By Elise Hamdon
This is our fortnightly community and communications update; last week’s engineering update is available here.
Zcashd v2.0.4 was released, which fixes a Sprout wallet security bug, fixes miner address selection behaviour and introduces a new consensus rule on testnet to reject blocks that violate turnstiles. Zcashd v2.0.4 will be supported until block 569112, expected to arrive around July 15th, 2019, at which point the software will end-of-support halt and shut down.
Today we introduced the latest addition to our website—the Buzz page! This sleek compilation of news from an array of online sources tracks all things buzz-worthy related to Zcash and Electric Coin Company.
In case you missed last week’s event, the 2019 Q1 Livestream is now available on the Electric Coin Company YouTube channel. Learn more about our progress — directly from the leadership team. Subscribe to the channel to receive notifications in the future. Following the livestream, additional Q&A took place in the Forum.
From the blog
The light client reference wallet has been built! Sapling shielded transactions now work on mobile devices and we are ready for third-party devs to start providing feedback on the code. What previously required gigabytes of data on a server is now accomplished with megabytes of data and computation suitable for a phone. For a look back at previous articles from the reference wallet team: our goals and what we’re building, user experience, interface and styling and the underlying protocol.
Events
Today in Seoul, Korea! Zooko presented a “Recent Advances in Privacy” session at Deconomy 2019.Immediately following was the powerhouse panel — “Let’s Talk Privacy” — featuring Zooko, Vitalik Buterin and Philip Zimmermann.
Engineer Sean Bowe will be presenting Sonic: zk-SNARKs from Linear-Size Universal and Updatable SRS at the 2nd ZKProof Workshop in Berkeley Marina, CA on April 10th—you might even see str4d there as well!
Catch Jack Gavigan, Product and Regulatory Relations, at Paris Blockchain Week Summit on April 17th. He will be a panelist at two sessions: “Zero Knowledge Proof: Beyond Pure Privacy Applications” and “The Future of Currency in a Digital World” — don’t miss it!
Spotlight
A list of draft ZIPs submitted for the Network Upgrade 3 (NU3) is now available. Take a look at the submissions and provide feedback via the Zcash Ecosystem Development List, as per the process outlined in ZIP0.
