[Cryptography] [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

[David Mercer]

I just finished my port of Zcash to Mac OS X on Nov 3 (see:
https://github.com/radix42/zcash ) and agree that a mailing list
hosted by the Linux Foundation would be ideal. However I wouldn't
shutter the zcash forum: a user there contributed a patch to libsnark
to work around the lack of ::clock_gettime in Darwin/OS X that made
the rest of the port possible, and is where I connected with an
Ethereum Core developer who contributed a patch set that removed the
final few issues I was grappling with. But a proper mailing list for
core engineering work is indeed desirable.

-David Mercer
Tucson, AZ

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 6:47 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn
> <zooko at leastauthority.com> wrote:
>> open-source implementations
>
>> Jump in! The worst that can happen is that you get the fun and
>> education of implementing an interesting new proof-of-work algorithm.
>> :-)
>
> Zcash is Linux only. That's not good for diversity, adoption, code
> exposure, etc.
> Here one place people can jump in the (only known to date?) effort to
> fix that...
>
> # net-p2p/zcash: create initial port and package
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213930
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