Topic: [ZEC] ZCASH - All coins are created equal. Discussion Thread (Unofficial) - page 23. (Read 161932 times)

"Circle Adds Zcash to Crypto Investment App" added for proof
https://yeenot.today/catalog/news/165
Vote to show your and community opinion about this news!

Do you think it is good time to mine this coin

Exodus adds Zcash for its 50th release! This is a good signal to growing up  for ZEC?
Voting for this news here - https://yeenot.today/catalog/news/148

Zcash (ZEC) all-in-one info now added here:

https://chatoncrypto.com/Crypto/C/50-ZEC-Zcash



Thanks.

Weekly update - April 28:
full steam ahead on Sapling consensus integration to prepare for activation on testnet; getting third-parties, developers and users on board and ready for Overwinter activation

https://forum.z.cash/t/april-28-2018-weekly-update/28476

I want to be involve but where I am, I cant mine. Is there a provision to earn or purchase the coin without mining now. For most coin with high anonymity, They are always face with threat for hack by Government security agencies. What is the plan for this?

official twitter:
As said in March, all work has stopped on #Zclassic. Nothing about this has changed. Any proposed fork you may hear about does not have widespread consensus. Please use caution before participating in any fork that is promising guaranteed returns or may sound too good to be true.

Will Zclassic growing to the moon again after this news? Voting for this  news  here - https://yeenot.today/catalog/news/140

This is completely your call but what I suggest you to do is check the market condition and the price of the bounty tokens. If the tokens are already at high price then sell it for ethereum or fiat

Snowden’s Message on Bitcoin, Zcash and cryptocurrencies at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ubjF3Tw_Y

The Prophecy : Seeking the Heir of the Legendary BTC.

TEN riddles to be solved.
1586 cryptocurrencies to choose from!

The first Riddle is out!
Proof of Work or Proof of Stake?

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Zcash Accepted Here" buttons for your website are now available! High-Res versions are at: https://www.zcashcommunity.com/pay-with-zcash/

Hello guys, how do you think, the price will be grow?? I think - now this is the best time for entering in zcash. 200+ dollars this is deep.

Zcon0 and Our Community Governance Panel

https://z.cash.foundation/blog/zcon0-and-community-governance/

Much of the conference will be focused on research and technology, but the last day is a bit unique; we’ll be focusing on a rather gnarly issue in cryptocurrency: how to govern. Prior to the conference, we will be determining critical decisions for the Foundation—including board elections—by dogfooding a process outlined by our chairman Andrew Miller and augmented by me. The GitHub link has more information, but a summary is worthwhile here. Around 200 members of the community will be selected to form what we’re calling a “Community Governance Panel.” Each of these members are in the process of being vetted by me and other members of the Foundation to broadly represent the Zcash ecosystem. Vetted—in this case—means they’ve had some demonstrable public presence and/or contributed in some way to the ecosystem; both would work well in a system with a publicly verifiable ballot.

Any community member—whether on the Community Governance Panel or not—will have the power to add potential ballot entries to the election, via GitHub Pull Requests to the election repo. (If you are not comfortable with GitHub, feel free to email your requested ballot to me via josh[at]z[dot]cash[dot]foundation and I will be happy to raise it on your behalf). This includes nominations for the two vacant Zcash Foundation Board seats.

Like our Grant process, Pull Requests (aka ballots) will be open for debate by anyone, but ultimately either myself or Andrew will arbitrate whether ballot entries are allowed via accepted or closed merges. A few weeks prior to Zcon0, we will finalize the ballot and send it to the Community Governance Panel to vote, and will tally the votes prior to Zcon0. We plan on using Helios to have a private but verifiable election, where community members can cryptographically demonstrate they voted in any manner they chose without risk of revealing their votes.

