Cactus is a modern community-centric green cryptocurrency based on a proof-of-space-and-time consensus algorithm. It is a community-supported fork of the Chia Network codebase.
For more information, see our website and downloads at www.Cactus-Network.net.
You can learn more in the Cactus Wiki: Quick Start Guide
Please check out the Cactus Discord Channel: (https://discord.gg/qfHBqZnXTj).
Full Node List Here: Full Node IP's
Introducer Port: 11444
Download the Cactus Blockchain Windows installer or the Windows Zip
As the Chia code signing certificate is new you will likely have to ask to keep the download and when you run the installer, you will have to choose "More Info" and "Run Anyway" to be able to run the installer. There is no need to use the command line. Some Windows anti-virus applications are seeing the download as a false positive. You can see the entire source code and build method here so we think it's safe for you to ask those tools to ignore it. Running the installer while plotting on a previous version will stop your plotting process, so be careful.
You can learn more through the Chia Quick Start Guide: Quick Start Guide
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
# Install Git
sudo apt install git -y
# Checkout the source and install
git clone https://github.com/Cactus-Network/cactus-blockchain.git -b latest --recurse-submodules
cd cactus-blockchain sh install.sh
. ./activate cactus init
#add your plot directories the /.cactus/main/config/config.yaml
cactus start famer
#add your harvesters - https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/Farming-on-many-machines
# The GUI requires you have Ubuntu Desktop or a similar windowing system installed.
# You can not install and run the GUI as root
cd /home/'yourusername'/cactus-blockchain/
. ./activate sh install-gui.sh
cd chia-blockchain-gui npm run electron &
cd cactus-blockchain
. ./activate
cactus stop -d all
deactivate
git fetch
git checkout main
git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD --recurse-submodules
sh install.sh
. ./activate
cactus init
cactus start farmer
##GUI Update (Updating from 1.2.1 to 1.2.11)
#1.2.1 did not have a GUI submodule. 1.2.11 does. Therefore we remove 1.2.1 GUI directory, and initialize the new GUI submodule
cd ~/cactus-blockchain
rm -rf cactus-blockchain-gui/
git submodule init
git submodule update
git fetch
git checkout main
sh install-gui.sh
npm run electron &
*Note, if you would like to run the Timelord to support the Cactus ecosystem, run 'sh install-timelord.sh', then cactus start timelord. If you receive errors during the installation process, your system is missing dependencies. In this case, thank you for trying :)