[ANN] Firo (FIRO) - Implementing ZKP privacy without trusted setup

[a-b80]

 Mtp work on gpu? Ore cpu only? Dont undestend, sorry

[SARVESH SHARMA]

http://bit.ly/2Dw7enm  $XZC #Zcoin #crypto #cryptocurrency #privacy #PoW #Bitcoin #MTP #ASIC

[zcoinofficial]

Zcoin $XZC hard fork to new Zerocoin scheme has been completed. If your wallet isn't syncing, make sure you are on French Drop v13.5.7

https://zcoin.io/get-zcoin

[RhinoTrader]

Will zcoin be supported on the ledger nano hardware wallet in the near future?

A lack of mobile wallet is also worrying, I am using coinomi as the only wallet now

[kchulani]

 I too would like to know if Zcoin will be able to be stored on the ledger nano s in the future, I would buy more if there was more support for this coin. Hope the team looks into this as I believe it could increase the adoption of Zcoin drastically.

[mp7887]

hi, i will like to know if Zcoin is better that zcash and monero. i thinking Zcoin cos monero and zcash are too expensive to get and with the price of monero and zcash now i could get more of Zcoin so that why i would like to know if zcoin is better and has more potential

[xs.over]

Zcoin network hashrate distribution:
MPH+F2Pool+SN+Mintpond+Zpool 117+24.3+2.7+1.1+1~146Gh.
Current total network hashrate 245Gh.
Where are the rest 100Gh!?
Are they botnets on private pools, or maybe there are ASICs/FPGAs like doing shitty Baikal/Bitmain with their cryptonight ASICs/FPGAs, who has doubled Monero nethash just start from January?

[DjiN]

Zcoin network hashrate distribution:
MPH+F2Pool+SN+Mintpond+Zpool 117+24.3+2.7+1.1+1~146Gh.
Current total network hashrate 245Gh.
Where are the rest 100Gh!?
Are they botnets on private pools, or maybe there are ASICs/FPGAs like doing shitty Baikal/Bitmain with their cryptonight ASICs/FPGAs, who has doubled Monero nethash just start from January?

I was wondering exactly the same thing. Ideas anyone?

[LTCMAXMYR]

Zcoin network hashrate distribution:
MPH+F2Pool+SN+Mintpond+Zpool 117+24.3+2.7+1.1+1~146Gh.
Current total network hashrate 245Gh.
Where are the rest 100Gh!?
Are they botnets on private pools, or maybe there are ASICs/FPGAs like doing shitty Baikal/Bitmain with their cryptonight ASICs/FPGAs, who has doubled Monero nethash just start from January?

i check the blocks,most were found by MPH,and MPH is very lucky for hours,so the network hashrate calculated is higher than all pools.
it is very high risk to build ASIC for XZC,MTP is tested,and dev may switch to MTP at any time.

[DjiN]

Difficulty has jumped with 33% in a day. Something is wrong here!

[SatyrA]

Difficulty has jumped with 33% in a day. Something is wrong here!

Possibly autoswitch miner software affects.

[cyberspacemonkey]

Difficulty has jumped with 33% in a day. Something is wrong here!

Possibly autoswitch miner software affects.

Probably, but how do you explain the missing hashrate people are claiming in the last post?

[SatyrA]

Difficulty has jumped with 33% in a day. Something is wrong here!

Possibly autoswitch miner software affects.

Probably, but how do you explain the missing hashrate people are claiming in the last post?

Maybe some private pools did not counted.

[zcoinofficial]

We are aware of about 20-30% hashrate on some unaccounted pools. We knew this because when we were trying to notify our pools to hard fork, we couldn't find these guys.

Btw, we are aware of some of the concerns of miners that our hashrate is being dominated by botnets. Ocminer from Suprnova mentioned that previously there were some schools etc who complained to him and he identified them from many small hashrates. He does have a point.

I spoke to miningpoolhub on this and he mentioned that this could be CPU miners as well and he brought up that on other coins, there are single entities with much bigger hashing power as well.

So, both sides have valid points.

Regardless of this, MTP is now an absolute priority and coding is well underway. We will post updates as soon as they are available and a more accurate timeframe can be estimated but tentatively should be by the end of Q2 2018 and hence we won't be doing a another transition algorithm since it's not that far off.

We previously had some concerns of pool software as none of our coders are experienced pool coders but we believe that even if we have to launch with solo mining to start with and then organizing a bounty for an open sourced nomp or yiimp pool for MTP, this would be acceptable. A period of solo mining isn't bad and is true decentralization.

[zcoinofficial]

Will zcoin be supported on the ledger nano hardware wallet in the near future?

A lack of mobile wallet is also worrying, I am using coinomi as the only wallet now

A mobile wallet based off Breadwallet is underway.

