Lately there have been a lot of questions from people who have had trouble getting started with Peercoin on their Macs. There’s a lot of information out there, scattered about, if you have the time to track it all down and figure out which parts are good and which aren’t, but to (hopefully) make it easier for anyone new to Peercoin (and for those who may not be new), I’ve put together a tutorial to get you started.
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=getting_started_with_peercoin_on_mac_os_x
The tutorial includes all of the steps, with screenshots, to get you through:
[ul][li]Locating and downloading the Peercoin wallet client[/li]
[li]Installing the Peercoin wallet on your Mac[/li]
[li]Running the Peercoin wallet for the first time[/li]
[li]Synchronizing with the Peercoin Network[/li]
[li]Securing Your Peercoin wallet[/li]
[li]Understanding what your wallet can do[/li][/ul]
It also includes a link to the Mac Proof-of-stake minting tutorial that I wrote here on PeercoinTalk.org.
This is the first pass at this, and I expect to provide updates to the page if anything changes or if people request clarifications to any of the sections.
Moving forward, I’m going to start working on a series of advanced topic pages that discuss other aspects of the OS X Peercoin client, such as:
[ul][li]Interacting with the Peercoin daemon, [font=courier]ppcoind[/font] from the command line[/li]
[li]Advanced configurations and settings with [font=courier]ppcoin.conf[/font][/li]
[li]Backing up your Peercoin wallet on a regular basis[/li]
[li]Using paper wallets and importing privkeys into your Peercoin wallet[/li][/ul]
If anyone has suggestions for other topics that they would like to see covered, please let me know in this thread, and I’ll do my best to get it included (or, in some cases, find someone who knows more than I do about the topic to write a companion page).
Should you find any errors or areas that are not clear in the tutorial, feel free to let me know here and I’ll get those fixes included.
Thank you, and happy Peercoin-ing!
