WEBVTT 00:01.360 --> 00:01.900 Okay. 00:01.900 --> 00:09.490 So now that we have the wallet application downloaded, verified and extracted in our persistent directory 00:09.820 --> 00:16.390 in this lecture, I'm going to show you how to run this application and use it to create a Monero wallet. 00:16.840 --> 00:23.350 Now, as I said in the previous lecture, the file that runs the wallet application is this one. 00:23.410 --> 00:25.060 It is a bash file. 00:25.060 --> 00:28.810 Therefore, it needs to be executed from the terminal. 00:29.320 --> 00:36.460 To do this, we can start the terminal in the current working directory by right clicking the directory 00:36.460 --> 00:41.050 that we want to open the terminal in and click on open and terminal. 00:41.820 --> 00:44.360 As you can see, you'll get a terminal window. 00:44.370 --> 00:52.500 But this terminal is already in persistent Monero GUI, which is the directory that we requested the 00:52.500 --> 00:56.340 terminal in, which is again persistent monologue UI. 00:57.000 --> 01:04.200 Now we can use the RLS command and hit enter to see all of the directories and files in the current 01:04.200 --> 01:05.340 working directory. 01:05.340 --> 01:11.700 And as you can see, all of these files and directories are identical to what we see in here. 01:12.330 --> 01:19.170 And what we want to do is we want to execute this file right here, the start UI, S-H, again, we 01:19.170 --> 01:20.510 can see it in here. 01:20.520 --> 01:27.290 And to execute it, all we have to do is type dot forward slash followed by the file name, which is 01:27.300 --> 01:35.550 Takai Dot S-H Hit Enter, give it some time and the wallet graphical interface will start for you. 01:36.270 --> 01:42.330 You can use the language here to change the language or click on Continue if you're happy with English. 01:43.110 --> 01:48.720 Now we're going to have to use the advanced mode in here because we're going to use this wallet on tables 01:48.720 --> 01:55.620 and we'll have to manually configure it to use an onion service to sync with the Monero blockchain. 01:56.160 --> 02:02.340 So I'm going to click on advanced mode and as you can see now, the steps that we're going to go through 02:02.370 --> 02:08.430 are very similar to the steps that we went through when we created the electron Bitcoin wallet. 02:08.730 --> 02:11.820 So the first option will allow us to create a new wallet. 02:11.910 --> 02:16.200 The other options will allow us to restore an existing wallet. 02:16.230 --> 02:23.910 You can restore from a hardware device, from a wallet file or from a seed or a key. 02:24.450 --> 02:31.170 Now, we don't have a wallet yet, so we're going to click on Create a new wallet to create a new wallet. 02:32.050 --> 02:35.500 Now the first thing it's going to ask us for is the wallet name. 02:35.500 --> 02:37.840 And I'm going to call this John Wake Wallet. 02:38.800 --> 02:41.710 Next, you'll have to set the wallet location. 02:42.100 --> 02:48.040 Keep in mind, on tails, everything gets deleted every time you restart the computer. 02:48.400 --> 02:54.460 Therefore, if you keep this to the default location, your wallet will be deleted once you restart 02:54.460 --> 02:58.390 tails and you'll have to restore it using the seed in here. 02:59.200 --> 03:04.270 If you don't want this to happen, if you want to always be able to access the wallet from your Thales 03:04.270 --> 03:11.710 installation, click on Browse and change the location to somewhere within the persistent directory. 03:11.740 --> 03:17.500 Now, as we know, everything within the persistent will not be deleted when the computer restarts, 03:17.500 --> 03:23.110 and therefore you'll always be able to access the wallet from within your current installation. 03:23.860 --> 03:27.310 So you'd want to navigate to the persistent directory. 03:27.310 --> 03:31.900 And as you can see, we already have a directory called Monero UI. 03:31.930 --> 03:36.910 This is the directory that contains the wallet UI that we're using right now. 03:36.910 --> 03:41.140 So it will make sense to place our wallet inside it in here. 03:41.140 --> 03:47.320 So I'm going to click on this icon in here to create a new directory, and I'm going to call this directory 03:47.350 --> 03:55.600 wallets and I'm going to click on Choose to store my wallet inside this directory so my wallet is going 03:55.600 --> 03:56.950 to be stored in home. 03:56.950 --> 03:57.790 Amnesia. 