Horizen to Undergo Hard Fork on February 7th
Horizen has announced that it will be completely disabling shielded transactions and deactivating all functionalities related to these transactions, specifically those involving z-addresses. This includes the removal of related RPC calls, such as z_sendmany and z_mergetoaddress.
Furthermore, Horizen will provide a migration path for users to move their assets out of the shielded pool. This change is set to take place with the ZEND v.4.2.0 hard fork, which is scheduled for mid-February.
What is a hardfork?
The cryptocurrency mainnet operates according to certain rules. To improve network performance or correct errors, changes are periodically introduced into it. A hard fork represents changes that are not compatible with previous versions of software supporting the cryptocurrency network. In order to continue to mine the cryptocurrency, miners need to update the software.
In some cases, as a result of a hard fork, a completely new cryptocurrency may appear, as happened with Bitcoin Cash and EthereumPoW.
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After the previously mentioned Hard Fork, it will no longer be possible to perform any transactions involving shielded addresses.…