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Private financial transactions, enabled by the Zerocoin Protocol

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@zcoinofficial Nov 13, 2018, 6:52 PM UTC

World’s first large scale blockchain based political election held on Zcoin’s blockchain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIBVucbxFD0 Over the period of 1st to the 9th of November, some of you have noticed that we had a huge surge in transactions, with hundreds to thousands of transaction…

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@zcoinofficial Jul 26, 2018, 4:02 PM UTC

What is Dandelion and how does it improve Zcoin’s privacy

Privacy in a cryptocurrency is dependent on two factors. The first and most important one is blockchain privacy. Zcoin provides blockchain privacy by using the Zerocoin protocol to make sure transact…

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@zcoinofficial Jun 19, 2018, 3:57 PM UTC

Explain Zcoin to me like I'm a 5 year old

Reuben Yap, Zcoin's Chief Operating Officer, was recently asked to explain Zcoin in a way a 5 year old would understand in an interview. This is assuming some smart and more importantly patient 5 yea…

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@zcoinofficial May 19, 2018, 9:02 AM UTC

Zcoin's Stance on the ASIC Resistance Arms War

There's been a hot debate as to whether ASIC development for any algorithm is a futile effort and that an ASIC can be developed for any algorithm. This is definitely partly true since CPUs and GPUs a…

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@zcoinofficial Mar 30, 2018, 7:46 AM UTC

Zcoin: All About Znodes

What Is a Znode? Znodes are incentivized nodes that provide support for transactions. Given that Zerocoin transactions are computationally intensive and are relatively large, it makes sense to have a…

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@zcoinofficial Mar 15, 2018, 3:45 AM UTC

Zcoin: Merkle Tree Proof, version 1.2

Introduction Merkle Tree Proof (MTP) is a Proof-of-Work algorithm designed by Alex Biryukov and Dmitry Khovratovich and detailed in the initial version of their paper, Egalitarian Computing (MTPv1).…

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@zcoinofficial Feb 24, 2018, 2:38 PM UTC

The Privacy Advantages of Zcoin

Zcoin is a privacy-centric cryptocurrency based on the Zerocoin protocol, developed by Johns Hopkins University cryptographer Matthew D. Green, Ian Miers, Christina Garman and Aviel D. Rubin Being pr…

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@zcoinofficial Feb 18, 2018, 12:17 PM UTC

Zcoin: Blockchain and IP Address Privacy

What is an IP address? An Internet Protocol (IP) address can be thought of like your home address. It uniquely identifies you on the Internet. When someone wants to send you a piece of mail or a pack…

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@zcoinofficial Aug 30, 2017, 4:15 AM UTC

An overview of blockchain privacy mechanisms and how Zerocoin in Zcoin $XZC (not Zcash) stacks up

This post will hopefully give you a brief overview of the major blockchain privacy mechanisms that are implemented in cryptocurrencies today and in particular how the Zerocoin protocol used in Zcoin…

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@zcoinofficial Aug 17, 2017, 2:57 AM UTC

ZCoin: Privacy on the Blockchain and the Linkability of Personal Information: Elements of a private cryptocurrency

We noticed many in the cryptocurrency community are confused on what it means to be a privacy coin. There are many coins in the privacy space that are claiming to be 'private' while only providing me…

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