Coinbase Exploring Zcash
Coinbase provides an important, regulated on-ramp to utilizing Zcash’s technology for over 20 million consumers. We applaud the Coinbase decision […]
DFS Authorizes Gemini Trust Company to Provide Additional Virtual Currency Products and Services
Gemini is the First Qualified Custodian and Exchange to Receive DFS Approval to Offer Trading of Emerging Digital Currency Zcash […]
Gemini Is Now the World’s First Licensed Zcash Exchange!
We are excited to announce support for Zcash trading and custody. Starting on Saturday, May 19th at 9:30am EDT customers […]
Circle Invest Welcomes Zcash
A little over a month ago, we opened up access and expanded availability of our newest product Circle Invest. We […]
Unchained – Zcash’s Zooko Wilcox on Why He Believes Privacy Coins Will Be Used More for Good Than Bad
Zooko Wilcox, the founder and CEO of the Zcash company, explains why he wanted to create the privacy coin Zcash, […]
Fortune Magazine – Can This Man Build a Better Bitcoin?
Two years ago, Bryce “Zooko” Wilcox was running a struggling startup and sleeping in his car. Today he’s collaborating with […]
MIT Technology Review – A Mind-Bending Cryptographic Trick Promises to Take Blockchains Mainstream
Cryptographers have researched zero-knowledge proofs for two decades, but the technique is only just now poised to redefine the concept […]
Fortune – One of the World’s Biggest Bitcoin Exchanges Just Added a New Cryptocurrency
Based in South Korea, Bithumb listed Zcash, a privacy-centric digital money based on a blockchain, a public accounting ledger that […]
CoinDesk – Zcash Audit Finds No Serious Issues in Launch Ceremony Security
If someone were to get their hands on a complete copy of all the shards, it would enable them to […]
CoinDesk – Better, Faster zk-SNARKs: Zcash Developers Release New Privacy Tech
Zcash engineer Sean Bowe and cryptographers Matthew Green and Ian Miers (all of whom also work for the for-profit Zcash […]
Radiolab – The Ceremony
Last November, journalist Morgen Peck showed up at her friend Molly Webster’s apartment in Brooklyn, told her to take her […]
Forbes – JPMorgan Chase To Integrate Zcash Technology To Its Enterprise Blockchain Platform
“By adding the Zero-knowledge Security Layer into Quorum, we are able to explore how state of the art cryptographic privacy […]
American Banker – Cheat sheet: The trade-offs of blockchain privacy tools
As banks explore the potential of blockchains, they’ve been quick to surmise that the technology, as it was originally designed, […]
The New York Times – Zcash, a Harder-to-Trace Virtual Currency, Generates Price Frenzy
Each Bitcoin user has an address, made up of letters and numbers, and the authorities are often able to link […]
The Economist – Known Unknown: Another crypto-currency is born
Zcash’s code is also open-source, but its inventors have formed a company and accepted money from investors. In addition, 10% […]
“Privacy is an essential part of cryptocurrency security, and despite some initial mistaken beliefs to the contrary, Bitcoin alone doesn’t provide that. Zcash is the first cryptocurrency that provides the level of privacy users deserve and expect.”
“Privacy is crucial to modern business. If Apple and Samsung can view each other’s financial transactions, the system is not secure. Zcash provides that secure, neutral ground for commerce.”
ConsenSys Media – What does Zcash mean for Ethereum?
Many of us at ConsenSys believe the Ethereum community should be excited about the launch of Zcash and the incredible […]
American Banker – How Zcash Tries to Balance Privacy, Transparency in Blockchain
For banks intrigued by blockchains but leery of volatile, decentralized digital currencies, Wilcox’s company, Zcash Electric Coin Co., is developing […]
Tech Crunch – weekly column by Jon Evans
Zcash is — like Ethereum was — a fundamental technological advance, not just a new project using the same technology. […]
Bloomberg – Bitcoin Isn’t Anonymous Enough
Anonymity achieves [fungibility] by preventing merchants or service providers from seeing any blemishes that might prevent them from honoring a […]
spectrum.ieee.org – Zcash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency
There are strictly technical considerations that make strong privacy a necessary feature in a digital currency. Ideally, for the system […]
bitcoinmagazine.com – Zcash CEO Zooko Discusses Privacy and Efficiency Tradeoffs vs the Bitcoin Blockchain
It’s clear that the availability of a truly anonymous cash system is desired by the vast majority of the digital […]
“The Zcash team is doing much needed work. Protocols like this are the ideal building block for p2p electronic cash.”
