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Project Tachyon: Scaling Zcash with Oblivious Synchronization.
seanbowe.com/blog/tachyon-s…
Sean Bowe
@ebfull
Zcash cofounder, protocol developer and crypto researcher. Encrypted Money at Planetary Scale (tachyon.z.cash), Zakura Maintainer (zakura.com)
Joined May 2014
- We're coordinating a coinholder vote starting August 25 and lasting approximately 18 days, deciding on the scope of the upcoming NU7 upgrade. 1,000,000 ZEC (in Ironwood) will be the minimum necessary to accept the results.
- Two months ago we did not even know this pool would exist. Now tens of millions of dollars of capital are flowing into it daily. InsaneJUST IN: about $80M worth of ZEC is entering the Ironwood shielded pool from Orchard every day.
- We've started using V12 as part of regular development workflows in a bunch of Zcash work. Finds critical security issues, including from novel bug classes, and creates PoCs for them before your PRs get any reviews. Kudos on the raise! I'm happy to be an angel on this.
- Tal Derei (from my team!), Daira-Emma Hopwood (from ZODL) and Gregor Mitscha-Baude (from zkSecurity) are primarily responsible for Ironwood's formal verification. This would not have happened without all three of them:Replying to @TachyonZcashThis is a monumental achievement in Zcash’s history, and was a collaboration of three teams led by: * Tal Derei, from @TachyonZcash * Daira-Emma Hopwood, from @zodl_co * Gregor Mitscha-Baude, from @zksecurityXYZ
