Privacy-focused cryptocurrency zcash executed its first and long-awaited hard fork on Tuesday morning.
Called Overwinter, the upgrade was activated at 00:42 UTC on June 26 – the moment the network mined block 347,500, as previously reported by CoinDesk.
The event is primarily aimed to gear up the zcash code for its massive Sapling hard fork, currently scheduled to occur in October, and includes changes including versioning, replay protection for future forks and some performance improvements.
While it was not immediately clear how many nodes executed the Overwinter fork, zcash engineer Simon Liu previously told CoinDesk that there was “unanimous support from all parties” for the upgrades.
Indeed, 12 exchanges were listed as supporting the fork on the zcash website, while other mining pools publicly expressed support for Overwinter elsewhere.
The privacy-focused Zcash has become the next digital currency to have a “friendly” network split, with Bitcoin Gold being the first. Announced earlier this year, the fork saw the network split into two almost identical cryptocurrencies–Zcash and Ycash.
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A Zcash fork is now imminent. Tomorrow, the 26th June 2018 will see the implementation of the Zcash Overwinter hard fork, upon the completion of the mining of block 347500 which is expected to take place at 02:06 UTC+1:00 tomorrow (though the time may change slightly based on the network).
The first ever hard fork of privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Zcash is little more than a day away. The upgrade is called Overwinter and it will take place at block 347,500. What is Overwinter? Overwinter is set to become the very first hard fork for Zcash.
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