but you can also use the first part of this procedure when preparing to
restore an existing wallet from your seed.
IMPORTANT: It is critical that you only download a trusted version of the raw blockchain from getmonero.org. Do not trust downloads
from other sources.
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.
https://downloads.getmonero.org/linux64
tar jxvf linux64
wget https://downloads.getmonero.org/mac64
tar jxvf mac64
wget https://downloads.getmonero.org/blockchain.raw
./monero-blockchain-import --verify 0 --input-file ./blockchain.raw
rm -rf ./blockchain.raw
https://downloads.getmonero.org/win64
https://downloads.getmonero.org/blockchain.raw
cd monero
monero-blockchain-import.exe --verify 0 --input-file ./blockchain.raw
del blockchain.raw
./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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