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+layout: post
+title: "Request for Transparency From Mining Hardware Manufacturers"
+excerpt: "The Zcash Foundation is formally requesting that manufacturers disclose certain data."
+categories: blog
+tags: [mining]
+image:
+  feature:
+date: 2018-06-12
+author: sonya
+---
+
+The Zcash community would benefit from greater transparency on the part of hardware manufacturers, as would the broader Equihash mining ecosystem. We are making a formal request for voluntary disclosures from Bitmain, Innosilicon, ASICminer, and any other company that makes mining hardware. We appreciate Bitmain’s [recent move](https://blog.bitmain.com/en/antiminer-z9-mini-shipments-experiment-radical-transparency/) in this direction, and hope to see more progress going forward.
+
+Here are the disclosures that we’re asking for:
+
+* The firm’s policy for when it does or does not mine with its own equipment
+* A policy on which blockchains and which pools the firm will mine
+* Transaction inclusion policy (for example, will the firm mine empty blocks)
+* Hard data about self-mining, such as total hash rate, updated on a regular basis
+* Shipping and volume info about Equihash-capable miners
+
+Sharing this information is a way for hardware manufacturers to demonstrate good faith and build trust with the community.