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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....

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...

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...

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...

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...