<pclass="block">What is Hush? Hush is Free Software (like Open Source, but better), which allows you to Speak And Transact Freely. That is the core mission of the software and global community of cypherpunks that make the Hush software and peer-to-peer network possible.</p>
<pclass="block">Where can I get Hush? The only official place to get Hush source code and binaries is git.hush.is, which is the Hush Gitea instance, which replaces Github.</p>
<pclass="block">What Operating Systems Does Hush Work On? We support Debian/Ubuntu and Arch. We support IoT devices such as ARMv8 (Raspberry Pi-like devices).</p>
<pclass="block">How can I install Hush? It's easy, just paste the command below for SD lite wallet. You can expect error while compiling from source, please note that SDL is written in C++ 14, it also depends on Qt5 and Rust v1.41 minimum is required, and potentially something else.</p>
<pre>git clone https://git.hush.is/hush/SilentDragonLite.git && cd SilentDragonLite && ./build.sh && ./SilentDragonLite</pre>
<pclass="block">Why is my balance different than the explorer? This can happen for a few reasons. Your node may be out of sync, and still finding new blocks which contain payments to your address. You may not have imported all the private keys you thought you did. Use the validation function to check if an address is in your current wallet.</p>
<pclass="block">If your wallet is rescanning, it will show the balance as of the block height it is processing. You will see the balance "jump" higher when it finds a new transaction which pays one of your addresses. Your full balance will be shown when you have processed the latest block and regain "syncedness".</p>
<pclass="block">What does a Hush address look like? We have two main types of addresses, transparent and shielded. Transparent addresses start with R and shielded addresses start with zs1.</p>
<pclass="block">Originally HUSH addresses looked the same as Zcash addresses, so either t1... or z.. . When Hush changed our upstream from ZEC to KMD, that changed to be R... and zs1..., which is the prefix for Sapling Shielded Addresses.</p>
<pclass="block">If your address starts with zc instead of zs1, it is a Sprout address and it's not valid on the current HUSH mainnet.</p>
<pclass="block">For the above reasons, KMD, VRSC and SAFE addresses are all compatible, with the exact same public key generating the same exact address on KMD, VRSC, SAFE and HUSH and all the side chains (smart chains) of these respective platforms. If you own a taddr or zaddr on any one of these blockchains, you own the exact same address on all the blockchains.</p>
<pclass="block">How can I run a SilentDragonLite backend? You will need a VPS with at least 2 vCPUs and 4GB of RAM to compile software: https://git.hush.is/jahway603/hush-docs/src/branch/master/hush-lite-server.md</p>
<details><summary>What is Hush?</summary>Hush is Free Software (like Open Source, but better), which allows you to Speak And Transact Freely. That is the core mission of the software and global community of cypherpunks that make the Hush software and peer-to-peer network possible.</details>
<details><summary>Where can I get Hush?</summary>The only official place to get Hush source code and binaries is git.hush.is, which is the Hush Gitea instance, which replaces Github.</details>
<details><summary>What Operating Systems Does Hush Work On?</summary>We support Debian/Ubuntu, Arch and ARM based devices such as Raspberry Pi.</details>
<details><summary>How can I install Hush?</summary>sudo apt install git qt5-default build-essential libqt5websockets5-dev -y && curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.3 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y && exit and then git clone https://git.hush.is/hush/SilentDragonLite.git && cd SilentDragonLite/ && ./build.sh && ./SilentDragonLite</details>
<details><summary>Why is my balance different than the explorer?</summary>This can happen for a few reasons. Your node may be out of sync, and still finding new blocks which contain payments to your address. You may not have imported all the private keys you thought you did. Use the validation function to check if an address is in your current wallet.<br><br>If your wallet is rescanning, it will show the balance as of the block height it is processing. You will see the balance "jump" higher when it finds a new transaction which pays one of your addresses. Your full balance will be shown when you have processed the latest block and regain "syncedness".</details>