03:57.790 --> 04:01.060 Persistent Monero UI wallets. 04:01.870 --> 04:07.750 And as you can see, we have the directory here created because we created it within this working directory. 04:08.500 --> 04:15.910 Now it's also a good idea to copy the seed, which you can use to restore the wallet in case the file 04:15.910 --> 04:16.810 got deleted. 04:16.810 --> 04:22.810 Or if you wanted to use the wallet from a completely different computer, you can restore your wallet 04:22.810 --> 04:29.980 using this seed and you can use this number in here as the block number when restoring your wallet and 04:29.980 --> 04:33.760 using this number will help you restore the wallet much quicker. 04:34.450 --> 04:36.970 Once it's done with everything, click on next. 04:37.000 --> 04:40.300 Now it's going to ask us to set a password for the wallet. 04:43.210 --> 04:49.090 It's going to ask you for the diamond settings so you can keep this to the default, which will start 04:49.090 --> 04:52.610 a node automatically in the background on your system. 04:52.630 --> 04:57.740 This option will download the whole Monero blockchain on your computer. 04:57.760 --> 05:05.050 This is the most private way of using Monero, but keep in mind, the size of the blockchain is more 05:05.050 --> 05:07.810 than 25 gigabytes, so you'll have to wait. 05:07.810 --> 05:10.190 So first of all, you need to have enough storage. 05:10.210 --> 05:14.110 Second, you'll need to wait for all of this data to be downloaded. 05:14.110 --> 05:19.420 Keep in mind the download speed is reduced when you're using tails because everything is going through 05:19.420 --> 05:20.500 the Tor network. 05:20.590 --> 05:27.010 Third, this is a resource hungry process, so you need a powerful enough computer to do that. 05:28.410 --> 05:32.550 Alternatively, you can click on connect to a remote node. 05:32.580 --> 05:38.460 With this option, we're going to use a remote node to sync with the Monero blockchain. 05:38.490 --> 05:44.400 This means that we'll be able to instantly use the blockchain, will be instantly able to send and receive 05:44.400 --> 05:48.300 funds, and we won't need to download the whole blockchain. 05:48.720 --> 05:53.810 So in order to use this option, we need a remote server that will sync with. 05:54.240 --> 06:00.060 And I'm going to include links in the resources to a website where you can get online services that 06:00.060 --> 06:02.280 can be used as nodes. 06:02.850 --> 06:07.290 All you'll have to do is literally copy the server in here. 06:08.190 --> 06:15.990 And paste it in the server location and set the port to the port that we have in here, which is 18099. 06:18.320 --> 06:19.400 Hit next. 06:19.760 --> 06:23.870 It's going to show you a review of all the settings that you selected. 06:23.900 --> 06:25.760 We're going to say, yes, that's fine. 06:25.790 --> 06:27.930 Open the wallet for me, please. 06:27.950 --> 06:32.000 And as you can see, this will show us the interface of the wallet. 06:32.030 --> 06:37.630 Now, as you can see, it's telling us that we are disconnected, but now it's trying to connect. 06:37.640 --> 06:41.000 It's trying to sync with the remote node that we gave it. 06:41.000 --> 06:46.370 And you'll see that this will be very, very quick, unlike the other option, where you start the node 06:46.370 --> 06:51.590 locally in which you'll have to wait for the whole blockchain to be downloaded, which, like I said, 06:51.590 --> 06:53.840 is over 25 gigabytes. 06:54.500 --> 06:55.310 And perfect. 06:55.310 --> 06:57.740 As you can see, the wallet is synchronized. 06:57.740 --> 06:59.480 The demand is synchronized. 06:59.570 --> 07:03.950 If we click on the account in here, we'll be able to access our account page. 07:03.950 --> 07:09.640 And as you can see, we have zero funds because we literally just created the wallet and that's it. 07:09.650 --> 07:12.920 Right now we have our Monero wallet created. 07:13.250 --> 07:16.220 Using the wallet in here is very similar to Electrum. 07:16.220 --> 07:20.190 As you can see, we have the accounts page which shows a summary of the account. 07:20.210 --> 07:26.330 We can use the same to send funds receive to get the receive address and receive funds and transactions 07:26.330 --> 07:28.160 to see our transactions. 07:28.550 --> 07:29.980 Don't worry about all of this. 07:29.990 --> 07:34.700 We will use this more in the next lectures and you'll get very comfortable with it.