Winklevoss-owned Gemini switches Zcash software ahead of faster 25-second blocks
Source: CoinDesk ·
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The new Zakura nodes caught up with the network in just over six hours in Gemini’s deployments. The crypto exchange’s previous software took close to a day. Crypto exchange Gemini (GEMI) has switched the software running its Zcash systems ahead of a planned upgrade that would make new blocks, the batches of transactions added to the network, arrive every 25 seconds instead of 75. The exchange now uses Zakura, a program that follows Zcash and checks its transaction history. Gemini said Tuesday that Zakura caught up with the latest block in a little over six hours during its deployments. Zebra, the program it used before, took close to a day. That six-hour result measures how quickly a computer can catch up after starting or falling behind. Zakura's developers published a separate test that took four hours and 20 minutes, against nearly 21 hours for Zebra. They also provide a saved copy of recent network data that can bring a replacement computer online without downloading Zcash's…