Do you wish to remove the developer fee of 2 percent that comes with the EWBF AMD and Nvidia Cuda Zcash miner? The new version is better than ever but includes a 2 percent developer fee. This means every hour, the Nvidia Zcash miner app will mine for few minutes for the developer. This way the developer gets some money in his Zcash wallet.
Team behind Ycash, a friendly soft fork of Zcash, has released its first development roadmap. The Ycash Foundation will fund projects in four key areas.
BitOasis, a cryptocurrency exchange from middle east has announced on its website that it will be delisting both Zcash (ZEC) and Monero (XMR). Both being the privacy coins, it is safe to assume that BitOasis wants to do away with anonymous cryptocurrencies.
Zcash team has announced that the Zcash Sapling upgrade was activated today at block height 419200. Sapling is an important upgrade for the Zcash network as it brings support for new shielded addresses and memory reduction of 97 percent.
Zcash team has released its first Sapling RPC supported version of the Zcash node software. The Zcash Sapling activation will happen around 28th of October 2018, which is the day when Zcash becomes two year old.
BitGo has announced support for Zcash. BitGo is a popular cryptocurrency wallet and world’s largest processor for bitcoin transactions. Infact, BitGo processes around 15 percent of total bitcoin transactions and total of 15 billion dollars across all of the supported cryptocurrencies. It has customer base in more than 50 countries around the world.
Looks like Zencash can’t have a day without hacks. The team is now sending emails to all Zen Help users that ZenHelp website, a dedicated support system was compromised by hacker. In the hack, admin credentials were hacked and hacker got control of tickets data.
Coinbase just announced on their plan with intention to add four new coins to their website. This includes Cardano (ADA), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Zcash (ZEC) and 0x (ZRX). Also, for Zcash, only t-addresses will be supported which are not used for private transactions.
Sapling is next major upgrade for the Zcash coin which was supposed to be roll out before September has been postponed. This will not affect timeline of Zcash Overwinter update that will be activated on June 25th 2018 and so are other related activities like third party security audits.
Ethereum Private is an upcoming hard fork of Ethereum and Zcash blockchain and promises to combine everything that is great about Ethereum and Zcash. Ethereum Private hard fork date is 13th of June 2018. Each Ethereum holders gets ETHP coins in 1:1 ratio while Zcash holders get 0.5ETHP for each ZEC they hold (1:2). So, if you have 2 ethereum, you get 2 ETHP and if you’ve 2 Zcash, you get 1 ETHP.