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Okay.

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So now that we have the wallet application downloaded, verified and extracted in our persistent directory

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in this lecture, I'm going to show you how to run this application and use it to create a Monero wallet.

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Now, as I said in the previous lecture, the file that runs the wallet application is this one.

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It is a bash file.

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Therefore, it needs to be executed from the terminal.

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To do this, we can start the terminal in the current working directory by right clicking the directory

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that we want to open the terminal in and click on open and terminal.

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As you can see, you'll get a terminal window.

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But this terminal is already in persistent Monero GUI, which is the directory that we requested the

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terminal in, which is again persistent monologue UI.

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Now we can use the RLS command and hit enter to see all of the directories and files in the current

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working directory.

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And as you can see, all of these files and directories are identical to what we see in here.

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And what we want to do is we want to execute this file right here, the start UI, S-H, again, we

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can see it in here.

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And to execute it, all we have to do is type dot forward slash followed by the file name, which is

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Takai Dot S-H Hit Enter, give it some time and the wallet graphical interface will start for you.

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You can use the language here to change the language or click on Continue if you're happy with English.

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Now we're going to have to use the advanced mode in here because we're going to use this wallet on tables

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and we'll have to manually configure it to use an onion service to sync with the Monero blockchain.

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So I'm going to click on advanced mode and as you can see now, the steps that we're going to go through

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are very similar to the steps that we went through when we created the electron Bitcoin wallet.

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So the first option will allow us to create a new wallet.

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The other options will allow us to restore an existing wallet.

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You can restore from a hardware device, from a wallet file or from a seed or a key.

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Now, we don't have a wallet yet, so we're going to click on Create a new wallet to create a new wallet.

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Now the first thing it's going to ask us for is the wallet name.

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And I'm going to call this John Wake Wallet.

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Next, you'll have to set the wallet location.

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Keep in mind, on tails, everything gets deleted every time you restart the computer.

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Therefore, if you keep this to the default location, your wallet will be deleted once you restart

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tails and you'll have to restore it using the seed in here.

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If you don't want this to happen, if you want to always be able to access the wallet from your Thales

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installation, click on Browse and change the location to somewhere within the persistent directory.

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Now, as we know, everything within the persistent will not be deleted when the computer restarts,

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and therefore you'll always be able to access the wallet from within your current installation.

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So you'd want to navigate to the persistent directory.

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And as you can see, we already have a directory called Monero UI.

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This is the directory that contains the wallet UI that we're using right now.

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So it will make sense to place our wallet inside it in here.

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So I'm going to click on this icon in here to create a new directory, and I'm going to call this directory

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wallets and I'm going to click on Choose to store my wallet inside this directory so my wallet is going

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to be stored in home.

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Amnesia.

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Persistent Monero UI wallets.

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And as you can see, we have the directory here created because we created it within this working directory.

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Now it's also a good idea to copy the seed, which you can use to restore the wallet in case the file

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got deleted.

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Or if you wanted to use the wallet from a completely different computer, you can restore your wallet

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using this seed and you can use this number in here as the block number when restoring your wallet and

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using this number will help you restore the wallet much quicker.

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Once it's done with everything, click on next.

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Now it's going to ask us to set a password for the wallet.

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It's going to ask you for the diamond settings so you can keep this to the default, which will start

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a node automatically in the background on your system.

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This option will download the whole Monero blockchain on your computer.

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This is the most private way of using Monero, but keep in mind, the size of the blockchain is more

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than 25 gigabytes, so you'll have to wait.

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So first of all, you need to have enough storage.

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Second, you'll need to wait for all of this data to be downloaded.

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Keep in mind the download speed is reduced when you're using tails because everything is going through

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the Tor network.

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Third, this is a resource hungry process, so you need a powerful enough computer to do that.

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Alternatively, you can click on connect to a remote node.

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With this option, we're going to use a remote node to sync with the Monero blockchain.

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This means that we'll be able to instantly use the blockchain, will be instantly able to send and receive

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funds, and we won't need to download the whole blockchain.

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So in order to use this option, we need a remote server that will sync with.

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And I'm going to include links in the resources to a website where you can get online services that

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can be used as nodes.

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All you'll have to do is literally copy the server in here.

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And paste it in the server location and set the port to the port that we have in here, which is 18099.

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Hit next.

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It's going to show you a review of all the settings that you selected.

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We're going to say, yes, that's fine.

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Open the wallet for me, please.

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And as you can see, this will show us the interface of the wallet.

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Now, as you can see, it's telling us that we are disconnected, but now it's trying to connect.

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It's trying to sync with the remote node that we gave it.

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And you'll see that this will be very, very quick, unlike the other option, where you start the node

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locally in which you'll have to wait for the whole blockchain to be downloaded, which, like I said,

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is over 25 gigabytes.

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And perfect.

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As you can see, the wallet is synchronized.

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The demand is synchronized.

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If we click on the account in here, we'll be able to access our account page.

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And as you can see, we have zero funds because we literally just created the wallet and that's it.

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Right now we have our Monero wallet created.

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Using the wallet in here is very similar to Electrum.

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As you can see, we have the accounts page which shows a summary of the account.

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We can use the same to send funds receive to get the receive address and receive funds and transactions

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to see our transactions.

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Don't worry about all of this.

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We will use this more in the next lectures and you'll get very comfortable with it.