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Top stories in the Crypto Roundup today: Bitcoin Testnet proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor, first ‘friendly fork’ of Zcash blockchain and milestone for 0x As 0x Mesh released.

Bitcoin defied many expectations yesterday to surge once again back above the $10,000 level. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at the time of writing at $10,484.75 (6.95%) with a daily volume of $6.21 bn, while ether (ETH) is trading at $222.06 (2.65%) with a daily volume of $2.17 bn.

 
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Bitcoin Testnet Proposed by Bitcoin Core Contributor

 

Bitcoin Core contributor Karl-Johan Alm submitted a new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) to the Bitcoin developer mailing list describing “a new type of test network (aka testnet) where signatures are used in addition to proof of work for block progress, enabling much better coordination and robustness (be reliably unreliable), for persistent, longer-term testing scenarios involving multiple independent parties.”

Explaining the impetus for the proposed testnet - which Alm calls SigNet - the Bitcoin Core developer argued that while the current Bitcoin test network is “a great place to try out new things without risking real money…it is notoriously unreliable.”

“The goal is not to be perfectly reliable but rather to have a predictable amount of unreliability,” Alm stated in the BIP published on Wednesday.

 
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First ‘Friendly Fork’ of Zcash Blockchain

 

Privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Zcash is today being forked to create Ycash, a new blockchain network being spawned thanks to long-time Zcash supporter Howard Loo. At launch, Ycash - which is being dubbed a “friendly fork” of the Zcash blockchain - is differentiating itself only slightly from Zcash.

The main difference between the two comes with respect  to the so-called Founders' Reward rate. Currently, every time a block is mined on the Zcash blockchian, 20 percent of the block reward is allocated to a Zcash-specific development fund. On Ycash, this figure will perpetually remain at 5 percent.

In an April 12 blog post by Loo, he explained the reason for Ycash’s creation is “to uphold…that the Zcash Founders' Reward would be forever capped at 2.1 million coin... that we fear will come under increasing pressure between now and the expiration of the Founders Reward in October 2020.”

 
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Milestone for 0x As 0x Mesh Released

 

The team working on 0x - an open protocol that enables the decentralized exchange of assets on the Ethereum blockchain - released the beta version of 0x Mesh on Thursday. “0x Mesh is a peer-to-peer network for sharing orders that adhere to the 0x order message format,” according to 0x’s GitHub repository.

Commenting on 0x’s announcement was Forecast Foundation co-founder and Pantera Capital co-chief investment officer Joey Krug, tweeting that the milestone release was “why [he] invested in the seed [fundraising round and] advised [the 0x team] from the beginning.”

 
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