From Coindesk
The development team of the zcash cryptocurrency has released new software that contains support elements of the network's planned Sapling upgrade, set to take place later this year.Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/new-zcash-software-sets-stage-sapling-upgrade/Sapling isn't the first hard fork for zcash on the horizon – that's Overwinter, which is slated for late June of this year – but the 1.1.1 update puts the initial consensus rules in place as prepares a Sapling-based testnet, according to release notes published Wednesday.
The Zcash team first revealed details about Sapling back in February of last year, which is aimed at speeding up transactions on the network, as previously reported.
What's missing is an activation "block height" – essentially, the exact transaction block at which point the Sapling hard fork takes effect – and according to developers, this will be included in a future update.
"As a reminder, because the Sapling activation height is not yet specified for mainnet, version 1.1.1 will behave similarly as other pre-Sapling releases even after a future activation of Sapling on the network. Upgrading from 1.1.1 will be required in order to follow the Sapling network upgrade on mainnet," the blog post explained.
I'm a fan of and active miner of ZCash. I'm glad to see they have upcoming network upgrades as well as promises to fight back against upcoming ASIC hardware that may already be in the wild. If you aren't already hodling a little ZCash I suggest you pick some up.
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