“Zcash is an important project being worked on by a very talented team.”
Epicenter Bitcoin Podcast – Zooko Wilcox: Zcash – An Open Financial System With Privacy
We are doing Bitcoin + privacy. Because nothing else has the empirical evidence of having worked after being under attack […]
Wired.com – Zcash, an Untraceable Bitcoin Alternative, Launches in Alpha
Bitcoin may have become the currency of choice for the anonymity-loving Internet underground. But it’s never been anonymous enough for […]
“Bitcoin was built using decades-old cryptography; I’m excited to see what is possible when a great team applies the latest advances to create a better digital cash.”
“There is a strong need for research into better fungibility in digital currency systems, and Zcash is an ambitious project that goes far beyond the incremental improvements worked on elsewhere.”
coinjournal.net – Longtime Cypherpunk Zooko Warns Bitcoin Community About Overconfidence
Bitcoin is so special and does something that nothing else does, and therefore, we can take our time or not […]
bitcoinmagazine.com – Zcash, a Privacy-Focused Alternative to Bitcoin, Launches Technology Preview
The Zerocash protocol has been considered one of the most promising technologies for putting privacy back into the Bitcoin equation. […]
“Bitcoin is HTTP for money; Zcash is HTTPS.”
“The Zcash team has been been working away quietly and diligently on something very, very important: fully private and fungible digital cash.”
thenextweb.com – Zcash is an untraceable Bitcoin alternative with some heavy hitters backing it
Bitcoin is dead. Or, not. We don’t know what the future holds, but what we do know is the pioneer […]
“Technically, it’s a challenge to have fungibility in a shared blockchain, yet money requires fungibility. It’s exciting to see the Zcash team working toward adding real fungibility to blockchains—and with the strength and talent of this team, this is only the tip of the iceberg.”
“Privacy is a very important challenge with current blockchain technology, but existing solutions like private blockchains do not really solve the problem. The technology behind Zcash does.”
cryptocoinsnews.com – Zcash Launches in Alpha
In the game of anonymity, cryptocurrency fans have embraced Bitcoin and the blockchain technology which drives it. The technology does […]
“As much as people now love the idea and the benefits of blockchain technology, time and time again they bring up two issues that blockchains currently do not address: scalability and privacy. I believe that the technology that Zcash is working on is currently the best in class in its ability to address the privacy challenge.”
“I think the right to privacy is important in all aspects of life, including financial transactions, and Zcash is the ultimate currency for privacy.”
fastcompany.com – New Bitcoin Rival Currency Will Offer More Anonymity, Say Its Creators
The added privacy could make Zcash a more viable choice for financial institutions and consumers than other cryptocurrencies.
“Zcash is strongest where Bitcoin is weakest; It gives users the easy ability to maintain their financial privacy. If anything can compete with Bitcoin, it will be on this front.”
“The fully private Zcash is to digital currencies what Bitcoin was to money—a monumental innovation. Something truly comparable to physical cash has been born online.”
cointelegraph.com – Zcash Brings More Privacy Than Bitcoin
Zcash, even though it is still currently in the testing phase, seems like it could become the leader in this […]
“Zcash is pursuing a noble goal – retaining privacy for free citizens in an age of mass surveillance. ShapeShift has invested proactively in only two upcoming digital assets, and Zcash is one of them. We’re honored to support Zooko and the outstanding team behind this project.”
“I invested in Zcash because of the impressive team pushing the boundaries of crypto and because Privacy is one of building blocks of Freedom.”
Tech Crunch – Zcash, Blockstack, and appcoins, oh my!
Zcash is — like Ethereum was — a fundamental technological advance, not just a new project using the same technology. […]