Zcash Wants Blocks Every 25 Seconds, and the Fee Change Is the Quiet Twist Picture waiting at a checkout while your payment crawls through three confirmations. ⏱️ Zcash just switched on its NU7 upgrade on testnet, cutting the target time between blocks from 75 seconds to 25. For a service that waits three confirmations, that's roughly 75 seconds instead of 225. It's still a trial with coins that have no real value, which is where you want to break things. Both major node programs, Zakura and the Foundation's Zebra, already support it. Developers decide on mainnet Oct. 20, with Nov. 5 as the target date. What caught my attention is the fee change. 🧩 Under NU7, miners keep 40% of fees and 60% goes into a reserve meant to pay future mining rewards as new $ZEC issuance shrinks. And no, faster blocks don't mean three times more coins, since the reward per block drops to a third. My view? This is less about speed and more about the long game. A network that pays for its own security once issuance fades is thinking a decade ahead. One small homework note, though: anyone still holding funds in old Sprout addresses should move them before mainnet. 🌱 #Altcoin Season# #Zcash