Wallets linked to Bitgets $387.5 million hack moved about $3.9 million in zcash (ZEC) into the cryptocurrencys private payment system on Wednesday, making the stolen funds harder to follow as the exc… [+922 chars]

Three transfers pushed about 15% of the stolen ZEC into Ironwood, where payments hide their senders, recipients and amounts.

CoinDesk

Bitget hackers move $4 million into Zcash’s private pool, making funds harder to trace

Their investment firm led a $59 million financing of Cypherpunk Technologies, a publicly traded company that holds and mines ZEC. A Winklevoss affiliate sold Cypherpunk a Zcash mining fleet for $33 m… [+1243 chars]

The new Zakura nodes caught up with the network in just over six hours in Gemini’s deployments. The crypto exchange’s previous software took close to a day.

Winklevoss-owned Gemini switches Zcash software ahead of faster 25-second blocks

The developers behind privacy-focused Zcash are moving part of their proposed scaling upgrade into software already used across the network, preparing for a future with far more private transactions.… [+894 chars]

Developers are starting to fold Project Tachyon into Zakura Common as they work toward a long-term target of more than 50,000 private payments a second.

Zcash developers begin moving Tachyon code into faster private-payment software

Computers could then work on different tasks at the same time, giving Ethereum more capacity as well as more independent checks.
However, Ethereum would still need to settle questions where the orde… [+1327 chars]

Buterin wants Ethereum to do far more work without forcing every computer on the network to repeat the same calculations.

Vitalik Buterin maps Ethereum’s shift beyond a blockchain in sweeping 2030 vision

Mert Mumtaz, cofounder of Helius, which provides infrastructure for Solana developers, and a Zcash proponent, described the proposal on X as a synthetic ledger with significant tradeoffs.
He pointed… [+1242 chars]

Researchers have mapped out private bitcoin-denominated transfers that run alongside Bitcoin, but the system still lacks a finished way to lock up real BTC and release it again.

Bitcoin could soon get Zcash-style 'shielded' privacy without changing its rules

Privacy has become a practical concern in recent months as developers try to make cryptocurrencies useful for payroll, business payments and everyday spending. Ordinary bitcoin transactions permanent… [+1441 chars]

Technically, Bitcoin's back above its 50 &amp; 200 week moving averages, up ~29% in 35 days, Tony Dicarlo, director of institutional propositions at RootstockLabs, said in an email to CoinDesk. Legis… [+1124 chars]

Falling oil eased inflation worries through the Asian session, while a bill to make the government's bitcoin stockpile permanent moved further through Congress than any before it.

Zcash leads crypto majors with a 10% gain as bitcoin holds near $87,000

Bitcoin traded just above $81,000 as of Monday Asian morning hours, up less than 1% over 24 hours and adding to the ground it has taken since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cleared a pat… [+841 chars]

Bitcoin extended a slow climb through the Asian session while regional equities and U.S. stock futures rose on progress in trade talks between Washington and Beijing.

Bitcoin rises above $81,000, while NEAR jumps 23% on Zcash swap traffic

Zcash

Weekly Update (Community + Comms):
-Engineering AMA *TODAY*
-A bounty to add BLAKE2 into Istanbul 
-Zcash side-chains via FlyClient proofs 
-Product team updates

And so much more: https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/july-12-2019-weekly-update-community-comms/34077

Communications Manager

Weekly Update (Community + Comms): Special Edition - #Zcon1 Recap!
https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/june-28-2019-weekly-update-community-comms/33948

Weekly Update (Community + Comms):
-Zcon1 takes place next week in Split, Croatia
-Product updates, including current priorities
-Q2 livestream available on our YouTube channel

https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/june-14-2019-weekly-update-community-comms/33778

Today we announced the rollout of our new domain — electriccoin.co — and a fresh company brand! We unveiled these in keeping with the promise we made when the company name change was announced. Our goal is to provide additional clarity about the difference between the Electric Coin Company and Zcash, the cryptocurrency. Read about this and more in today's weekly update: 

https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/may-31-2019-weekly-update-community-comms/33674

Weekly Update (Community + Comms):
-2.0.5 delayed, anticipate a Monday release
-Transparency report published

Full update: https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/may-17-2019-weekly-update-community-comms/33532

Weekly Update (Community + Comms):
-ZIP and NUP Process Updates to Enhance Community Engagement
-Zcashd 2.0.5 is planned for release next week
-Following along with ZIP editors
-Reference Wallet Team Twitter Q&amp;A
https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/may-03-2019-weekly-update-community-comms/33368

Weekly Update (Community + Comms):
-Canceled plans to implement the feature of Splitting the Founder’s Reward (FR) in the NU2 Blossom upgrade
-Zcash Empowers Charitable Giving
-People Behind Zcash Technology: Jack Grigg

https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/april-19-2019-weekly-update-community-comms/33255