[ANN] HUSH Secure Private Transactions [Equihash][Community Project]

[TheStuhlman]

Hi TheStuhlman.
I send request to Bittrex support and got answer:
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Ryan Hentz (Bittrex)Apr 15, 07:01 PDTThanks for the request. Our policy is to not comment on whether we will launch coins but we only add coins under active development with high community demand.
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<<<Please encourage the development team to contact support@bittrex.com.  >>>


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We gauge demand based off of tweets, hash power, length of bitcointalk thread, volume on other exchanges, etc. Follow us on twitter @bittrexexchange and tweet about how much you like this coin and Bittrex. We respond to creative and insightful posts to help market your favorite coins and Bittrex... "

I am on bittrex Slack everyday so is the rest of the team. I am waiting on the new update and new wallets to resubmit Zdash again. That does not mean bittrex can not add now, but it will save them time once the update is out.

Hi Mr Stuhlman

What is the likelihood of this actually happening from your perspective?

From what I see this ANN is not very long, there doesn't seem to be too many tweets or actually that much social network activity, NetHash is low but increasing and volume is sketchy but improving.

Don't get me wrong, I would love for ZDash to hit bitterx (I have been throwing 3ksol at the network for a few days now), however, it doesn't seem likely with such a small community and such little activity right now.

Would appreciate your thoughts

We are working with two new contributors to the Zdash project now. We are updating the code and making new easy to use wallets for windows.
I have committed a large portion of the premine to code contributions.  This will buy us time as a community project to move forward without the need to ask for miner contributions or swapping and asking for funds, or any other gimmicks... once the community fund is consumed and we have moved forward enough to keep the project alive and kicking, we will assign a dev fund address to allow us to keep moving forward. For now the miners get to keep all what they mine.  When we are done with the new code you will get to know who is working on this project as well.  We will address Bittrex again after the update and push for listing.



We have updated Zdash to version 1.0.8-1 on github please compile and test this version.

https://github.com/J-Stuhlman/zdash.git

* Keep a backup of your wallet.dat

If all tests are fine and no problems are reported we will move to the GUI version of the wallet, including the windows version.

note: The current Linux GUI version of wallet will need an update as well.

[senne]

 

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More to come

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We allready found 1000 blocks, thanks miners and remember: happy hashing!


we just update dour wallet to latest version and allready found some blocks after the update!

[M.minor]

TheStuhlman, you're a smart guy, good answers,good luck Zdash ahead of a lot of work.

[TheStuhlman]

Syncing Windows CMD Line version 1.0.8-1 now, after testing we move to full windows GUI

[arch365]

Syncing Windows CMD Line version 1.0.8-1 now, after testing we move to full windows GUI

Awesome that means Zdash is growing

[Raizou]

Hello, there are wallet windows? When will Zdash be added to a new exchange?

[TheStuhlman]

Hello, there are wallet windows? When will Zdash be added to a new exchange?

We should have the full GUI wallet in a couple of days.
The windows CMD line is on OP now.

[TheStuhlman]

you need the daemon compiled and running to use the Linux GUI wallet:

Zdash Linux GUI wallet : https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui
You can compile this wallet for windows as well.

Zdash Windows CMD line + bootstrap file:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8pn_FMrY5v_Rm51aGhoUnQzQmc?usp=sharing

you can download the proving key for windows here:

https://zcash.dl.mercerweiss.com/sprout-proving.key

proving keys go in %AppData%\ZcashParams\ and config files, etc in %AppData%\Zdash\

Edit: Full windows GUI wallet is not released yet, needs a couple of days for testing.

[degxtra1]

Anyone can tell me how many Zdash per day I can mine with gtx1080 on today mean difficulty?
thanks

[arch365]

Anyone can tell me how many Zdash per day I can mine with gtx1080 on today mean difficulty?
thanks

use Whattomine https://whattomine.com/coins/168-zdash-equihash

[vaklinov]

As already announced by @TheStuhlman, I intend to maintain the Zdash Desktop GUI Wallet

https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui

in cooperation with the Zdash core development team. If any community members would like improvements or have issues, they may be reported on the GitHub site on the "Issues" section:

https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui/issues

If you find the GUI Wallet useful, please consider making a donation for its further development. Your contribution matters! The donation address is on the GitHub site...

