Zcash temporarily disables Orchard transactions

Spectactular timing for this to happen during a market wide dump, lol

not to be rude, but how is this on topic with xmr?

interested in the time schedule... majority of miners agreeing to a fork sounds like it would take a lot of time if it was any sort of decentralized...

what are orchard transactions?
any chance for a layman style explanation of the general situation or an article, cause the link isn't letting the article load for me.

@avarice orchard is the current zcash shielded transaction implementation. They are temporarily suspended because miners are colluding to censor them temporarily. The reason for this is currently unknown but it is likely due to a bug that was found.
Sapling transactions, the previous shielded protocol, are unaffected, but those are older transactions that never upgraded to the Orchard pool. Most users do not use these, and new users auto shield into Orchard.
So basically shielded zcash is temporarily unavailable for 99% of users for an unknown reason.

so anyone using zcash at this current moment would be forced to use unshielded, non private transactions?

absolute lunacy

imagine you're wanting to swap into another coin rn or pay for something important but now have to compromise on your privacy

@xenu thanks for the explanation!

lel

You know, we all laugh at this, but the fact is there's probably nothing lost on the ZTrash side. The 5 people using ZTrash were probably only using the transparent part anyways.

is this zcashs version of all the thorchain/DEFI exploits lately? We get hacked for millions to never see again, they get quietly informed to fix it.

https://xcancel.com/zodl_co/status/2062022829990658305

Looks like zcash shielded transactions are back up. A double spend bug has been avoided, which had been caught with the use of recently released ai analysis tools.