[zapps-wg] Powers of tau

[Innovative Inventor]

Thanks for the clarification! I’m happy to help for both the “fork” and 2nd
round.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 7:10 AM Jason Davies <powersoftau at plutomonkey.com>
wrote:

> On 27 Mar 2018, at 01:06, Innovative Inventor wrote:
>
> > I was unaware that I could join the powers of tau after March 20th. I
> was told
> > on the zcash community chat that they were no longer accepting new
> > participants. I would love to help out here if someone could tell me how.
>
> Just to clarify a few things:
>
> The parameter generation ceremony has two rounds (the first one is called
> "powers of tau").  The resulting parameters will be used in the upcoming
> Zcash
> "Sapling" upgrade.
>
> We are *not* accepting any new participants for the first round for this
> particular parameter generation ceremony.  The random beacon has already
> been
> announced and sampled (this is the final part of the first round) and we
> want
> to move on to the second round as soon as possible.
>
> As for the second round, you would be welcome to participate when that gets
> started.  Details have not been announced yet.
>
> Finally, we will probably continue with a "fork" of the first round to
> make it
> even stronger by adding more participants, so that it can be used to
> generate
> parameters for other projects (but not Zcash Sapling), assuming there is
> sufficient interest.  I will post an announcement to the list soon if we
> get
> this set up.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> --
> Jason Davies, https://powersoftau.plutomonkey.com/