# Some thoughts about the future of ZEC **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [February 6, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/some-thoughts-about-the-future-of-zec/26764 "2018-02-06T14:37:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![CitricAcid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@CitricAcid](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/CitricAcid)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/some-thoughts-about-the-future-of-zec/26764/2 "2018-02-06T20:21:03Z")
> [@Prozec2020](#): > > It’s wrong strategy to announce something in june and september while it’s january!? So many small things can be done by then which will attract more people then Sapling. > > SO to sum things up: > > Create light wallet (official version, not coded by some random guy from the community) > PoS > Focus on small short term goals 1. See a need fill a need, you don’t like the wallet option, then create one. No one is stopping you. Please help the community. 2. if you are going to use acronyms make sure you at least once specify what the acronym stands for, there are several people who will not know what PoS (piece of $#^! ?) might mean. 3. here are your goals and achievements just for 2018, all to read & enjoy > [@January 08, 2018 - Dev update](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/january-08-2018-dev-update/25538): > > Hard to believe it’s been a year since we started these updates! So much has happened since our first official dev update on [January 13th](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/january-13-2017-dev-update/13593) last year. Feel free to poke around all of the [dev updates](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/c/dev-updates) we’ve published so far if you’d like. So the past couple weeks have been particularly slow due to holidays and events folks from our team attended like 34c3 in Leipzig, Germany where [Zooko gave a great talk at](https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9240-cryptocurrencies_smart_contracts_etc_revolutionary_tech) about what he’s learned the past years in the cryptocurrency world and our co-sponsored even… > [@January 12, 2018 - Dev update](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/january-12-2018-dev-update/25762): > > 1.0.15 release & Overwinter This week we continued some of the final steps for fully specifying Overwinter (AKA network upgrade 0/”NU0”). You might notice in the [release planning project](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/projects/19) that there is a specification column still designated to 1.0.14 which includes the final pieces for a full Overwinter specification. The goal for 1.0.15 is to have Overwinter fully implemented and an activation block height set on testnet. We also plan to have a secondary testnet with rolling activation height… > [@January 19, 2018 - Dev update](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/january-19-2018-dev-update/26071): > > 1.0.15 release & Overwinter This week we continued onwards with the [1.0.15 release](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/projects/19) which includes Overwinter specification and implementation. While Overwinter implementation is the priority, we hope for the release to address other issues as well (all of which can be viewed in the above link). We added an improvement proposal draft for the Overwinter [transaction format](https://github.com/zcash/zips/pull/133/files) and joins other drafts related to Overwinter including [transaction expiry](https://github.com/zcash/zips/pull/131/files), [signature hashing](https://github.com/zcash/zips/pull/129/files) and [network upgrade mechanism](https://github.com/zcash/zips/pull/128/files). S… > [@January 26, 2018 - Dev update](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/january-26-2018-dev-update/26399): > > 1.0.15 and Overwinter We continued focus on Overwinter implementation to get ready for setting the activation height on testnet at the 1.0.15 release. The tickets relevant to Overwinter are in the [NU0 project](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/projects/3). Many of the pull requests are in final stages of being written and several in queue for review such as the network upgrade activation mechanism ([PR 2898](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/2898)), Overwinter signature verification ([PR 2903](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/2903)), roll-back limit for reorganization ([PR 2463](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/2463)), transaction block expiry ([PR 2874](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/2874)) and add… > [@February 2, 2018 - Dev update](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/february-2-2018-dev-update/26624): > > 1.0.15 and Overwinter Following the pattern of the last several weeks, engineering has been heavily focused on implementing the code for [Overwinter](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/projects/3) into the upcoming [1.0.15 release](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/projects/19). We’ve been simultaneously updating the ZIP drafts that specify the changes to Zcash that Overwinter introduces which you can read and comment on [here](https://github.com/zcash/zips/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3AOverwinter). A lot of the focus has been on reviewing and cleaning up the code changes and these improvement proposals. We’ve also started releasing information and [guidelines fo…](https://z.cash/support/network-upgrade-guide.html) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/some-thoughts-about-the-future-of-zec/26764)._