Zcash fixes critical Orchard bug after emergency network upgrade, restores shielded transactions

Zcash fixes critical Orchard bug after emergency network upgrade, restores shielded transactions

Why Zcash (ZEC) Network Looked Offline for Hours – But Wasn’t

Zcash deposits and withdrawals paused ahead of NU6.2 mainnet upgrade

LATEST: ⚡ Zcash developers patched a critical Orchard bug that could have allowed double-spending, with no exploit detected and the ZEC supply unaffected. https://t.co/rIK8SRzx7Y

LATEST: ⚡ Zcash developers patched a critical Orchard bug that could have allowed double-spending, with no exploit detected and the ZEC supply unaffected.

RT @Eli5defi: ICYMI, @Zcash pushed an emergency protocol upgrade June 1–2 to close a critical bug affecting the Orchard shielded pool. Ther…

Nope. Fundamentally Bitcoin is much less vulnerable to this kind of issue because the transparency makes it easy to detect and deal with inflation bugs. On Zcash an undetected bug has the potential to destroy the entire shielded pool, 30% of all wealth, and 100% of _lots_ of owners' holdings. I p

Zcash Scrambles To Patch Orchard Bug; ZEC Price Responds