ZODL founder: After running for ten years, the Zcash original node software, zcashd, has officially been “retired”

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PANews July 19 news: ZODL founder Josh Swihart posted to commemorate zcashd (the Zcash original official node software) being scheduled to stop maintenance at block height 3,417,100. “The Zcash network continues to run uninterrupted on Zebra and Zakura (modern Rust node implementations), and the Zallet wallet has replaced the zcashd wallet. Although blocks are still being generated, the original software that breathed life into Zcash has officially been retired after running continuously for ten years.”

zcashd was originally a branch of Bitcoin Core v0.11.2, and on October 28, 2016 it launched the Zcash network. It was the first large-scale production deployment of zk-SNARKs, and also an experiment into whether zero-knowledge cryptography can secure real value on public blockchains. In Zcash’s history, every network upgrade has been carried out through zcashd—from Sprout to Overwinter to Sapling, and later the Blossom, Heartwood, and Canopy versions. From the NU5 and Orchard pools to today: before Ironwood officially went live, it was already retired.

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