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Option 2 fetches the official eCash node, then option 3 creates the wallet and hands you your address. There is nothing else to install.

The node is started with the network switched off, just long enough to create the wallet and hand you an address. Not a single block is downloaded.

There is no 12-word phrase: eCash uses a descriptor wallet, so this folder IS your key. Copy it off this machine. Lose it and your coins are gone, and nobody can recover them for you.

It starts with bc1 — exactly like a Bitcoin address, because eCash keeps the same format. Never give an exchange deposit address: it would be a Bitcoin address, and your ECX would be lost.

To read your balance or spend your coins later, that same node has to be fully synchronised. Creating the wallet before you start mining matters: it will then see every payment as it arrives.

The eCash project publishes no Windows build, so the Windows miner cannot create a wallet, show a balance, or spend anything. It only mines, to an address you already own.

Install WSL2 (Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store), then run the Linux installer inside it: it creates the wallet in seconds, with the network switched off, and hands you your address. Or create it on any Linux machine you have and copy the address across. Either way the wallet folder stays on that machine, and this is what you back up.

It starts with bc1, exactly like a Bitcoin address, because eCash keeps the same format. Never give an exchange deposit address: it would be a Bitcoin address, and your ECX would be lost.

Your coins are paid to that address whatever machine mines them. Mining from Windows costs you nothing here: only reading the balance needs the node, and it lives where you made the wallet.

• checks the build dependencies and installs them with your confirmation, and fetches the official eCash node if you need a wallet
• creates your wallet with no synchronisation at all, or takes the address you already have
• compiles the miner for your own CPU, then starts it, stops it, shows its logs, your balance, and sends your coins

A menu, not a black box: each step is a separate choice you make. Compiling takes 10 to 20 minutes and produces a binary tuned for your own processor, which no generic download can match. Checking your balance or spending your coins requires the node to be fully synchronised; the script says so and refuses to send before that.

Mining from several machines? Give each one a different name, otherwise you cannot tell them apart in your own statistics.

Everything lands in ./ecx-miner. Uninstall with rm -rf ecx-miner — no service, no autostart, a reboot has nothing to undo.

github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt — no Linux binary is published there, which is why the installer compiles it for your own CPU.

• asks for your address, a name for this machine, and how many cores to use
• downloads the miner, checks its checksum, and refuses to go further if it does not match
• writes a start.bat that restarts on its own, then starts mining

If PowerShell refuses to run it, type Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process Bypass first: Windows blocks downloaded scripts by default. New on Windows, so tell us on Discord if anything goes wrong.

Everything lands in .\ecx-miner. Delete the folder to remove it, nothing else is touched.

check it, unzip it, then run this in the same folder:

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This is pooler's cpuminer, rehosted here unmodified. It has no SHA-NI acceleration, so it is slower than the Linux build, and it does not come with a node: create your address elsewhere first, or run the Linux installer inside WSL2 if you want the full setup.