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Continued Funding and Transparency

Our mission is to create open financial technology with zero-knowledge privacy, for everyone in the world to use. The first application of that technology is Zcash, a cryptocurrency and blockchain

Announcing the Zcash Open Source Miner Contest

Mining ZEC 😉 All coins are created equal. All coins should be equally accessible. On October 28, 2016, the launch of Zcash will make ZEC coins available for mining. Since

New Alpha Release: Mining Slow Start

Today, we deployed a new alpha release of the Zcash reference implementation, v0.11.2.z4, to the testnet. The new release includes the following changes [1]: We implemented a mining slow start

Why Equihash?

In our last blog post, we announced that we have started using Equihash as the proof-of-work for block mining in Zcash (#27). Equihash is a Proof-of-Work algorithm devised by Alex