Mine it on the computer you already own.
Zecnero is a Zcash fork built on Zebra. Its proof of work is built so an ordinary desktop CPU is competitive hardware, and shielded transactions come with it. It has not launched: the node, the miner and the wallets are still being built.
Everyone starts at block zero.
Nobody gets a quiet head start. Every block below the first halving pays 3% of its subsidy to a published founder script — 314,999.8125 ZMR in total, 1.5% of the 20,999,993.5652 ZMR ever issued. That stream is the only allocation: no premine, no dev fund, and no height reserved for any miner. After launch the founder mines in the open, on the same rules as you.
Your CPU counts here.
Zecnero runs RandomX, which is built so the most efficient hardware for it converges on an ordinary processor. Dedicated RandomX hardware sold so far has shown little efficiency advantage over a high-end desktop chip. Renting hashpower is still possible, and a miner with most of the hashrate can censor and reverse recent blocks — so nodes refuse to reorganise more than 20 blocks, about 25 minutes of chain.
Full mining guide →# no release yet. this is the procedure, not a working command. # 1. install the node $ curl -fsSL https://get.zecnero.org/install.sh | sh # 2. put your address in zecnerod.toml miner_address = "N1…" # 3. run it $ zecnerod start
21 million. Then it stops.
Each block pays 6.25 ZMR, and that halves every 1,680,000 blocks, same idea as Bitcoin and Zcash. There is no tail emission waiting at the end. Issuance stops after 30 halvings at 20,999,993.5652 ZMR, and stays there.
Zcash privacy came along for the fork.
Zecnero is built from Zebra, the Rust node the Zcash Foundation maintains. Shielded addresses and zero-knowledge proofs carry over, so sending ZMR privately works the way Zcash users already know.
Mine it from block one.
Every block from the first one is mined in public, by whoever is running a node. The code, the specification and the open issues are all on GitHub.