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NewbieActivity: 6Merit: 0 [ANN] ZERO - fork of Zcash with harder mining params February 19, 2017, 04:15:35 PM

Last edit: December 10, 2017, 07:06:15 PM by zerocurrency #1





ZERO is fork of Zcash (Zcash is fork of Bitcoin). It has security of Bitcoin, privacy of Zcash and few other improvements. ZERO includes the best privacy and anonymity technology available today.



Goal of this fork is:

test completely different set of equihash parameters in the wild, chosen parameters: N=192, K=7 these parameters should target generally available hardware for mining

learn from it

All these parameters are improved by this change:

higher time complexity about 16 times*

higher memory requirements about 16 times*

faster block verifications 4x

smaller solutions 400 bytes instead of 1344 bytes are inserted in every block



How were these parameters chosen:

abandoning idea of mining on mobile devices

making it hard enought to postpone the risk of ASICs

memory requirements target regular desktop PCs and graphic cards with at least 8GB of RAM

Coin distribution changes:

no founders reward

no premine

no slow start

no halvening stable supply of coins minimizing violent mining strategies removes stressful event that heavily impacts miners and market price no coin cap small inflation (smaller and smaller over time) lowers the early adopter advantage steady reward for miners can result in lower fees in future at least some compensation for forever lost coins

1 block per 2 minutes on average

10 coins per block

Distribution:

7200 coins/day (the same rate as BTC and Zcash before the first halvening)

after 1 year: 2 631 600

after 10 years: 26 316 000

after 20 years: 52 632 000

after 30 years: 78 948 000



Additional effects of changes:

4MB max block size faster blocks combined with increased block size and with shorter solution length enables much higher transaction capacity than Bitcoin and Zcash.



Unchanged:

the same initial trusted setup as Zcash

Minor changes:

wallet.dat renamed to wallet.zero (an easy change to make it just a little bit harder for a malware)

each new wallet is created with 10000 addresses to minimize losing coins due to old backup of wallet

coinbase maturity increased to 720 blocks (24 hours) to prevent currency hopping

Future goals:

merge fixes and improvements from Zcash and Bitcoin

add support for WIN and MAC

change equihash parameters if ASICS become available or feasible

increase block size if needed in future

Names and symbols:

currency name: ZERO not ZERO cash, not ZERO coin, just ZERO or ZERO currency or ZERO cryptocurrency

currency unit: ZER

currency symbol: Ƶ unicode: U+01B5 HTML entity: Ƶ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C6%B5



* Estimations are based on current state that will probably change with new optimisations and with mining on graphic cards



Launch date: 2017-02-19



Github:



WARNING: ZERO is completely EXPERIMENTAL piece of opensource software and is provided as is without any guarantees.





Quick info



For newest information continue to a new thread created by community:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2525344.0

Information below is updated by original dev only sporadically





Standalone miners GPU:

https://github.com/Optiminer/OptiminerZero Windows+Linux https://github.com/Optiminer/OptiminerEquihash



Standalone miners CPU:

Linux: https://github.com/ocminer/zero-standaloneminer

Win: https://zero.suprnova.cc/zero_nheqminer.zip zero_nheqminer.exe -u myusername.workername -t 2





Pools:

https://zero.suprnova.cc

http://zero.mining4.co.uk/

http://miningpools.cloud/?pool=zero#/

http://zero.forgetop.com/dashboard

Exchanges:

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=ZER_BTC

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=ZER_LTC

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=ZER_XMR

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=ZER_DOGE

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=ZER_UNO

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=ZER_FTC

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=ZER_DOT

https://www.tradesatoshi.com/Exchange?market=ZERO_BTC

https://www.tradesatoshi.com/Exchange?market=ZERO_LTC

https://www.tradesatoshi.com/Exchange?market=ZERO_DOGE

Faucets:

https://www.tradesatoshi.com/Faucet

Block explorers:

http://zeroexplorer.forgetop.com/

http://zeroexplorer.com/

How can you help?

Run ZERO node

Help with development, testing or marketing

Help other users

Donate: t1gUHkWqcC9ruk6iGkeDKnxtPAsrgm8AGVt

Community:

http://zero.finance

http://zero-currency.com/

https://join.slack.com/t/zero-currency/shared_invite/enQtMjg0MzA2Mjk5ODEwLWI4ZWQ4MDU1NjhiNTRhZTFiMTM4MTE2NzI0OGMwYmJkODVhNjRkZWJmYWRlYjMxZjg2YjE0ZGVkOGJiNzhlN2Y

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2525344.0

[ANN] ZERO - fork of Zcash with harder mining paramsis fork of Zcash (Zcash is fork of Bitcoin). It has security of Bitcoin, privacy of Zcash and few other improvements. ZERO includes the best privacy and anonymity technology available today.* Estimations are based on current state that will probably change with new optimisations and with mining on graphic cardsLaunch date: 2017-02-19Github: https://github.com/zerocurrency/zero