Author: Gibson Ashpool

Last night the Zcash team released an update to the Test Network. As I mentioned in this post Instead of a complete reset of the network which normally wipes all test coins the Zcash developers have natively implemented a Hard Fork increasing the...

CoinLab has just published the first in a series of blog posts detailing it’s recently patented technology for tracing Bitcoin transactions. The first post entitled: Bitcoin and Anonymity: Not So Much details how CoinLab was caught up in the Mt.Gox scandal and...

The next major update to the Zcash test network (z6) will be much different than previous network updates. Instead of a complete reset of the network which normally wipes all test coins and necessitates recompiling of the Zcash core code;...

Just a few hours ago I was contacted by Florian Maier @marsmensch via Twitter that he had created a Docker file to help speed up the Zcash  installation process. For those of you who are not familiar with Docker, it’s...

If you have been mining on the test-net today you may have noticed a connection error saying the network was unavailable This is because Zcash released an updated version of the Zcash Public Alpha this morning. The most significant change...

Talor Hornby from the Zcash development team has just released a very good quick-start guide for anyone who wants to work on squashing bugs in the Zcash protocol. This guide is particularly nice in that it also highlights the key...

A few hours ago the Zcash GitHUB Page was updated to reflect a later launch date. The original date of September 5th 2016 has now been updated to September 26th 2016, I assume this slip in timing is due to...

Today Zcash released a update to the Zcash public alpha test-net. This new update includes the new Mining Slow Start which will limit the block rewards for the first 5000 blocks thereby allowing miners who join late to have a...