# Tutorial - Create your own zcash 2.0 fork in couple minutes (or hours first timers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Education\ **Created:** [April 21, 2019, 6:21am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/tutorial-create-your-own-zcash-2-0-fork-in-couple-minutes-or-hours-first-timers/33264 "2019-04-21T06:21:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bitzec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/bitzec/32/11713_2.png) [@Bitzec](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Bitzec)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 6:21am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/tutorial-create-your-own-zcash-2-0-fork-in-couple-minutes-or-hours-first-timers/33264/1 "2019-04-21T06:21:55Z")
1. Create Github account and fork [GitHub - bitzec/bitzec: BITZEC [BZC] - The Binary digit Zero-knowledge Electronic Currency , Zcash 2.0 [zec] Sapling fork , 2.5minute blocktime ,7bn max supply, Blockreward decreas every month- on zcashs sapling MPC 2 setup - chat: https://discord.gg/VeBJW3H ANN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5045890.0](https://github.com/bitzec/bitzec) Change foldername to your coins name Get Ubuntu ( or ubuntu on vmware ) 1. Open teminal and download Bitzec BZC ( zcash 2.4 fork ) git clone [GitHub - bitzec/bitzec: BITZEC [BZC] - The Binary digit Zero-knowledge Electronic Currency , Zcash 2.0 [zec] Sapling fork , 2.5minute blocktime ,7bn max supply, Blockreward decreas every month- on zcashs sapling MPC 2 setup - chat: https://discord.gg/VeBJW3H ANN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5045890.0](https://github.com/bitzec/bitzec.git) (or your github forked bitzec repo) 2. Download latest zcash 2.4 release : wget [https://github.com/zcash/zcash/archive/v2.0.4.zip](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/archive/v2.0.4.zip) 3. Unzip and compare with Bitzec folder on Meld software [https://meldmerge.org/](https://meldmerge.org/) : you will see all diffrences you want to change like : Change coin name , ticker , founders reward addresses (it has to be an t3 address ) %, maxsupply, blockreward decreas plan, rpcports and so on. 4. Get Equihash Solver : git clone [GitHub - tromp/equihash: multi-parameter Equihash proof-of-work multi-threaded C solvers](https://github.com/tromp/equihash) cd equihash make all 5. Get GenesisZ : git clone --recursive [GitHub - sebastianst/GenesisZ: Mine the Genesis Block for your Zcashy altcoin](https://github.com/sebastianst/GenesisZ) python3 -m venv GenesisZ cd GenesisZ source bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt (cheeck for full instructions [GitHub - sebastianst/GenesisZ: Mine the Genesis Block for your Zcashy altcoin](https://github.com/sebastianst/GenesisZ) ) 1. compile your version with the first seed node address you host on vps ( google cloud for example ) or server (2nd laptop pc) Compile Bitzec example : Install dependencies: sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g+±multilib autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python python-zmq zlib1g-dev wget curl bsdmainutils automake Clone Bitzec Repository : git clone [GitHub - bitzec/bitzec: BITZEC [BZC] - The Binary digit Zero-knowledge Electronic Currency , Zcash 2.0 [zec] Sapling fork , 2.5minute blocktime ,7bn max supply, Blockreward decreas every month- on zcashs sapling MPC 2 setup - chat: https://discord.gg/VeBJW3H ANN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5045890.0](https://github.com/bitzec/bitzec.git) Build it : cd bitzec/ ./zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc) or fastway ./zcutil/build.sh --disable-tests -j$(nproc) fetch key (zcash sapling params): ./zcutil/fetch-params.sh mkdir -p ~/.bitzec echo ‘gen=1’ \>\> ~/.bitzec/bitzec.conf echo “genproclimit=1” \>\> ~/.bitzec/bitzec.conf echo ‘equihashsolver=tromp’ \>\> ~/.bitzec/bitzec.conf Run It : ./src/bitzecd Software you need 1. Ubuntu or Ubuntu on vmware 2. Meld: [https://meldmerge.org/](https://meldmerge.org/) free compare software 3. Account on [github.com](http://github.com) free 4. Mine the Genesis Block for your Zcashy altcoin: [GitHub - sebastianst/GenesisZ: Mine the Genesis Block for your Zcashy altcoin](https://github.com/sebastianst/GenesisZ) (use -v for verbose somewhere when you create your genesisblock to see the data you need) 5. Equihash Solver [GitHub - tromp/equihash: multi-parameter Equihash proof-of-work multi-threaded C solvers](https://github.com/tromp/equihash) 6. good to have software : atom editor [https://atom.io/](https://atom.io/) github desktop : [https://desktop.github.com/](https://desktop.github.com/) Orginal Thread [Tutorial - Create your zcash 2.0 fork in couple minutes (or hours first timers)](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5134208.msg50695841#msg50695841) will update it soon hopefully with setting up insight explorer have fun and good luck ---
**Author:** ![boxalex](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/boxalex/32/14872_2.png) [@boxalex](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/boxalex)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 6:47am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/tutorial-create-your-own-zcash-2-0-fork-in-couple-minutes-or-hours-first-timers/33264/2 "2019-04-21T06:47:48Z")
Fine, you have than a fork of zcash 2.0 and than …??? Wallets? Upgrades? Exchanges? Further custom changes and impletations? or in other words, what to do with this fork? ---
**Author:** ![Bitzec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/bitzec/32/11713_2.png) [@Bitzec](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Bitzec)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/tutorial-create-your-own-zcash-2-0-fork-in-couple-minutes-or-hours-first-timers/33264/3 "2019-04-21T07:26:45Z")
Guess for that we would need an extra tutorial \* what to do with my own forked zcash coin \* or something like that . . In between also an usefull tutorial on \* build my own crypto exchange and not get hacked twice a day \* But for wallet, the wallet is included in the full node fork actualy. Insight explorer is also easy to run. And you cant do realy much with it , besides send numbers or letters around for a low fee. Getting miners to mine your coin is the real tricky part , for that tutorial an ico could be useful