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
The privacy provided in Zcash allows users to disclose a shielded payment address publicly or to multiple individuals without the worry of transactions sent to that address becoming linked in
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
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
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
As of October 28, 2016, Zcash is a reality! Anybody with Internet access can download the software, connect to the global decentralized network, and send and receive payments, without exposing
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
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
Matthew Green and I have written a paper introducing BOLT (Blind Off-chain Lightweight Transactions), which offers a fast, private payment channel protocol inspired by the Lightning Network. We believe that
