Our COO Reuben Yap was interviewed on Singapore’s Money FM 89.3 on what is blockchain, Zcoin’s role in the Thai Democrat Party elections and the practicality of e-voting systems in general.

https://forum.zcoin.io/t/reuben-yap-was-interviewed-on-singapores-money-fm-89-3/146

Battlestar https://www.battlestarcap.com that offers staking as a service with enterprise level custodial protection for coins including Zcoin has partnered with cryptocurrency lending startup Celsius Network.

Celsius Network aims to support 5 more coins in the coming months with Zcoin as one of its target coins. Celsius Network support would allow users to place Zcoin as collateral for USD loans. https://www.coindesk.com/staking-startup-claims-big-returns-for-just-holding-crypto

Zcoin znode monitoring is now supported on monkeytracking.io

The halving is the same as Bitcoin. Once every 4 years. The next halving is expected in September 2020.

Hey guys

Just a reminder on two important discussions that are ongoing on Zcoin's future. Please do give us your thoughts!

Allocation of Block Reward:
https://forum.zcoin.io/t/development-community-fund-percentage-after-block-halving/129

Mechanism of Voting for Dev/Community Fund
https://forum.zcoin.io/t/zcoin-governance-and-development-past-4-years/26

Zcoin Dev Update 20 March 2019

Development updates on Sigma, Lelantus, MTP CPU Miner, PromptPay Integration and Core Upgrade

https://zcoin.io/zcoin-dev-update-20-march-2019/

Zcoin $XZC is now listed on www.Cryptofacil.com (powered by @BittrexExchange)! Register now at cryptofacil.com and get FREE TRADES UNTIL MARCH 31st (Invite Code: ZCOINFREETRADES).

Up-and-coming Resistance DEX (https://www.resistance.io) are launching a privacy-focused Donation Program Contest. The winner will receive 15% of the trading fees of their Decentralized Exchange!

Should Zcoin win the vote, we would dedicate these funds to the development and subsequent 3rd-party audit of our new privacy protocol Lelantus.

⚠️ To cast your vote for Zcoin, head to this page ⚠️
1️⃣ https://gleam.io/mlb3D/privacy-donation
+ join their Telegram group (mandatory for the vote to count!) at
2️⃣ https://t.me/resistanceplatform

There are only 9 days left to vote! You can read more about it here:
https://medium.com/resistanceio/resdex-15-donation-program-contest-4176b9656cc0

Thank you for your vote! 🙏🏼

Spend your Zcoin with PolisPay’s Mastercard®!

Zcoin recently got integrated with mulit-currency wallet PolisPay. Using their debit card, you can now use Zcoin to pay wherever Mastercard® is accepted and even withdraw cash from ATMs!

Read more about how it works here: https://zcoin.io/spend-zcoin-with-polispays-mastercard/

Happy for Zcoin $XZC to be listed on another DEX! DynX is built on the BitShares blockchain

Crypto Lark recently interviewed Reuben on where he thinks privacy fits with governments, PoW vs PoS, blockchain adoption and regulation in SE Asia and how we shouldn't be trusting anyone with our private data be it large organizations or governments.

This was one of Reuben's favorite interviews so we highly recommend you check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoi8Vi-FUIo

A couple of weeks ago Eugene from Rock the Block Live interviewed Reuben on a wide range of topics in Singapore.

Check out the interview at https://youtu.be/Czsa6O8X9_Q

For those of you who missed the Binance AMA, you can find the transcript here: https://zcoin.io/binance-zcoin-ama-transcript/

There will be a 100 XZC up for grabs and 3x Zcoin swag packages to giveaway!

Binance group link -> https://t.me/binanceexchange

Catch Reuben, Zcoin's COO in an AMA on Binance's Telegram on 6th March 9:30 AM UTC. There will be a 100 XZC up for grabs and 3x Zcoin swag packages to giveaway!

An interesting service called @phitbone has just popped up allowing people to rent a physical phone number that can send and receive SMSes using Zcoin $XZC exclusively. Remember to use TOR to access the site together with Zerocoin spends!

Catch Zcoin at the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019! On the 9th March, our Zcoin Ambassador to Boston, Matt Koskinen will be doing a talk on “Lelantus: Improving on Zerocoin”

Check out the details at: www.mitbitcoinexpo.org

Check out this detailed guide on HashRaptor's experience of mining using MTP on Zcoin $XZC!

https://youtu.be/gv14FYeL1Ew

Lelantus

    cryptographic building blocks have been built
        Sigma for double blinded commitments with batching
        Bulletproofs for double-blinded commitmtsn with batching
        LelantusProof and LelantusVeirfy functions which generate and verify transaction proofs with multiple input and output coins (combination of Sigma, bulletproofs and balance proofs).
    Code clean up is happening and to be verified before implementation

Sigma

    Implementing ECDSA signature scheme similar to what we have for Zerocoin to address the “Burning Zerocoins for Fun and Profit” vulnerability.
    Testnet is coming online soon. Slight delays due to fee handling.
    Working on Sigma partial spend feature (where output is an arbitrary amount and the change is reminted) and should be able to push code soon.

MTP

    New ccminer released with updated bos jansson.
    Sgminer feedback is stable
    CPU miner: working on some issues where cpuminer stops mining intermittently.
    Added on Nicehash. To monitor available hashrate to evaluate 51% attack risk.
    Hashrate has increased significantly. Pools do not suspect FPGA/ASIC as it looks to be more of a combined effect of MTP being listed as the most profitable on Whattomine and Nicehash
    Python module for MTP being coded to evaluate whether MTP decentralized P2Pool is possible.

Core Upgrade

    Upgrade to 0.14 is more or less complete but 0.17 is delayed
    This is due to masternode code from Dash is designed for 0.13/0.14.
    Using core upgrade opportunity to update masternode code then upgrade to 0.17
    Once masternode code is integrated upgrade from 0.14 to 0.17 is simpler.

Electrum MTP

    Detected a bug where Electrumx doesn’t react too well in chain forks. Fixing

Themis: Smart Contract Capability

    Discussion on EVM vs WASM
    Smart contract second layer which utilize Zcoin opcodes.
    Discussion on whether EVM should only be validated by Znodes
    Code is being updated to core 0.17 as well.

GUI

    Some small bugs in relating to spending multiple Zerocoins in one tx due to the way weightage is calculated.
    To fix completely, will need a hard fork for it to be clean. To do this with Sigma.
    Resolving then proceeding with public beta release.

Happy to announce another Zcoin wallet integration! Magnum Wallet is a light web wallet that makes it easy to receive and send Zcoin!

Give it a go here: https://t.co/dMGm1rDyRj