Mining centralization is probably one of the biggest challenges digital currencies face. Many of Bitcoin's properties, such as censorship resistance and double-spend protection, rely to a large extent ...

Japanese tech firm GMO is expanding its nascent cryptocurrency mining operation beyond bitcoin through the release of a software client designed to mine zcash and other Equihash-based cryptocurrencies ...

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Zooko Wilcox, the CEO of Zerocoin Electric Coin Company (ZECC), the development team behind the anonymous cryptocurrency Zcash, revealed that Slush Pool, the world’s first Bitcoin mining pool, added ...

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A recent poll revealed community support for Zcash mining reward changes, which will take effect in November 2020. With the Zcash Founder’s Reward terminating in November, the privacy asset’s mining ...

With less than a month to go before its launch, momentum is continuing to build around Zcash. The much anticipated anonymous cryptocurrency project gained a big ally today in hosted mining company, ...

The cryptocurrency network Zcash is confronting a challenge of dominance as over half of its network hashrate is now controlled by a single mining pool, Viabtc. As of Tuesday, Viabtc held 53.69% of ...

The hard fork occurred on July 16 at 10:58 UTC at block height 903,000, according to the Electric Coin Company (ECC), the for-profit development house behind the project. An uncontentious hard fork, ...

Mining centralization is probably one of the biggest challenges digital currencies face. Many of Bitcoin’s properties, such as censorship resistance and double-spend protection, rely to a large extent ...