<details><summary>What does a Hush address look like?</summary>We have no transparent addresses (public such as Bitcoin addresses), but shielded only that starts with zs1 which is the prefix for Sapling Shielded Addresses.<br><br>If your address starts with zc instead of zs1, it is a Sprout address and it's not valid on the current HUSH mainnet.<br><br>For the above reasons, KMD, VRSC and SAFE addresses are all compatible, with the exact same public key generating the same exact address on KMD, VRSC, SAFE and HUSH and all the side chains (smart chains) of these respective platforms. If you own a taddr or zaddr on any one of these blockchains, you own the exact same address on all the blockchains.</details>
<details><summary>How can I run a SilentDragonLite backend?</summary>You will need a VPS with at least 2 vCPUs and 4GB of RAM to compile software: https://git.hush.is/jahway603/hush-docs/src/branch/master/hush-lite-server.md</details>
<pclass="block">HushChat has no phone numbers, centralized web servers, it is not a US-based or any kind of company/non-profit/organization, it has no Javascript/Electron in our desktop full or lite wallets, while it does have Plausible Deniability, multiple layers of encryption, in-flight and at-rest, compatibility with Tor (i2p support is in progress), emoji support.</p>
<pclass="block">What is HushChat Protocol? HushChat is a protocol which is a particular use case of HushList protocol and which sits on top of Hush Protocol, an improved Zcash Protocol. It is inspired by the design of Signal Protocol and uses many of the same cryptography and ideas, but does not actually use any code from Signal. A HushChat protocol whitepaper is in progress.</p>
<pclass="block">Here's how to use HushChat: git.hush.is/hush/hushchat/src/branch/master/guide.md</p>
<pclass="block">Every HushChat is additionally encrypted with a user passphrase, independent of wallet.dat private keys. This means if your device is seized/liberated/stolen and your wallet.dat inserted in ChainAnalysis or similar blockchain analysis platform, your chats are encrypted blobs of useless information.</p>
<pclass="block">HushChats cannot be truncated, removed, reordered, duplicated or modified without being detected. There are very strong encryption/decryption guarantees provided by libsodium secretstreams: https://doc.libsodium.org/secret-key_cryptography/secretstream</p>
<pclass="block">HushDEX has no KYC, no IP address limiting, Alice's or Bob's blockchain address never appears in public data. Since you can't see the address of any transaction, you cannot infer if the same address appears as sender or receiver in many transactions. The amount of the transaction, how much XMR/ZEC and HUSH, is unknown, the exchange rate of the transaction never appears on the blockchain.</p>
<pclass="block">Either you will have Monero (XMR) and want to buy HUSH, or you have HUSH and want to buy XMR. We do not currently have plans to support fiat, and we will not initially support BTC, but may add it later. We suggest Bisq which supports buying BTC with fiat and buying XMR with BTC. You can also mine XMR with most modern CPUs effectively, which is another way to acquire XMR to buy HUSH.</p>
<pclass="block">Why don't you support BTC? We have deep respect for Satoshi and the deep roots we trace from Hush back to their original vision. Also, Bitcoin is a metadata nightmare. By making XMR our first pair, we start out with Extreme Privacy, making life very hard for companies like ChainAnalysis and Ciphertrace. If we supported BTC or ZEC (which we initially were focusing on), we would have metadata problems from all the KYC infecting BTC taddrs and even Zcash zaddrs. Making HUSH/XMR the first pair avoids all these metadata problems.</p>
<pclass="block">Why would anybody want this? The Hush community agrees with the United Nations, that privacy is a basic human right. We believe that people "in the know" will want liquidity between privacy coins, and currently they are trapped on metadata-scraping centralized exchanges. For traders, there is no direct way to take profits from HUSH into another privacy coin. We are fixing that. And for miners, there is no good way to take profits without losing privacy. That is being fixed as well.</p>
<pclass="block">Who makes this work and who benefits? The Hush Decentralized Autonomous Organization has precipitated into existence to make Hush projects like this and HushDEX self-sustaining and censorship-resistant, just like our code.</p>
