Regarding Zerovert:

Poramin from Slack:

when I released zerovert, at that time, we didn't have investor backup, so only our choice is closed source to make sure no other competitors at that time copy our code and create new coin. as a result, in cryptocurrency world, no one want to take close source software serious as you know. It doesn't go well, and we cannot publish the code either. another reason is the name zerovert, when I decided to use that name because I want the zerovert becomes part of Vertcoin's ecosystem. Turned out the Vert community itself, also doesn't buy that idea. last but not least, we found huge perfomance issue in zerovert for using zerocoin, if you think ZCoin slows during verify zerocoin spen transaction, zerovert event worse. That all the reasons, why we don't pursue zerovert, and looked for investor so we can opensource and use new name doesn't tight to any coins, and fixed performance problem.
PS: Someone said we dump our coin in exchanges, this is FUD, we are pretty sure that if you look at blockchain explorer at that time, we didn't event send that coins to exchange, and didn't sell to anyone, the amount is the same, we spent some to giveaway and translation, which is only small proportion.

Thanks for posting! Great

This is very similar, and yet also very different from Zcash. Please see here for more details: https://zcoin.io/zcoin-and-zcash/

Here are the differences between Zcoin and Zcash: https://zcoin.io/zcoin-and-zcash/

Announcements

6 December 2020

Thanks for coming to our community meeting! Recording is available https://youtu.be/4f7t6O6jWhg

30 November 2020

We are now Firo! Our rebrand is complete.

12 November 2020

Here is our development update for November 2020.

30 October 2020

Firo is the first project to launch on Stakehound's liquidity bridge to DeFi ecosystem on Ethereum!

29 October 2020

We are changing our exchange ticker to FIRO based on community feedback.

27 October 2020

We are rebranding to Firo! Read the rebrand rationale.

20 October 2020

Our Lelantus testnet is now open to the public.

15 September 2020

Our first halving has been completed successfully!

22 August 2020

Mandatory wallet update version 0.14.0.5 released. Please update as soon as possible!

13 August 2020

Our Lelantus cryptographic library audit results are ready!

4 August 2020

We welcome Sproxet and Rustam to our team!

18 June 2020

We have joined the Open Collective. Donate here!

11 June 2020

Read our new post: "Paving the way to privacy on by default (with opt-out) with Lelantus"

9 June 2020

We have significantly updated our Lelantus academic paper to contain security proofs for all cryptographic primitives.

8 June 2020

Mandatory wallet update v0.14.0.0 introduces deterministic masternodes and LLMQ.

16 April 2020

We are proud to publish a new paper on Hierarchical One-out-of-many Proofs which improves proving time.

6 March 2020

We are happy to lay out Zcoin’s plans for the year of 2020 and beyond.


Getting the Wallet

https://firo.org/get-firo/download/
https://github.com/firoorg/firo/releases
https://sourceforge.net/projects/firoorg

How to Mine

https://firo.org/guide/how-to-mine-firo.html

FAQ

What is the distribution for Firo?

There will be 21.4 million FIROs. Firo follows the same halving cycle as Bitcoin (every 4 years).

The current block reward of 12.5 FIRO/block is divided as follows:

• Miners (50%, 6.25 FIRO)
• Masternodes (35%, 4.375 FIRO )
• Development Fund (15%, 1.875 FIRO)

What will Firo's Development Reward be used for?

15% of Firo’s block reward goes towards a development fund to fund development work and other efforts in promoting Firo’s adoption.

The fund pays primarily for coder and researcher salaries, community managers, translation work, audits, bug bounties, integration costs and infrastructure overheads.

We are always actively looking for talent so please do reach out over e-mail or our Discord!

How does Firo differ from the other privacy coins?

You can read the full privacy technology comparison here.

ROADMAP

https://firo.org/about/roadmap/

More info:

• Firo main site
• Official Blog
• Roadmap
• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/firo-announces-mainnet-launch-next-132700003.html

Resources

• Github: https://github.com/firoorg/firo
• Block Explorer: Official Explorer | Chainz
• Hashrate and difficulty monitor Crypto-Coinz || MiningPoolStats

Community

• Telegram: https://t.me/firoproject
• Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/4FjnQ2q
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/firoorg
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/firoorg
• Forums: https://forum.firo.org/
• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/firoproject/

Mining Pools

• Mintpond
• ZelLabs
• f2pool (PPS)
• Zergpool
• daPool
• SoloPool
• 2miners
• 2miners solo pool
• XpoolX

Exchanges with firo / fiat pairing (Use at your own risk!)

• Dove Wallet
• Indodax
• LiteBit.eu
• oodlebit
• Ovex
• Satang
• Systemkoin
• Vertbase

Exchanges with firo / crypto pairing (Use at your own risk!)

• AEX
• Atomars
• BiKi
• Binance
• Bitcoin.com
• Bitforex
• Bittrex
• Bkex
• Coinex
• Crex24
• Digifinex
• Fexpro
• Finebox
• Gate.io
• Hitbtc
• Hotbit
• Hbg
• Livecoin
• Mxc
• Txbit
• VCC Exchange
• Vinex
• Wazirx
• Wbf
• ZG

Masternode Hosting Services (Use at your own risk!)

• Allnodes
• HostingKing
• Masternodes Germany
• Masternodehosting
• Nodehub
• Nodesupply
• PDABase
• Polis Nodes
• Satang Nodes
• SetupMasternodes
• Westake
• ZCore Masternodes Hosting