This is our development update for 28 Jan 2019.
If you have any questions about these updates, feel free to ask here, or on our our new forum at
https://forum.zcoin.io/t/zcoin-development-update-28-jan-2019/69 Sigma Update
Sigma is now syncing and working version is ready
Unit and integration tests being written
GUI updates for Sigma being coded
Deterministic mints are being worked on
Sigma testnet to be launched next week
Bitcoin Core Upgrade
Direct upgrade from 0.13 to 0.17 proved difficult due to major changes in architecture
Completed upgrade to 0.14 instead and has a working version
To complete patching to 0.17 by end of week
Segwit portions to be looked at.
GUI
Bugs found when picking blockchain location, identified problem
New builds available in 1-2 days.
Themis Update
Shifted to low priority until core upgrade is complete since it will need to be rebased
To conduct testing of functionality
MTP
First release of sgminer for AMD is up. Promising early performance with 2.7 MH for Vega 64 and 1.7 MH for RX580. Still has quite a few bugs and hope to complete by end of week.
Blockbook
Blockbook integration is complete and rebase to new code.
Electrum MTP
Unconfirmed balance bug fixed
Rebase of Electrum client continuing
Next-gen privacy protocol Lelantus
Bulletproofs library implemented
Working on optimizing range proofs for bullet proofs with Andrew Poelstra’s improvements
Working code expected to be today or tomorrow
Next step is to batch the range proofs.
Governance
Ongoing discussion on governance models here
https://forum.zcoin.io/t/zcoin-governance-and-development-past-4-years/26/45.
To look into other project’s governance models for e.g. Decred, MakerDAO, quadratic voting etc