Category: News

By Paige Peterson UX research This week we published our first UX survey of the Zcash ecosystem which includes a variety of reports about using Zcash specifically and cryptocurrencies in general. We are moving forward with the next UX project which will...

By Paige Peterson This week we released 1.0.11 after delaying it a few times. We thank everyone waiting for their patience and expect to be back on track with upcoming releases. This will become easier with more engineers and a longer release...

By Paige Peterson Releases So we’ve pushed back the 1.0.11 release again by one week. Sorry for the continued delays on this – updates to the release have been posted in this forum thread. Thanks for your understanding! Once we finally...

By Paige Peterson 1.0.11 RC and release & 1.0.12 planning We decided to shift our schedule for 1.0.11 as documented in this forum comment and ended up waiting until this past Monday to create the 1.0.11 release candidate. The official release is...

By Paige Peterson Before diving into the working groups categories, it’s worth noting that a good amount of engineering resources went into investigating some heavy load on the network which started last weekend. It turns out a large exchange had...

By Paige Peterson First of all, happy 6 month anniversary, Zcashers!! Going forward, we’re going to try reformatting these developer updates in accordance with the working groups so I’ll be breaking down work into categories reflected in that document. Meta –...

By Paige Peterson At the beginning of the week, we had the first of our regularly scheduled (once a month) meetings about the pre-Sapling hard fork (HF0) in which we narrowed down tickets into a select group using the tag...

By Paige Peterson Let’s start this update with work done in the middle of the week which focused on squashing a DoS vulnerability coming from an update in 1.0.4 to transaction priority handling. The result was a security announcement and hotfix...

By Paige Peterson These updates are now categorized by working groups. A note before diving into things, our detectors have noticed a good amount of nodes still crashing from transactions submitted to the network which trigger the bug fixed in...

By Paige Peterson This week we focused a lot on development process. We did brainstorming around our continued push for open development including deciding to start opening up some of our meetings to interested developers who don’t work for ZECC....