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

[Cryptochel]

To me, the biggest risk is if Bitcoin itself implements some anonymity features which makes a lot of these anonymity coins for the regular guy obsolete since Bitcoin's anonymity might be good enough. For example BIP-47 would be a good step forward. But you know how things move with Bitcoin...

[Aculan]

R.I.P Zcoin profitable mining for nVidia GPUs.

Right. And it's very sad. 

[LTCMAXMYR]

Almost 300Gh NetHash
R.I.P Zcoin profitable mining for nVidia GPUs.
Large amd farms will increase diff and hashrate to the moon, until they lower zcoin mining profitability on amd GPUs to the level of Eth mining.
 
BTW
Zcoin network hashrate distribution:
MPH+F2Pool+SN+Mintpond+Zpool 94.5+72.1+2.7+0.3+0.25~170Gh.
Current total network hashrate 290Gh.
Where are the rest ~130Gh!?
Are they large chinese farms, or botnets on private pools, or maybe there are ASICs/FPGAs like doing shitty Baikal/Bitmain with their cryptonight ASICs/FPGAs, who has tripled Monero nethash just start from January?

maybe shitmain's Asic

[deagle-pro]

lucky i got my masternode days ago ^^  but what caused the lately price pump?  cant find any news

[cyberspacemonkey]

lucky i got my masternode days ago ^^  but what caused the lately price pump?  cant find any news

A lot of alts are pumping right now, perhaps it's because of the addition to the Exvo exchange? who knows.

[fabi90]

Can masternodes be setup using a hardware wallet?

Dash allows for this to happen. For any prospective Zcoin holders is this also possible yet or are there plans to implement it?

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[Boriss]

lucky i got my masternode days ago ^^  but what caused the lately price pump?  cant find any news

A lot of alts are pumping right now, perhaps it's because of the addition to the Exvo exchange? who knows.

Maybe I am wrong but Zcoin is listed on so many exchanges already so one more wouldn't make any difference regarding volumes and fresh money income.

[deagle-pro]

does anyone know if there is a max amount of possible masternodes?


like 5.000? 
or 10.000 which would be already 50% of the max supply?

thanks guys

[teknohog]

does anyone know if there is a max amount of possible masternodes?

There's a natural limit from the total money supply. Currently there's about 4.5 million XZC in total, so you can't make more than about 4500 masternodes. Or 21000 nodes when it's all mined.

However... what good is a currency if it's all locked up in masternodes?

[deagle-pro]

yes thats not good ....there should be a limit of 5000 masternodes even if all coins are out...that would be then a good percentage of 25% Masternodes....


its shouldnt be possible to set up more then  60% masternodes or later on if all coins are out ..about max 35%

[Jonesd]

yes thats not good ....there should be a limit of 5000 masternodes even if all coins are out...that would be then a good percentage of 25% Masternodes....


its shouldnt be possible to set up more then  60% masternodes or later on if all coins are out ..about max 35%

I don't see why there should be a limit to the amount of masternodes.

[deagle-pro]

because the coin should have a usecase ...and for zcoin its the "payment possibility"
and if there are no coins out ...because all are locked its getting useless..thats why
simple....

also as the masternodes are "taking care"  of the transactions,    if all coins are locked ...then there arent transactions  anymore (very very less)  so no need for a masternode as well

[Jonesd]

because the coin should have a usecase ...and for zcoin its the "payment possibility"
and if there are no coins out ...because all are locked its getting useless..thats why
simple....

also as the masternodes are "taking care"  of the transactions,    if all coins are locked ...then there arent transactions  anymore (very very less)  so no need for a masternode as well

Well, it's a bit more than that, it's: (from the white paper)

Zerocoin is a distributed e-cash scheme that provides strong user anonymity and coin security under the assumption that there is a distributed, online, append-only transaction store.

I think you're referring to high velocity and this is actually something you want to prevent: https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-token-velocity-problem/

As masternodes require quite a high amount of coins, the risk of it all being used for masternodes is very low, Currently we're at just below 60%: https://masternodes.online/currencies/XZC/ This is similar to DASH (59.3%) and CROWN (59+7%).

We're only at 4.5 mln XZC of the final 21.4 million. Restricting it to a certain amount would mean it is very hard to get a new masternode for a new entrant. Also, the 2500 masternodes would only be about 10% of the final distribution of the coin, so far too low.

[AND01]

If zcoin uses POS, POS rewards do not need to mortgage so many coins. Now masternodes has too many mortgage coins.

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[jcthepants]

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[xs.over]

385Gh NetHash. Fckng amd whales
Thanks to shitty amd large farms. Expecting 47-49K diff in near days.
 
130+ Gh/50% inchease in network hashrate within just past day. 50

[SwissBoo]

if you're having trouble with your masternode, ask for help!

[Boriss]

385Gh NetHash. Fckng amd whales
Thanks to shitty amd large farms. Expecting 47-49K diff in near days.
 
130+ Gh/50% inchease in network hashrate within just past day. 50

Currently its fluctuating from 350-380Gh but profits has gone down long time ago