> Not only that, the anonymity feature didn't work. You can't send to "z addresses" only.
This is untrue, there was a bug that _delayed_ mining of some transactions to z addresses, but not all of them, and it was fixed last week.
- ZCash unable to send to Z-addresses without a send to a non-anonymous address.[1] Fixed in v1.0.2, released last week.
- Some randomization features removed temporarily.[2] Not clear how much anonymity this costs, but some developers are concerned.
[1] https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/zcash-bug-prevents-private-t...
The article is referring to a bug where mining of zaddr transactions were delayed under some circumstances. They were still mined. The post we had announcing the bug was rather terse and so some details were lost. The article was written from that post. We(Zcash) were the ones who found the bug and announced it.
As you can see from this transaction[2] before the update, there were zaddr transactions that got mined.
It does of course make an amusing headline to say private crypt currency has bug that prevents private transactions and it was written off of scant information, so it's understandable. But all that happened was private transactions took longer under some circumstances and that has now been fixed.
[0] https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/1718 and here is the correct issue [1] https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/1705 [2] https://explorer.zcha.in/transactions/de1d78ee310ba2c9fbeb13... pre update, there were zaddr transactions.