The ledger nano hardware we actually had it working via sideload but because of their firmware update this broke it. See here (https://github.com/zcoinofficial/blue-app-btc)

We are still seeking official support but during the last crypto run up, people were throwing insane amounts of money to get Ledger support and their integration team was totally packed for several months. During this more quiet period, they are more responsive so we are hopeful.

[RbiggerG]

We are aware of about 20-30% hashrate on some unaccounted pools. We knew this because when we were trying to notify our pools to hard fork, we couldn't find these guys.

Btw, we are aware of some of the concerns of miners that our hashrate is being dominated by botnets. Ocminer from Suprnova mentioned that previously there were some schools etc who complained to him and he identified them from many small hashrates. He does have a point.

I spoke to miningpoolhub on this and he mentioned that this could be CPU miners as well and he brought up that on other coins, there are single entities with much bigger hashing power as well.

So, both sides have valid points.

Regardless of this, MTP is now an absolute priority and coding is well underway. We will post updates as soon as they are available and a more accurate timeframe can be estimated but tentatively should be by the end of Q2 2018 and hence we won't be doing a another transition algorithm since it's not that far off.

We previously had some concerns of pool software as none of our coders are experienced pool coders but we believe that even if we have to launch with solo mining to start with and then organizing a bounty for an open sourced nomp or yiimp pool for MTP, this would be acceptable. A period of solo mining isn't bad and is true decentralization.

As I don't understand too much from the tech perspective, will MTP solve the botnet mining issue once and for all or are there also problems that might come up some time in the future?

[SatyrA]

We are aware of about 20-30% hashrate on some unaccounted pools. We knew this because when we were trying to notify our pools to hard fork, we couldn't find these guys.

Btw, we are aware of some of the concerns of miners that our hashrate is being dominated by botnets. Ocminer from Suprnova mentioned that previously there were some schools etc who complained to him and he identified them from many small hashrates. He does have a point.

I spoke to miningpoolhub on this and he mentioned that this could be CPU miners as well and he brought up that on other coins, there are single entities with much bigger hashing power as well.

So, both sides have valid points.

Regardless of this, MTP is now an absolute priority and coding is well underway. We will post updates as soon as they are available and a more accurate timeframe can be estimated but tentatively should be by the end of Q2 2018 and hence we won't be doing a another transition algorithm since it's not that far off.

We previously had some concerns of pool software as none of our coders are experienced pool coders but we believe that even if we have to launch with solo mining to start with and then organizing a bounty for an open sourced nomp or yiimp pool for MTP, this would be acceptable. A period of solo mining isn't bad and is true decentralization.

As I don't understand too much from the tech perspective, will MTP solve the botnet mining issue once and for all or are there also problems that might come up some time in the future?

As I understood MTP requires large amount of RAM ~10 Gb. Miner activity will affect behavior of average computer much more and thus will reveal itself. As expected botnet performance will be reduced.

[Elder III]

We are aware of about 20-30% hashrate on some unaccounted pools. We knew this because when we were trying to notify our pools to hard fork, we couldn't find these guys.

Btw, we are aware of some of the concerns of miners that our hashrate is being dominated by botnets. Ocminer from Suprnova mentioned that previously there were some schools etc who complained to him and he identified them from many small hashrates. He does have a point.

I spoke to miningpoolhub on this and he mentioned that this could be CPU miners as well and he brought up that on other coins, there are single entities with much bigger hashing power as well.

So, both sides have valid points.

Regardless of this, MTP is now an absolute priority and coding is well underway. We will post updates as soon as they are available and a more accurate timeframe can be estimated but tentatively should be by the end of Q2 2018 and hence we won't be doing a another transition algorithm since it's not that far off.

We previously had some concerns of pool software as none of our coders are experienced pool coders but we believe that even if we have to launch with solo mining to start with and then organizing a bounty for an open sourced nomp or yiimp pool for MTP, this would be acceptable. A period of solo mining isn't bad and is true decentralization.

As I don't understand too much from the tech perspective, will MTP solve the botnet mining issue once and for all or are there also problems that might come up some time in the future?

As I understood MTP requires large amount of RAM ~10 Gb. Miner activity will affect behavior of average computer much more and thus will reveal itself. As expected botnet performance will be reduced.

So every mining rig would need 12 GB or so of RAM to be able to continue mining ZCoin? That's a hefty additional expense, particularly with DDR4 systems.

[Boriss]

Or maybe not if we can still use virtual memory like we did before?

If not then be prepared to invest some more money in additional bank of 8GB DDR4 memory, around 90USD per rig.

[JozaXX]

Is there are a reason why profatibility calculators are showing much greater profatibility than it actually is? I tried mining on my 4x1080ti rig and got 50-60% lower results than calculated.
I mined on mintpond and the official ZCoin pool.