Zcash Cloud Mining
I have just heard about a unique idea for Zcash mining that can help you get in on the early days of mining Zcash without having to buy a mining rig or spend hours learning code. The concept is Turn-Key Zcash...
Zcash BETA 1.0 Release
I’m excited to announce that Zcash has finally made the transition from Alpha to Beta with the release of Beta 1.0 on the Testnet today! The Testnet has been in a Alpha for months tweaking and debugging the code. Now...
Zcash Block Explorer
Last night Zcash engineer and I2P developer str4d released the first Block Explorer for the Zcash Testnet! This fantastic tool lets users see the current blockchain height, connections to nodes, current difficulty, last block hash, last block value, and more....
Zcash Alpha Testnet z9 Release
Today the Zcash team released an update to the Testnet: Zcash Version z9 “Solidifying the Consensus Protocol” This update has a number of improvements including more space-efficient encodings for Equihash and merging upstream Bitcoin patches related to Denial-of-Service protection. And best of all this...
Zcash Network Bug
Over the past week since version z8 was released many users have had connection and syncing issues that caused users to be unable to connect to the main blockchain or in some cases stuck mining on their own chain. Initial...
Zcash Launches October 28!
It’s starting to get exciting! Zcash has officially set a date of October 28th for the Launch! There will be a couple more updates to the Public Alpha until then but they are quickly heading towards the first Public Beta due...
Zcash Testnet DoS Attack
UPDATE- Please note that the problems on the Testnet turned out to be a bug, not a DoS attack as originally assumed: https://minezcash.com/zcash-network-bug/ I am very disappointed to report that the Zcash Testnet server has already been the subject of a DoS...
Zcash Release Delay
As you may have heard from various News outlets, Zcash has been delayed for further security Auditing. Although it is a little disappointing that we won’t be seeing the launch at the end of September as expected these security audits...
Zcash Alpha z8 Testnet Update
Last Night the Zcash team released an update to the Testnet, version “z8”. This new update has a number of improvements to the Equihash miner which greatly improves solve times and allows for more solutions to be found with multiple...
Zcash Alpha & Launch Update
This evening Zcash released a minor update to the Alpha Testnet that fixes a few Security bugs and also changes some of the Terminology in the Zcash code and documentation. This update does not reset the Testnet so you will...
