The Zcash Equihash Analysis
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
November 18, 2016
New Release Candidate: Less than One Week to Launch
The Zcash team has been hard at work preparing for the launch, which is on track for the 28th October. Despite some hiccups due to the widespread DNS disruptions on
October 22, 2016
New Alpha Release: Optimization and Non-malleability
Today, we deployed a new alpha release of the Zcash reference implementation, v0.11.2.z8, to the testnet. The new release includes the following changes [1]: Equihash mining parameters have been adjusted
August 6, 2016
Why Equihash?
In our last blog post, we announced that we have started using Equihash as the proof-of-work for block mining in Zcash (#27). Equihash is a Proof-of-Work algorithm devised by Alex
April 15, 2016
New Alpha Release: Equihash and Founders’ Reward
Today, we deployed a new alpha release of the Zcash reference implementation, v0.11.2.z2, to the testnet. The new release includes the following changes [1]: We’ve added the Equihash proof-of-work for
April 13, 2016
