Okay, here’s the step-by-step instructions for how to put your ZEC into Ywallet, and shield it into the Orchard pool, so that you’ll later be able to cast your Shielded Petition. Remember, the deadline to register your coins is about 17 hours from now! Block 2,574,200, which is 5:00pm UTC Saturday, July 13.
Once you’ve registered your coins, and the registration deadline has passed, only then can you take the next step which is to cast your petition. I’ll post step-by-step instructions on that later.
Okay:
Step 1: Install Ywallet. Go to your friendly neighborhood App Store, and search for Ywallet!
Step 2: Launch it and deal with backing up the seed words and then you should see something like this:
See that QR code and that little “copy me” button that I circled in red? Those are how you access your Zcash address (the one shown here is a Unified Address). Send some ZEC to that address from another wallet, or an exchange or whatever.
Side Quest: what If, when you give that address to the wallet or exchange or whatever, you get some kind of error message like “Error: invalid – that is not a valid Zcash address”? Well, that means that the wallet or exchange that you’re using hasn’t upgraded to parse the current standard – Unified Addresses – in order to make things simpler and easier for their users. Open your TODO list and add a note for after the Shielded Petition to politely request that they add Unified Address support:
Then go back to your Ywallet, and swipe right on the address a few times until you see this:
That’s your transparent address. Go ahead and send ZEC to that.
Step 3: See how much ZEC you have in each of the three pools.
Ywallet has a user interface to see which pools your ZEC is in. Touch the “three dots/More” in the lower right-hand corner:
Then choose “Pools”:
You should see something like this:
First, just look at the buttons named “Transparent”, “Sapling”, and “Orchard” under the label “From Pool”. When you touch each of those buttons, it shows how much ZEC you have in that pool. I currently have 0.361 ZEC in Transparent:
0.000 ZEC in Sapling:
And 100.000 ZEC in Orchard:
Step 4: Move all your ZEC to the Orchard pool.
Only ZEC which is in the Orchard pool at the moment of the registration cutoff is eligible to cast your petition with.
I have 0.361 ZEC in the Transparent pool. The way to move it is to touch the Transparent Pool in the “From Pool” bar and touch the Orchard pool in the “To Pool” bar, like this:
Now I want to fill in the amount of ZEC to move and click the check-mark in the upper-right-hand corner, like this:
And then it will show this “Transaction Plan” and you click the arrow in the upper-right-hand corner:
(By the way, don’t worry about that big orange “PRIVACY: LOW” warning. That probably doesn’t apply to you here.)
Okay, once you’ve done that then you need to give it a minute or three for the transaction to wend its way through the aether, and then eventually when you view the pools it will look like this:
That’s it! You’ve successfully moved your ZEC into the Orchard shielded pool in Ywallet! Now leave it there until the registration deadline passes (which was 17 hours from when I started writing this tutorial, but this took an hour so it is 16 hours from now). 