New Release: 1.0.8
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.8. This release focuses on backporting features from upstream Bitcoin and usability improvements to the RPC interface. Summary of the changes in this
March 27, 2017
ZSL: zk-SNARKs for the Enterprise
The Zerocoin Electric Coin Company’s primary focus is – and always will be – developing and supporting Zcash. However, as a startup that needs to generate revenue in order to
March 23, 2017
Spinning Off Our Sibling Company
The Zcash company grew out of a company named “Least Authority”. It was when we were Least Authority that we did a security audit of Ethereum and several other successful
March 20, 2017
Announcing the Zcash Foundation
Our Mission is to give every person in the world economic freedom — to do for cooperation what the Internet did for communication. The organization we created to launch this
March 17, 2017
R3 Report on Confidentiality & Privacy for Blockchains
Last year, R3 commissioned us to co-author (along with Danny Yang, founder of blockchain analytics company Blockseer) a report that compares and contrasts the different techniques for making blockchains more
March 8, 2017
New Release: 1.0.7
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.7. This release focuses on updating Zcash to be compatible with upstream changes, fixing bugs, and adding alerts, tests, and checkpoints. Upcoming Testnet
March 6, 2017
A Shielded Ecosystem
In Zcash, users have the option to employ transparent or shielded addresses for sending, receiving and storing their ZEC. While this decision might initially seem like a choice that only
February 28, 2017
History of Hash Function Attacks
The SHA-1 hash function, which has long been considered insecure, is now officially broken as of yesterday. Given the renewed interest in hash function collisions, I’d like to point out
February 24, 2017
The Near Future of Zcash
Our Mission is to make Zcash the premier platform for commerce — secure, borderless, and available equally to every person on our planet. We believe that Zcash can do for
February 21, 2017
New Release: 1.0.6
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.6. This release focuses on improving functionality and usability of low-level interfaces used by external software interfacing with Zcash, and on bolstering several
February 13, 2017
Transaction Linkability
Having the two types of addresses within Zcash (transparent and shielded) is an advantage which allows users to have more flexibility with how they store and transact ZEC. The dynamic
January 25, 2017
New Release: 1.0.5
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.5, which includes a variety of bugfixes and usability improvements. Summary of the changes in this release: The chain is now fully rescanned
January 23, 2017
