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 asElectronCash-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