The first cryptocurrency to develop zero-knowledge encryption for private peer-to-peer payments. Use Zcash Learn Zcash Current price (USD) $ 50.13 Outstanding supply 13.61 M Shielded ZEC 1.31…
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I’m extremely happy to announce the Zcash project. Zcash (formerly “Zerocash”/“Zerocoin”) is a project to create a new currency for the Internet, inspired by Bitcoin. Bitcoin is an amazing and complex…
The Zcash blockchain is live! We released the genesis block this morning, and people all around our planet have begun mining and transacting on it. Our homepage links to a download page where you can…
The Ethereum Metropolis (Byzantium) upgrade adds a new cryptographic tool (zk-SNARKs) that was pioneered by Zcash. The addition of zk-SNARK technology into Ethereum is another validation…
This document is a work-in-progress. Please contact the author if you see errors or omissions. Most of the secure hash functions ever designed have turned out to be vulnerable to collision attacks.
In my first blog post I focused on the most important thing: our values. Now I turn to the next-most-important issue for our mission: funding. Here’s how we’ve gathered the necessary resources to get…