Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2016-10-10 Thread Russell Leidich
Hi Zooko, I have a simple challenge for you. But first of all, let me state that I think Zcash is the most promising of all cryptocurrencies from a security standpoint. (Yeah, I know. Them's fightin' words. It's just my personal opinion and plenty of people will disagree.) I may change my mind at

[cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2016-10-10 Thread Zooko Wilcox-OHearn
Hi folks! I've been quiet on this list for a while now. I've been hard at work on creating a Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency with zero-knowledge-based crypto: https://z.cash This is the most sophisticated crypto that I've ever seen someone attempt to deploy at scale to the Internet. (By all means