<pclass="block">Hush believes in more cryptocoins in general and more privacy coins in particular, is a good thing, needed to fully displace corrupt institutions such as WU and VISA, that have preyed on the poor for decades. Even so, HUSH believes we are the very best privacy coin based on Zero-Knowledge Math and we compete directly with Monero, the oldest and most-used privacy coin currently.</p>
<pclass="block">Zero-Knowledge Math Instead of Obfuscation. Let's say Alice makes an XMR transaction to Bob. They both have relatively good privacy, at first. Alice has very good operational security (opsec) and does not use that address for any other purpose. She does her part to preserve her privacy.</p>
<pclass="block">Now Bob on the otherhand, he has very poor opsec. He uses this same address on every website, exchange and shady darkweb market he uses. One (or many) of these can work together, to correlate details about Bob. They can be hacked for this information and they can be legally required to share it, or the companies can dedice to work together to reduce their fraud costs.</p>
<pclass="block">Total Supply Is Fixed. HUSH total supply is 21 million, exactly the same as Bitcoin. We didn't not feel that changing the supply has any reason except to create a larger market capitalization in the early days of a coin, a cheap marketing trick. 21 million was good enough for Satoshi and good enough for Hush.</p>
<pclass="block">Monero has an unlimited supply, and hence, is not deflationary, like Bitcoin and Hush. Hush inherits more Store-of-Value properties from Bitcoin because of this.</p>
<pclass="block">Hush Is Better Than Zcash Because Hush Has Mandatory Privacy. Zcash has ignored the fact that optional privacy is NO PRIVACY AT ALL for over four years. All major blockchain analysis companies support Zcash now, but they don't support Hush.</p>
<pclass="block">At this point, it seems that Zcash has no mandatory privacy because it's financially profitable for them to not have privacy, so they can sell services to ChainAnalysis, CipherTrace and friends.</p>
<pclass="block">Hush Is Not In Debt To Investors. Zcash raised $3 Million USD from investors, which they must pay back, at least 10-100x or maybe more to satisfy the original investors. This is why the price of ZEC in satoshis (not USD), always goes down. They are paying back initial investors by selling parts of the Founders Reward. Recently Zcash renamed the Founders Reward, and made it even harder to track where the money goes. This does not change anything at all, just makes them look shadier.</p>
<pclass="block">Hush nodes have mandatory privacy on the blockchain and on the network and these two things together combine to make Hush exponentially more private than Zcash.</p>
<pclass="block">Hush Is A Platform To Make Privacy Coins. Hush gives you the ultimate freedom to make your own privacy coins, which can integrate with Hush or not. Zcash wants to be a king, where you live on their land and pay them a tax. With Hush, you can make your own kingdom (or queendom) and there are no taxes paid to Hush, as opposed to building on Ethereum, where all tokens depend on ETH and pay tribute. Hush Smart Chains can be completely independent of Hush, or be protected by Hush (and Bitcoin hashrate) via Delayed-Proof-of-Work.</p>
<pclass="block">Duke Leto has retired to a life of extreme privacy but still enjoys giving advice and mentoring the next generation of Hush Developers. Sometimes he even writes code.</p>
<pclass="block">jahway603 believes in privacy and in the re-decentralization of the internet. Hush and HushChat will be a part of this future.</p>
<pclass="block">onryō is a translator and a bit of some other things, it believes that in most cases privacy means security, so bringing HUSH to the masses will make the world safer.</p>
<pclass="block">SilentDragonPaper is a paper wallet generator that can run on an air-gapped computer to generate your shielded z-addresses completely offline: git.hush.is/hush/SilentDragonPaper</p>
<pclass="block">SilentDragonLite is Hush's premiere Lite wallet which syncs in a matter of seconds, ideal for the average user: git.hush.is/hush/SilentDragonLite</p>
<pclass="block">The full node wallet helps to secure the network: git.hush.is/hush/SilentDragon</p>
<pclass="block">Android Pairing Wallet acts as a remote control: git.hush.is/hush/SilentDragonAndroid</p>
