# Zcash News News

A bug that would have allowed attackers to create unlimited ZCash counterfeits was discovered and fixed in 2018, ZCash management announced on February 5, 2019. A Glitch in the System ZCash has announced that a vulnerability in their system which would have allowed the infinite mining of coins by attackers...

Zcash’s efforts in investigating ASIC resistance have been renewed, thanks to the announcement of an upcoming ASIC from Bitmain. While the Zcash Foundation isn’t committing to anything as of yet, they are continuing to take community feedback on this topic. Zcash Foundation Commits to Researching ASIC Resistance While they are...

Zcash, a privacy-focused coin founded in 2015, received a great response to its 2017 ‘Grant Program’ initiative and has decided to continue its program to fund blockchain projects. On  April 20, Zcash updated the program’s policies for Q2 of 2018. Cryptocurrency started out as a decentralized, secure mechanism for enabling...

Venezuela became the first country to launch their own digital currency in February 2018, called the petro and it was backed by oil reserves. Now AirTM and Zcash are partnering to allow Venezuelans to buy and sell the altcoin on AirTM’s peer-to-peer network. They already had the pre-sale for the...

The privacy aimed cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC), indicated the release of its first system-wide software upgrade, dubbed Overwinter, as early as June. The announcement was publicized via its blog post on March 2, 2018. According to the blog post, the first version with the support of Overwinter is slated to release...