What is Zcash Crypto Currency?A brief description of Zcash.
Zerocash, a practical instantiation of our DAP scheme construction. In Zerocash, transactions are less than 1 kB and take under 6 ms to verify — orders of magnitude more efficient than the less-anonymous Zerocoin and competitive with plain Bitcoin.
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The purpose of Zcash
Anonymity, Secure, Private, Untraceable, Selective transparency, Dynamic scalability, Trustless transactions between parties, Freedom of payments, Counterfeiting impossible, Fraud resistant, No single point of failure, No % based transfer costs, free to hold
Zcash Abstract
In this paper, we construct a full-fledged ledger-based digital currency with strong privacy
guarantees. Our results leverage recent advances in zero-knowledge Succinct Non-interactive
ARguments of Knowledge (zk-SNARKs).
We formulate and construct decentralized anonymous payment schemes (DAP schemes). A
DAP scheme lets users pay each other directly and privately: the corresponding transaction
hides the payment’s origin, destination, and amount. We provide formal definitions and proofs
of the construction’s security.
We then build Zerocash, a practical instantiation of our DAP scheme construction. In
Zerocash, transactions are less than 1 kB and take under 6 ms to verify — orders of magnitude
more efficient than the less-anonymous Zerocoin and competitive with plain Bitcoin.
More information can be found in the Zcash whitepaper http://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-20140518.pdf
Other Zcash facts
- Trading symbol: ZEC
- Governance: Centralized > Hierarchical
- Open source: Yes
- Product status: Beta version
- Consensus method: Proof of work
- Emmission rate: Unknown
- Transactions per second: Unfortunately we don’t have this data available.
- Total Supply: N/A
- Release date: 2016-10-28
Usefull Zcash links
- Zcash’s Website
- Zcash pricing data & fundamental Zcash information
- Zcash’s Website
- Zcash official blog
- Zcash’s Bitcointalk Forum
- Zcash’s Reddit Forum
- Zcash’s block explorer
- Zcash’s Alexa site stats
- Zcash’s official forum: Unfortunately we don’t have this data available.
- Zcash’s Github code repository:
https://github.com/zcash/zcash - Zcash’s roadmap:
https://z.cash/support/faq.html - Zcash’s team page: https://z.cash/team.html
- Zcash’s whitepaper: http://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-20140518.pdf