Category: News

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The next major update to the Zcash test network (z6) will be much different than previous network updates. Instead of a complete reset of the network which normally wipes all test coins and necessitates recompiling of the Zcash core code;...

Just a few hours ago I was contacted by Florian Maier @marsmensch via Twitter that he had created a Docker file to help speed up the Zcash  installation process. For those of you who are not familiar with Docker, it’s...

If you have been mining on the test-net today you may have noticed a connection error saying the network was unavailable This is because Zcash released an updated version of the Zcash Public Alpha this morning. The most significant change...