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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 update contains the fix for the  MAX_HEADERS_RESULTS  Bug that caused many users to not to be able to connect to the...

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 reports and Github issues saw the strange peer behavior and assumed that a third party was using many peers (in...

It's starting to get exciting! Zcash has officially set a date of October 28th for the Launch! There will be a couple more updates to the Public Alpha until then but they are quickly heading towards the first Public Beta due by September 7th. The Public Beta will be a new RPC interface (though still command line) and will have much...

UPDATE- Please note that the problems on the Testnet turned out to be a bug, not a DoS attack as originally assumed: https://minezcash.com/zcash-network-bug/ I am very disappointed to report that the Zcash Testnet server has already been the subject of a DoS (Denial of Service) attack. For the past week since Testnet version z8 was released there have been many users (including myself)...

As you may have heard from various News outlets, Zcash has been delayed for further security Auditing. Although it is a little disappointing that we won't be seeing the launch at the end of September as expected these security audits are absolutely necessary to ensure that Zcash is as secure a platform as it can be.  In addition to the...

Last Night the Zcash team released an update to the Testnet, version "z8". This new update has a number of improvements to the Equihash miner which greatly improves solve times and allows for more solutions to be found with multiple threads. Z8 also includes a great benchmarking tool update. Previously you were able to measure your computers hashing performance by...

This evening Zcash released a minor update to the Alpha Testnet that fixes a few Security bugs and also changes some of the Terminology in the Zcash code and documentation. This update does not reset the Testnet so you will not lose your existing coins. You can apply the update by running: git fetch origin git checkout zc.v0.11.2.z7 ./zcutil/fetch-params.sh Zcash is fast approaching the...

Last night the Zcash team released an update to the Test Network. As I mentioned in this post Instead of a complete reset of the network which normally wipes all test coins the Zcash developers have natively implemented a Hard Fork increasing the block size to 2MB. This new release (z6) also implements a much needed Equihash optimization that randomizes the nonce values to...

CoinLab has just published the first in a series of blog posts detailing it's recently patented technology for tracing Bitcoin transactions. The first post entitled: Bitcoin and Anonymity: Not So Much details how CoinLab was caught up in the Mt.Gox scandal and began digging through the Bitcoin Blockchain to try and find where funds had gone to. This research has evolved into...

I have put together a comprehensive Tutorial to help anyone learn to Mine Zcash. Since Zcash is only Linux based many people on Reddit and the Zcash forums have been discouraged from getting involved because it can be a steep learning curve. I hope that someone who has never used Linux before will find this guide and be able to set up their own machine with...