Downloading and Verifying Electron Cash

IMPORTANT: it is vital that you only use information and downloads from https://electroncash.org

Android

Install the app from the PlayStore.

The PlayStore has verification of downloads built into the system, no verification is needed.

Linux

  • retrieve Jonald’s public key from his repo. You only need to do this once but it is recommended to insure that you are installing an original version of electron cash.
    • wget "https://github.com/fyookball/keys-n-hashes/raw/master/pubkeys/jonaldkey2.txt"
    • gpg --import jonaldkey2.txt
  • Download the latest version from https://electroncash.org. You need the tar.gz file, such as ElectronCash-3.1.2.tar.gz
  • Download the correct signature and checksum files from https://github.com/fyookball/keys-n-hashes/tree/master/sigs-and-sums
  • Verify the download
    • sha256sum -c SHA256.ElectronCash-3.1.2.tar.gz.txt
    • gpg --verify ElectronCash-3.1.2.tar.gz.sig