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How Transactions Between Shielded Addresses Work

In ‘Anatomy of A Zcash Transaction’ we gave a general overview of Zcash Transactions. The purpose of this post is to provide a simplified explanation of how privacy-preserving transactions work

Anatomy of A Zcash Transaction

Since the successful launch of the Zcash network on October 28th, we’ve had an outpouring of interest from miners and users who want to take advantage of the confidentiality and

Security Announcement 2016-11-22

Synopsis: A cache invalidation bug may allow an attacker to trigger a chain fork causing pre-1.0.3 nodes to follow an invalid chain. A fix is implemented in zcashd release 1.0.3.

The Zcash Equihash Analysis

As we announced back in August, we commissioned two security audits of the Zcash codebase and an analysis of our proof-of-work algorithm. We published the two security audits shortly before

New Release: 1.0.3

Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.3 which fixes several crashes and security bugs, improves performance, and adjusts relay policies. We strongly recommend users and miners update to this

Founders’ Reward Transfers

With the Zcash launch of October 28th, 2016, a couple weeks behind us, and a couple of bugfix releases out, we’re beginning to turn our focus to the coming year.

New Release: 1.0.2

Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.2 which fixes a bug that prevented creating transactions to multiple shielded recipient addresses. This is an implementation bug in the zcashd wallet

New Release: 1.0.1

Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.1, which fixes a few bugs and improves diagnostics: Fixed a bug where transactions that contain shielded payments were not being mined in

State of the Network

The launch of Zcash 1.0 “Sprout” worked! The blockchain is live. Mining and transactions are working. This is a brief round-up of news from the network. I found this explorer

Third Party Support at Launch

Update: 2017-09-25 – This article is left as-is for posterity. The list of supporting services and vendors for Zcash is constantly evolving. See ZcashCommunity.com’s lists of markets and wallets for

Zcash Sprout Launch

Announcement The Zcash genesis block will be mined on October 28, 2016. This is the launch of a decentralized and open-source cryptocurrency that offers privacy and selective transparency of transactions.