Quote from: AltsBoom on July 28, 2017, 11:28:13 PM

Hey,

can someone explain to me the appeal of zero vs its father zcash?

i understand it has harder mining parameters but what's the motivation to use it? is there any technology in the making that separates it excluding the harder mining.

thanks

p.s: The slack invite link is broken

Well, It is outlined on the first post by the dev, calling it simply "harder mining parameters" is a bit of a misnomer since the change in parameters of the algo is the source of the difficulty being higher, being more reliant on memory among other reasons.

the modification in the parameters have these intended effects, as stated in the dev's original post:

"-higher time complexity (google this)
about 16 times*
-higher memory requirements
about 16 times*
-faster block verifications
4x
-smaller solutions
400 bytes instead of 1344 bytes are inserted in every block"

And that is just a brief summary.
In my opinion, the faster verification and smaller solutions would make it ideal in an integrated ecosystem (as well as just advantageous on it's own). like ones soon to be released or those to come such as what Ethereum is planning. All theoretical of course, someone else certainly has a more refined, detailed and technical understanding than I do.