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Zcash Doesn’t Need Your Trust - Most Influential 2022
On today’s show we look at the story behind the CEO who designed a protocol that radically improved privacy, courtesy of CoinDesk’s features reporter and assistant opinion editor, Daniel Kuhn.
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Dec 23, 2022 at 9:36 p.m. UTC
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Zcash Doesn’t Need Your Trust
For years, the Electric Coin Company has been breaking new ground with zero-knowledge proofs. This year it radically improved privacy on its Zcash protocol, even as the right to use it is under attack. That’s why CEO Zooko Wilcox is one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.
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Dec 5, 2022 at 12:13 p.m. UTC
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Zcash May Be Getting Spammed but the Blockchain Is Doing Just Fine, the Company Behind It Says
Electric Coin Co., the organization behind Zcash, claims that concerns of a spam attack are mostly just fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).
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Oct 7, 2022 at 3:38 a.m. UTC
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Earlier on Thursday, Ethereum switched to a system that does away with the need for miners.
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HuobiGlobal will delist Dash (DASH), Decred (DCR), Firo (FIRO), Monero (XMR), Verge (XVG), Zcash (ZEC) Horizen (ZEN) on September 19 amid broader scrutiny of privacy tokens. (Lianhao Qu via Unsplash)
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Crypto Exchange Huobi to Delist 7 Privacy Coins, Including Zcash, Monero
The company said it is complying with regulations in different countries and regions.
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The SEC Is Getting Clearer About How It Plans to Regulate Crypto
We're reading between the lines of Grayscale's recent disclosures about SEC inquiries.
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By Nikhilesh De
Aug 31, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. UTC
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The privacy coin now allows transactions that are shielded by default, so users no longer have to opt in to hide payment details on the blockchain.
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By Christie Harkin
May 31, 2022 at 5:56 p.m. UTC
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The NSA whistleblower and privacy advocate was one of six participants in the cryptocurrency’s fabled 2016 “trusted setup” ceremony, using a pseudonym.
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Apr 27, 2022 at 8:17 p.m. UTC
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Bitcoin offers pseudonymity to users by design. But in order to be completely anonymous, you’ll need to use tools like bitcoin mixers.
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Mar 8, 2022 at 3:36 p.m. UTC
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Zcash Extends Rally Into Asian Trading Day
ZEC posted gains of 6% during Asian business hours, lifting its gain this week to 12%.
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By Sam Reynolds
Feb 2, 2022 at 9:13 a.m. UTC
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