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README.md

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-# history
+# Official History of Hush
 
-Official History Of Hush
+```
+Winners write the history books.
+  -- my 6th grade history teacher
+```
+
+There is a lot of garbage "information" about cryptocoins in general, and Hush in particular, spread out across years of blog posts with incorrect/broken links and out of date info. This repo takes on the burden of documenting the history of the Hush community, from the earliest beginnings, until right now.
+
+Please do not help blockchain analysts, and redact information as needed.
+
+This repo should not contain:
+
+  * zaddrs
+  * transaction ids
+
+
+
+# Earliest History
+
+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:
+
+The "Zdash" Genesis Block was mined November 17 2016 and the name was changed to Hush shortly after.
+
+Originally Hush was fork of Zcash 1.0.8 (itself a fork of Bitcoin 0.11.2), but when the Sprout CVE took a shit on the industry, Duke Leto
+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.
+
+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.