Sprout-to-Sapling Migration Tool

The Electric Coin Company is pleased to announce the official Sprout-to-Sapling migration tool in the 2.0.5-2 release of zcashd. This […]

Sprout-to-Sapling Migration Tool

Sapling Transaction Anatomy

With the Sapling activation approaching, we’re continuing our education on what users and third-party services can expect. We recently announced […]

Sapling Transaction Anatomy

Sapling Addresses & Turnstile Migration

The Sapling network upgrade is a major feature enhancement to the Zcash network targeted to activate on October 28th, 2018. […]

Sapling Addresses & Turnstile Migration

Selective Disclosure & Shielded Viewing Keys

Encryption is an important tool to control access to personal and business data. In many cases where private data must […]

Selective Disclosure & Shielded Viewing Keys

New Empirical Research into Zcash Privacy

A researcher from University of Michigan-Dearborn, Jeffrey Quesnelle, published a paper and blog today about the effective privacy on the […]

New Empirical Research into Zcash Privacy

Payment Contexts & Reusing Shielded Addresses

The privacy provided in Zcash allows users to disclose a shielded payment address publicly or to multiple individuals without the […]

Payment Contexts & Reusing Shielded Addresses

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 […]

ZSL: zk-SNARKs for the Enterprise

A Shielded Ecosystem

In Zcash, users have the option to employ transparent or shielded addresses for sending, receiving and storing their ZEC. While […]

A Shielded Ecosystem

Transaction Linkability

Having the two types of addresses within Zcash (transparent and shielded) is an advantage which allows users to have more […]

Transaction Linkability

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 […]

How Transactions Between Shielded Addresses 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 […]

Anatomy of A Zcash Transaction