[Clminer]

As already announced by @TheStuhlman, I intend to maintain the Zdash Desktop GUI Wallet

https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui

in cooperation with the Zdash core development team. If any community members would like improvements or have issues, they may be reported on the GitHub site on the "Issues" section:

https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui/issues

If you find the GUI Wallet useful, please consider making a donation for its further development. Your contribution matters! The donation address is on the GitHub site...

Can you guys make a small video, or a file with pictures how to install the wallet on windows! not everybody understand what you mean! 

Thanks...

[TheStuhlman]

As already announced by @TheStuhlman, I intend to maintain the Zdash Desktop GUI Wallet

https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui

in cooperation with the Zdash core development team. If any community members would like improvements or have issues, they may be reported on the GitHub site on the "Issues" section:

https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui/issues

If you find the GUI Wallet useful, please consider making a donation for its further development. Your contribution matters! The donation address is on the GitHub site...

I can verify This post is by Ivan Vaklinov.

and this is the github branch where he will maintain the GUI wallet.

https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui


Ivan's donation address is found in the readme file, on the link above. If you use the wallet and like it, please do not hesitate to make a donation.


Joseph

[TheStuhlman]

As already announced by @TheStuhlman, I intend to maintain the Zdash Desktop GUI Wallet

https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui

in cooperation with the Zdash core development team. If any community members would like improvements or have issues, they may be reported on the GitHub site on the "Issues" section:

https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui/issues

If you find the GUI Wallet useful, please consider making a donation for its further development. Your contribution matters! The donation address is on the GitHub site...

Can you guys make a small video, or a file with pictures how to install the wallet on windows! not everybody understand what you mean!  

Thanks...

This is the CMD line wallet. If you do not need it for mining, please wait a couple of days for the Full windows GUI wallet.
It will come with installer and will be much easier to setup/use.

Anyway I will see if sparkit or Demartini have some recording software to make video instructions for the cmd line wallet.

[Clminer]

As already announced by @TheStuhlman, I intend to maintain the Zdash Desktop GUI Wallet

https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui

in cooperation with the Zdash core development team. If any community members would like improvements or have issues, they may be reported on the GitHub site on the "Issues" section:

https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui/issues

If you find the GUI Wallet useful, please consider making a donation for its further development. Your contribution matters! The donation address is on the GitHub site...

Can you guys make a small video, or a file with pictures how to install the wallet on windows! not everybody understand what you mean!  

Thanks...

This is the CMD line wallet. If you do not need it for mining, please wait a couple of days for the Full windows GUI wallet.
It will come with installer and will be much easier to setup/use.

Anyway I will see if sparkit or Demartini have some recording software to make video instructions for the cmd line wallet.

Thanks for the reply!  Great project, keep up the good stuff!

[Labro]

did you meanwhile changed the name from ZCash to ZDash in the Linux Wallet (maybe aswell in the unpublished windows wallet)?

Thanks a lot, i'm in

[Mysticus]

What is the exact command line sequence to enter on the terminal to upgrade from 1.0.3 to the new 1.0.8-1 on Linux ?

For Zcash, upgrading instructions are published here :  https://github.com/zcash/zcash/wiki/1.0-User-Guide   :

git fetch origin
git checkout v1.0.8-1
./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
./zcutil/build.sh --disable-rust -j$(nproc)

For Zclassic, upgrading instructions are published here :  https://github.com/z-classic/zclassic/wiki/1.0-User-Guide   :

git fetch origin
git checkout master
make clean
./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
./zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)

As you can see the instructions to follow are slightly different for Zcash and Zclassic.  What are the exact instructions for Zdash ?  There is a need for clear, unequivocal instructions to enter on terminal for upgrading to 1.0.8-1 as we are not all advanced users.

