mrosset/zeus

Zeus. The easiest way to install and operate a Bitcoin full node.

Zeus

Is a unofficial installer for Bitcoin. Using Zeus you can download, install and have a running Bitcoin full node or wallet in just minutes.

Status

Though Zeus works at this time. It’s still early in development and is considered in alpha state. Any current releases are for developer consideration only and not for production use.

Supported CPU and Operating Systems

Zeus should work on any architect and operating system supported by Go and Bitcoin.

Currently supported CPUs and OSs

Linux

• x86_64 (amd64)
• aarch64 (arm64)
• ppc64le

More targets should be supported soon. If you have a target that you would like supported. Please create an Issue

Building from Source

Dependencies

The only requirement for building from source is a working Go distribution.

Installing Zeus

There are no binary releases yet. But you can quickly install with Go using.

go install github.com/mrosset/zeus

To build from source tree you can use.

git clone https://github.com/mrosset/zeus
cd zeus
go install

Using Zeus

To install Bitcoin to it’s default location of $HOME/zeus .

zeus install bitcoin

This will download and verify the Bitcoin binaries from Bitcoin Core Downloads

If you would like to install bitcoin to another location. Use the –prefix flag

zeus --prefix=/opt/zeus install

This will download and verify the Lighting Network Daemon binaries from Lightning Releases

Experimental

To install Bitcoin Core and Lighting Network Node

zeus install all

License

Zeus is published under the GNU GPLv3 license or any later version.

Zeus is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Zeus is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Org mode. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.