A few obvious critiques that I’d like to get ahead of:
•“This isn’t fully decentralized, Josh.” We know, but it’s a start, and we’d prefer to attempt to solicit community feedback in a way that still preserves privacy even if it means we’re not “fully decentralized.”
•“Wait, community? That sounds democracy, which sounds like mob rule, and I don’t want a mob running a crypto—” I’m going to stop you right there. Yes, it’s a democratic process, but of vetted community members. (e.g. those that have a public presence and have contributed to the ecosystem) And the decisions themselves are advisory rather than prescriptive.
•“Advisory? So these decisions are non-binding?” Technically yes; the Foundation Board can’t abdicate responsibility for the Foundation, although we want broad accountability and public input for matters that fall under the Foundation’s purview. That said, other ballot decisions may simply be advisory because we don’t (currently) have the authority to make those decisions—e.g., a ballot to redefine parameters in the Zcash blockchain in a future hard fork. (“the blocks need to be 1 terabyte, etc”) But the fact that the community might be strongly in favor of such a technical change should hold weight for the current maintainers of Zcash and for future work of the Foundation.
•…and many more that will undoubtedly be raised soon.

This could be improved in the future—I’d personally love to see some stake-based voting mechanism that takes advantage of Zcash’s privacy features to enable shielded voting—but it’s a beginning, and an experiment worth pursuing. The results will be fascinating, both for Zcash and the broader cryptocurrency community—results which we intend to share on the last day of Zcon0. We hope you’ll participate in this process, whether by proposing or debating ballots or joining us at Zcon0 to help brainstorm improvements. Looking forward to your contributions!

Eye-opening Travel and a Mission Validated ; https://blog.z.cash/eye-opening-travel-and-a-mission-validated/


Since Zcash has very high quality teams and advisories, we have not seen any real power.

Now perhaps it is the moment when you have to take those coins that were previously noticed every man for himself. Growth prospects have every coin, exclude in this market can not be anything. Then anything is possible. But for how long everyone decides for himself. We are still in the speculative market, and we must not forget about this.

Zcash Completes 'Powers of Tau' Privacy Ceremony

https://www.coindesk.com/zcash-team-completes-powers-of-tau-ceremony-for-upcoming-hard-fork/

Very nice developments coming soon.

 ZCASH just released updated UX guidelines for wallet developers. Use them to make the world a little bit better.  https://z.cash/support/ux-checklist.html

Thank you dev for the recent update.
This week we packaged up and tested the parameters generated from phase 1 of the MPC (aka Powers of Tau): Is there any relationship with Agoras-Tau project.
What Tau mean?
Thanks

Just a quick dev update on Overwinter and Sapling this week. I’ll elaborate on more community related updates next week but as a reminder: Zcon0 & Consensus Scholar program1 applications are open!

Overwinter Release
This week we made the go decision for moving forward with the Overwinter release without inserting a buffer release. We received reports back from auditors of Overwinter changes and while some issues were found, they were not consensus related and therefore addressable in subsequent releases. This go decision essentially means that we plan to release 1.1.0 next week which will have include the target block height for activation on the main network. As always, you can keep track of the countdown to Overwinter activation on the information portal2. We haven’t made the decision for the exact block height, yet but as mentioned previously, we’ll be targeting June 25th of this year and will obviously share that height when we decide.

We’ve packaged a 1.1.0 release candidate and will do some testing before cutting the main release which is scheduled for Monday but could be pushed back a day or two to make sure we have the RC testing fully covered.

Results from the Overwinter audit review will be published in the near future.

Sapling
This week we packaged up and tested the parameters generated from phase 1 of the MPC (aka Powers of Tau) and will be announcing them along with a coordinator report in the coming days. We also finished the verification tool for those parameters and released the code for phase 2 of the MPC for the Sapling circuit which we’ll probably start this weekend.

Audits of the Sapling libraries are also underway and we’ve decided to move forward with a shielded ZEC accounting turnstyle. This means that when users migrate their ZEC from version 1 (Sprout/Overwinter) to version 2 (Sapling) shielded addresses, the value within that transfer is temporarily revealed. We’re discussing how to do this so that users maintain the most optimal privacy but the goal here is to address the lack of accounting ability for the shielded ZEC pool that so many people are concerned about. We have time to consider the best approach to do this accounting while maintaining the most optimal privacy for users and of course, always welcome community input.