pktd is the primary full node PKT Cash implementation, written in Go.
The PKT Cash project is currently under active development and considered to be beta quality software.
In particular, the development branch of pktd is highly experimental,
and should generally not be used in a production environment or on the
PKT Cash mainnet.
pktd is the primary mainnet node software for the PKT blockchain.
It is known to correctly download, validate, and serve the chain,
using rules for block acceptance based on Bitcoin Core, with the
addition of PacketCrypt Proofs.
It relays newly mined blocks, and individual transactions that have not yet made it into a block, as well as maintaining a transaction pool. All individual transactions admitted to the pool follow rules defined by the network operators, which include strict checks to filter transactions based on miner requirements ("standard" vs "non-standard" transactions).
Unlike other similar software, pktd does NOT directly include wallet
functionality - this was an intentional design decision. You will not be
able to make or receive payments with pktd directly.
Example wallet functionality is provided in the included, separate, pktwallet package.
- Google Go (Golang) version 1.14 or higher.
- A somewhat recent release of Git.
- The GitHub integrated GitHub issue tracker is used for this project.
Using git, clone the project from the repository:
git clone https://github.com/pkt-cash/pktd
Use the ./do shell script to build pktd, pktwallet, and pktctl.
NOTE: It is highly recommended to use only the toolchain Google distributes at the official Go homepage. Go toolchains provided by Linux distributions often use different defaults or apply non-standard patches to the official sources, usually to meet distribution-specific requirements (for example, Red Hat backports, security fixes, and provides a different default linker configuration vs. the upstream Google Go package.)
Support can only be provided for binaries compiled from unmodified sources, using the official (upstream) Google Golang toolchain. We unfortunately are unable to test and support every distribution specific combination.
The official Google Golang installer for Linux is always available for download here.
The documentation for pktd is work-in-progress, and available in the docs folder.
pktd is licensed under the Copyfree ISC License.