Cryptocurrency UX Challenges
What is and is not a UX problem It’s common to think that bugs are a UX problem. Let’s say that there is a bug that causes an application to
August 21, 2017
A Preliminary UX Survey of the Zcash Ecosystem
Zcash hired a user experience specialist to study the Zcash ecosystem. Linda works to streamline UX in software, but had no experience with cryptocurrency before this project. Below are the
August 21, 2017
New Release: 1.0.11
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.11, which includes bug fixes and usability improvements. Summary of the changes included in this release: We fixed a 401 Unauthorized bug encountered
August 16, 2017
Cultivating Sapling: New Crypto Foundations
Zcash’s next major protocol upgrade, codenamed Sapling, will feature a number of improvements to the performance, security and usability of our shielded transactions. This is the first in a series
July 26, 2017
New Release: 1.0.10-1
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.10-1, a hotfix release that all users are encouraged to upgrade to, especially users who updated to 1.0.10 in the last 48 hours.
June 24, 2017
New Release: 1.0.10
UPDATE: We are aware of an issue that causes nodes running v1.0.10 to be unable to connect to other nodes, and vice versa. Users are advised to upgrade to v1.0.10-1,
June 22, 2017
Zcash Global Growth
Internet money enables people to send money anywhere in the world, cheaply [1], and in minutes. Zcash can be used for remittances and also expands job opportunities for remote knowledge
June 21, 2017
Pay-to-sudoku Revisited
Last year, I created a project called pay-to-sudoku which was the world’s first implementation of a zero-knowledge contingent payment (ZKCP). ZKCPs were invented in 2011 by Gregory Maxwell, and are
June 8, 2017
Explaining SNARKs Part VII: Pairings of Elliptic Curves
<< Part VI In Part VI, we saw an outline of the Pinocchio zk-SNARK. We were missing two things – an HH that supports both addition and multiplication that is
June 7, 2017
New Release: 1.0.9
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.9. This is our first release using our new release cycle and focused exclusively on improvements to testing, security, benchmarking, automation, and portability.
May 24, 2017
Press release: Zero-knowledge Security Layer to be Added to Quorum Blockchain Platform
The Zerocoin Electric Coin Company (ZECC), developers of the Zcash™ digital currency, today announced a partnership with J.P. Morgan, one of the world’s largest banks, to add technology from Zcash
May 22, 2017
Getting Started Developing with Zcash
Over the short history of Zcash, we’ve seen a substantial growth in the ecosystem from wallets and exchanges to more experimental applications like zmsg. As the Zcash core development team
May 11, 2017
