Privacy Coin Zcash Makes Its Ethereum ‘Wrapped’ Debut With Tokensoft and Anch...
WZEC is the first asset to be launched by “Wrapped,” a partnership between Ethereum tokenizers Tokensoft and qualified custodian Anchorage.
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Per a Forbes exclusive, activist Edward Snowden revealed his participation in a ceremony that led to the creation of the privacy coin Zcash. Developed by the Electric Coin Company (ECC), the privacy coin was deployed in 2016 in a secret ceremony with the aid of 6 individuals. Related Reading | New York Prosecutors Present Clear Legal […]
An exchange on X between Polygon’s CTO Mudit Gupta and Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox reignited a long-simmering debate over whether privacy-preserving shielded pools can be perfectly audited — and, by extension, whether ZEC’s 21 million cap can be trusted under all conceivable failure modes. The dispute hinged on a familiar fault line in privacy-coin design: […]
Grayscale has filed to convert its Zcash Trust into a spot exchange-traded fund, setting up a potential first for regulated exposure to a privacy coin in the U.S. ETF market. If approved and listed, the product would give investors exchange-traded access to ZEC without requiring them to custody the asset directly. The proposed ETF would […]
Zcash encounters technical problems, Mintcoin proves controversial, and BipCoin makes its debut. Want to catch up on your latest altcoin news? Read the stories below. ZCASH. Zcash, the latest addition to the world of altcoins, has encountered a bug that prevents private transactions. The official website states: “There is one known bug, which causes private transactions (those in which all of the inputs and outputs are shielded addresses) not to get mined. We’re going to release v1.0.1 shortly to fix it.” Funds sent to “t” addresses can be processed, while “z” addresses are out of the....
Zcash has been giving investors some relatively mixed signals, making crypto-enthusiasts a little unsure of where they stand. Following the digital currency’s recent launch, trading on Poloniex shot to explosive records, and the price of Zcash reached approximately $2 million per coin, an incredible improvement over the mere $1,000 investors were paying near the beginning. Matthew Green, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University who began working on Zcash three years ago, explained some of the motivation behind the cryptocurrency’s birth: “The basic story is that we have been....