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Release: 2016 Mining algorithm: unknown I want to collect some press about Zerocash, that will be released as an independent coin in 2016. "Zerocash is a new protocol that provides a privacy-preserving version of Bitcoin (or a similar currency).
Zerocash fixes an inherent weakness of Bitcoin: every user's payment history is recorded in public view on the block chain, and is thus readily available to anyone. While there are techniques to obfuscate this information, they are problematic and ineffective. Instead, in Zerocash, users may pay one another directly, via payment transactions that reveal neither the origin, destination, or amount of the payment. This is a marked improvement compared to Bitcoin (and similar decentralized digital currencies), where every payment's information is made public for the whole world to see.
Zerocash improves on an earlier protocol, Zerocoin, developed by some of the same authors, both in functionality (Zerocoin only hides a payment's origin, but not its destination or amount) and in efficiency (Zerocash transactions are less than 1KB and take less than 6ms to verify)."Authors of this project: Eli Ben-Sasson (Technion) Alessandro Chiesa (MIT) Christina Garman (Johns Hopkins University) Matthew Green (Johns Hopkins University) Ian Miers (Johns Hopkins University) Eran Tromer (Tel Aviv University) Madars Virza (MIT) I think the concept of this project is very promising and I will start with a bunch of interesting stuff: P r e s s : What You Need To Know About Zero Knowledgehttp://techcrunch.com/2015/02/07/what-you-need-to-know-about-zero-knowledge/Zerocoin Startup Revives the Dream of Truly Anonymous Moneyhttp://www.wired.com/2015/11/zerocoin-startup-revives-the-dream-of-truly-anonymous-money/How Two Alt-Coins Could Shape The Future of Bitcoinhttp://cryptocrimson.com/2014/04/two-alt-coins-shape-future-bitcoin/MIT’s Madars Virza: Bitcoin Privacy Issues and How Zerocash Can Helphttp://insidebitcoins.com/news/mits-madars-virza-bitcoin-privacy-issues-and-how-zerocash-can-help/30751The First 3 Generations of Bitcoin Mixinghttp://letstalkbitcoin.com/the-first-three-generations-of-bitcoin-mixing-technology/ Market-Based Reactions to New Bitcoin Regulation http://www.coindesk.com/market-based-reactions-new-bitcoin-regulation/Hopkins researchers are creating an alternative to Bitcoinhttp://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-02-01/news/bs-md-hopkins-bitcoin-20140201_1_virtual-currencies-bitcoin-foundation-ross-william-ulbrichtMatt Green aims to fudamentally change the way we interact http://imgur.com/a/J6vO8#Vmo8rt9Bitcoin Anonymity Upgrade Zerocoin To Become An Independent Cryptocurrencyhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/01/13/bitcoin-anonymity-upgrade-zerocoin-to-become-its-own-cryptocurrency/Researchers Work to Add More Anonymity to Bitcoinhttp://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/researchers-work-to-add-more-anonymity-to-bitcoin/?_r=1Researchers Creating an Alternative to Bitcoinhttp://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0200000136SWWho’s Who in Bitcoin: Zerocoin Hero Matthew Greenhttp://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/whos-who-in-bitcoin-zerocoin-hero-matthew-greenFeds Wrongly Demonize Privacy in Liberty Reserve Casehttp://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/feds-wrongly-demonize-privacy-in-liberty-reserve-case-1059468-1.html?zkPrintable=1&nopagination=1Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/04/zerocoin-making-bitcoin-anonymous.htmlUnlike Liberty Reserve, Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous — Yethttp://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/bitcoin-is-not-anonymous-but-it-could-be/?_r=0 'Zerocoin' Add-on For Bitcoin Could Make It Truly Anonymous And Untraceablehttp://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/12/zerocoin-add-on-for-bitcoin-could-make-it-truly-anonymous-and-untraceable/Why Bitcoin (And Other Cryptocurrencies) Will Inevitably Become Tools Of The Rich, Powerful, and Criminalhttp://www.businessinsider.com/why-bitcoin-and-other-cryptocurrencies-will-inevitably-become-tools-of-the-rich-powerful-and-criminal-2013-12
Bitcoin add-on makes your virtual purchases privatehttp://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/03/bitcoin-zerocoin.html We need anonymity to make democracy safe – Stallman talks bitcoinhttp://rt.com/news/bitcoin-not-anonymous-stallman-522/Bitcoin research is no sop to organized crime [Letter] http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-bitcoin-letter-20131204,0,3966705.storyThe Civil War Inside Bitcoin: Go Anonymous or Go Mainstream?http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/10/15/115021/bitcoinZerocoin: Anonymous Distributed E-Cash from Bitcoinhttp://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/ZerocoinOakland.pdfNew Alt-ZeroCoin Faster, More Privatehttp://letstalkbitcoin.com/new-alt-zerocoin-faster-more-private/ V i d e o : Cryptocurrency: The Policy Challenges of a Decentralized Revolution - Panel IV — The 4th Amendment Challengehttp://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/cryptocurrency-policy-challenges-decentralized-revolution-panel-iv-4th-amendmentEli Ben-Sasson - Zerocash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0o0WKDSh2MZerocash: improving Bitcoin using SNARKs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6qOj9ap6RMMatthew Green at New America Foundationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTxsuVn1LFAZerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoinhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfEgrlWmu5kZeroCash: ZeroCoin meets SCIPR-labhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7LSSE0bRRo Cryptocurrencies: View From the Treasuryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7bbDpwlTws&feature=youtu.be&t=11m49s Professor Mattew Green, creator of ZeroCash and ZeroCoin at 2014 Real World Cryptography Workshop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh6erfE9HYE#t=15 Bitcoin 2013 conference - Ian Miers - Zerocoinhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7rnE9nqhic Bitcoin Isn't Truly Anonymous, 'Zero Coin'http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x138keu_bitcoin-isn-t-truly-anonymous-zero-coin-developer-says_tech Zerocoin: Anonymous Distributed E-Cash from Bitcoinhttp://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=192058or first part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDA0kCMMIYThe Bitcoin Group #3 (Live) - Bitcoin Anonymity, Zerocoinhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-78OkvEWfAstarts at min 04:50 A u d i o :
Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn: Zcash – An Open Financial System With Privacy
https://epicenterbitcoin.com/podcast/122/
Lets talk bitcoinhttp://letstalkbitcoin.com/e72-powerful-perspectives/starts at min 59:00 Audio of Matthew Green talk at Real World Cryptohttps://m.soundcloud.com/rdlmitedu/140113_0001-wav
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December 08, 2013, 07:17:20 PM |
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Interested in this thanks ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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December 08, 2013, 07:34:05 PM Last edit: December 08, 2013, 08:05:01 PM by CoinHoarder |
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Thanks for bringing more attention to this project.
May I ask how you know that this will be released as an independent coin next year? I haven't heard of that yet, but if true it is great news!.
The government chopped off Bitcoin's balls, I'm glad someone will make this awesome idea a reality.
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December 08, 2013, 08:32:06 PM |
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Thanks for bringing more attention to this project.
May I ask how you know that this will be released as an independent coin next year? I haven't heard of that yet, but if true it is great news!.
The government chopped off Bitcoin's balls, I'm glad someone will make this awesome idea a reality.
thanks for your comments. hopefully my topic dont sinks in this bunch of shit-coin topics in this section... ![Roll Eyes](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif) if you have news about Zerocoin, you can add it here. to your question: a post from a lead-dev. ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimg5.fotos-hochladen.net%2Fuploads%2Fzerocoinnewsn7p60uy51c.jpg&t=665&c=Im7d5rYRpzJPdg)
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December 08, 2013, 08:38:11 PM |
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interesting reads
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December 08, 2013, 08:55:59 PM |
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Thanks for sharing Litecoinguy. I'll link your thread on my ALT coin thread. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) This is awesome news, I missed that tweet myself but admittedly I'm not big on Twitter. I'm so glad to hear this!
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December 08, 2013, 08:58:16 PM |
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very interesting, thanks for your share!
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December 08, 2013, 09:19:25 PM |
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Interesting! Thx for the summary.
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December 08, 2013, 09:55:45 PM |
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How and when can I buy into this?
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December 08, 2013, 10:26:59 PM |
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Wow wow !
Zerocoin! At last! Watching.
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December 09, 2013, 12:50:26 PM |
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How and when can I buy into this?
the answer is laying in this topic ;-)
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December 09, 2013, 12:50:56 PM |
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Thanks for sharing Litecoinguy. I'll link your thread on my ALT coin thread. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) This is awesome news, I missed that tweet myself but admittedly I'm not big on Twitter. I'm so glad to hear this! thanks for sharing. you are welcome. ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif)
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Who’s Who in Bitcoin: Zerocoin Hero Matthew GreenBitcoin has been called “cash with wings,” but does it really live up to this name? Cash is the most anonymous form of payment we have today, and thus it provides for two things: First, when you hand a dollar to someone, your identity doesn’t matter and it’s not needed to verify the authenticity of the transaction. Second, you can be nearly certain no one is tracking where that dollar was before you had it and where it will end up down the line. But Bitcoin possesses only one of these features.http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/whos-who-in-bitcoin-zerocoin-hero-matthew-green
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December 11, 2013, 01:50:47 PM |
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I'm in.... ![Roll Eyes](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif)
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December 11, 2013, 07:19:36 PM |
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I'm in.... ![Roll Eyes](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif) Sounds good to me too ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
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December 12, 2013, 12:41:01 AM |
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Will Zerocoin most likely be SHA-256, scrypt, CPU mining, or another algorithm for PoW?
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December 12, 2013, 12:41:16 AM |
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Well, this excites me, too. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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December 12, 2013, 01:06:41 AM |
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Lots of buzz around this one, lets see what amounts of it ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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