Author: Gibson Ashpool

By Paige Peterson This week has been an exciting one on a couple levels. First of all, we’ve been doing a lot of work on getting ready for Monday’s 1.0.8 release. This version, in addition to the issues mentioned in...

By Paige Peterson The beginning of the week saw the timely release of 1.0.7. There was a minor issue in how we executed the release process this time around which resulted in a 1.0.7-1 version that was put out later...

By Paige Peterson This week was focused on 1.0.7 ticket triage, development and review. Some of the work done so far includes removing QT code from client (inherited from upstream Bitcoin) (PR 1636), a test for nodes when prioritizing transactions (PR...

By Paige Peterson This week began with the successful and timely release of 1.0.6 which features low level interface improvements along with upgrades to security components. If you haven’t updated your nodes yet, go ahead and do that now then come...

By Paige Peterson, “With the upcoming 1.0.6 release slated for Monday (Feb. 13th), a lot of the engineering effort this week was focused on final editing and reviewing of pull requests. Our Monday engineering meeting took a look at all...

By Paige Peterson (Weekly Updates are republished with permission from Paige) This week’s engineering efforts were rather split with the Construct SF conference happening. A few engineers joined the event for networking and to give presentations. Zooko gave a general overview of...

Early this morning the first of the Zcash Founders Reward transfers took place. This transfer of 5,611 ZEC (with a market value of approx: $189,651.00 = $33.60/ZEC at the time of this post) marks the first time any amount has...

Today the Zcash team will be marking a milestone in its development, the first ever payout from its Founders Reward. UPDATED 11/28/16 1:39pm- The transfers will be taking place later than anticipated; ie: later this week. You can keep an...

Yesterday the Zcash team updated the main net to version 1.0.3. This update fixes a number of bugs and all miners need to upgrade ASAP if you have not done so already. Meanwhile the Zcash network is working towards Block...