Zcash 1.0.2 Update
Zcash has just released a network update that has a number of improvements and bug fixes. One of the most important bug fixes in 1.0.2 has to do with a wallet bug in zcashd that would prevent users from sending...
Zcash 1.0.1 Release
Today the Zcash team has released the first update to the Zcash network Version 1.0.1. This update contains several improvements to Zcash including a badly needed bug fix where sometimes private payments were not being confirmed by the network. In...
Zcash Genesis!
Sorry for the late post but today has been such a huge rush of activity I have not had time to put together a post for it! In case you have been living under a rock and not following Zcash News,...
Zcash Trusted Setup Complete
Zcash has just announced that the most important step in the Genesis ceremony, the creation of the Public Proving Keys for the zkSNARKS, was completed on October 22-23rd 2016! The Trusted Setup is a vital part of what makes Zcash...
Zcash Beta Release rc2
With less than a week until Launch the Zcash team released a new update to the Testnet: Release Candidate 2 (rc2) This new release incorporates a number of improvements including security and DDoS protections but the feature I am most...
Zcash Beta rc1 Testnet Update
Its only 10 days until the Genesis of Zcash! The Zcash team has been working overtime pushing bug fixes and security hardening features that are needed for the official Launch. Yesterday the Zcash team relased a new Beta Testnet Update...
Zcash Beta2 Testnet Release
Last night the Zcash team released an update to the Testnet: Beta2. This new update has a number of improvements including patching the Bitcoin core code with Denial of Service patches and adding a safety feature that will allow Zcash...
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...
