I am very excited to learn more about Zcash, but I am a new member so forgive me if this question is not in the correct category. I just finished updating to the latest version of winzec with the sapling upgrade. I was browsing around the internet and found the Zchain network explorer. There are blue dots scattered all over the globe representing what I am assuming are Zcash nodes? If so, how can I start my own node or am I already running a node through the winzec application on my pc? I was just wondering because it would be really neat to add my own blue little dot to the network
If you want your own âlittle blue dotâ you have to make your node publicly accessible - which means setting up âport forwardingâ on your router.
I think the docs are a bit lacking in this regard, but you can follow the guides for BTC - look at the âNetwork Configurationâ section on the following page -
