Hush was originally called "Zdash" and an online contest for a new name is how we got the name "Hush",
which also could have been called "Hash" :joy:
@ -27,8 +25,21 @@ The [first Hush source code](https://git.hush.is/hush/hush) was fork of Zcash 1.
decided to migrate to a Komodo source code fork, which was based on Zcash 2.0. This was the least amount
of work to switch to Sapling zaddrs and still have Delayed-Proof-of-Work and various other improvements.
## Cryptopia Double Spend Attack
Hush was one of the many coins which were attacked on Cryptopia. Delayed-Proof-of-Work had already been
written by Duke Leto (Hush was the first Zcash Protocol coin to add DPoW), but had not been deployed to
exchanges. Exchanges rarely updated software and there was no communication line between developers and
exchange operators, just like always.
## New Blockchain Feeling
The Hush v3 mainnet (a KMD source code fork) launched in April 2019, and will always be known as the world's
first Pure Sapling Zcash Protocol coin.
first Pure Sapling Zcash Protocol coin. The importance of this is that Sprout zaddrs were painfully and unusably
slow, except for research+development, then had a horrible inflation bug. Hush avoids the entire attack surface of
Sprout by not having a single Sprout transactions in our blockchain. This leads to Hush being much faster than Zcash or other coins to sync a full node. Current reports say that on fast internet the full HUSH v3 blockchain
