Tag: Zcash News

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 in the already looking at a proposed ballot for their…

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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 cross-border payments while eliminating the requirement of trusting a third-party…

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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 petro sale, but there have been a lot of disagreements…

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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 in April. The Overwinter main network activation is set for…

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