Zdash team, please provide official, clear and detailed instructions about how to upgrade from the previous 1.0.3 version since there are none on the zdash github page:  https://github.com/J-Stuhlman/zdash  

There are instructions for a new Zdash installation, but no info on how to upgrade from an already installed previous Zdash version.

Thanks in advance.

[TheStuhlman]

What is the exact command line sequence to enter on the terminal to upgrade from 1.0.3 to the new 1.0.8-1 on Linux ?

For Zcash, upgrading instructions are published here :  https://github.com/zcash/zcash/wiki/1.0-User-Guide   :

git fetch origin
git checkout v1.0.8-1
./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
./zcutil/build.sh --disable-rust -j$(nproc)

For Zclassic, upgrading instructions are published here :  https://github.com/z-classic/zclassic/wiki/1.0-User-Guide   :

git fetch origin
git checkout master
make clean
./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
./zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)

As you can see the instructions to follow are slightly different for Zcash and Zclassic.  What are the exact instructions for Zdash ?  There is a need for clear, unequivocal instructions to enter on terminal for upgrading to 1.0.8-1 as we are not all advanced users.

Zdash team, please provide official, clear and detailed instructions about how to upgrade from the previous 1.0.3 version since there are none on the zdash github page:  https://github.com/J-Stuhlman/zdash  

There are instructions for a new Zdash installation, but no info on how to upgrade from an already installed previous Zdash version.

Thanks in advance.

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python zlib1g-dev wget bsdmainutils automake

git clone https://github.com/J-Stuhlman/zdash.git && cd zdash/ && ./zcutil/fetch-params.sh

./zcutil/build.sh

[ZPoolIT]

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ZDash Pool:
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Some of our pool aspects:
- 0% Pool Tax,
- Fully donation driven,
- High up time and low latency,
- PPLNS Rewards & Payouts,
- 0.01 Minimum Withdrawal.

[Mysticus]

What is the exact command line sequence to enter on the terminal to upgrade from 1.0.3 to the new 1.0.8-1 on Linux ?

Zdash team, please provide official, clear and detailed instructions about how to upgrade from the previous 1.0.3 version since there are none on the zdash github page:  https://github.com/J-Stuhlman/zdash  

There are instructions for a new Zdash installation, but no info on how to upgrade from an already installed previous Zdash version.

Thanks in advance.

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python zlib1g-dev wget bsdmainutils automake

git clone https://github.com/J-Stuhlman/zdash.git && cd zdash/ && ./zcutil/fetch-params.sh

./zcutil/build.sh

Wonderful!  Thanks for the tip Joseph, I know you're busy, this has been very useful.  

Here is what I did, I share it for other Linux beginners like me.  
Upgrading from 1.0.3 to 1.0.8-1:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python zlib1g-dev wget bsdmainutils automake
After that I had to rename the old zdash folder to oldzdash so that there was no folder named zdash before procedding further.
I made a copy of the file wallet.dat located in the home/user/.zdash folder just in case.
I let the home/user/.zdash folder as it was, without renaming/erasing/modifying it.
After that I entered:
git clone https://github.com/J-Stuhlman/zdash.git
Then:
cd zdash
./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
Nothing happened, as the zk-snark key was identified as already present in my computer and apparently didn't undergone any change in the new version.
Then:
./zcutil/build.sh
which is the longer part, time to meditate a bit...
Then:
./src/zcashd
Since I made no change to the whole home/user/.zdash folder (containing blockchain, wallet.dat & conf. file), synchronization is fast because most of the blockchain was already downloaded and synchronized from the last version.
Then, installing the new GUI by following instructions there:
https://github.com/vaklinov/zdash-swing-wallet-ui
I invite anyone to give some Zdash to Vaklinov to support his GUI development.

Surprise!  I now have 8 active connections instead of 2-3 in the old 1.0.3 version, without having to open any port.

Already sent and received some Zdash, everything is working fine until now.

These instructions could possibly be added to the github page so that others with the old version installed can easily upgrade to the new version.