Members of the Ethereum R&D team and the Zcash Company are collaborating on a research project addressing the combination of programmability and privacy in blockchains. This joint post is being
See also a related post: Consensual Currency. “Forks” (or “hard-forks”) are a highly contentious topic in cryptocurrencies. You can analyze a fork with two questions: Does it result in two
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.4, which fixes several bugs, improves performance, and adjusts mining policies. With this release, private payments will get relayed and mined faster. Summary
As of October 28, 2016, Zcash is a reality! Anybody with Internet access can download the software, connect to the global decentralized network, and send and receive payments, without exposing
A few months ago, we launched the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge and today we are announcing the winners: CPU Winner, $10,000 prize: xenoncat with https://github.com/xenoncat/equihash-xenon GPU Winner, $10,000 prize:
Since the successful launch of the Zcash network on October 28th, we’ve had an outpouring of interest from miners and users who want to take advantage of the confidentiality and
Synopsis: A cache invalidation bug may allow an attacker to trigger a chain fork causing pre-1.0.3 nodes to follow an invalid chain. A fix is implemented in zcashd release 1.0.3.
As we announced back in August, we commissioned two security audits of the Zcash codebase and an analysis of our proof-of-work algorithm. We published the two security audits shortly before
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.3 which fixes several crashes and security bugs, improves performance, and adjusts relay policies. We strongly recommend users and miners update to this
With the Zcash launch of October 28th, 2016, a couple weeks behind us, and a couple of bugfix releases out, we’re beginning to turn our focus to the coming year.
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.2 which fixes a bug that prevented creating transactions to multiple shielded recipient addresses. This is an implementation bug in the zcashd wallet
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.1, which fixes a few bugs and improves diagnostics: Fixed a bug where transactions that contain shielded payments were not being mined in
