█████ ***** THE ZEROCASH SOURCE - Truly anonymous coin ***** █████

[LiteCoinGuy]

https://z.cash/

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 Knowledge

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/07/what-you-need-to-know-about-zero-knowledge/


Zerocoin Startup Revives the Dream of Truly Anonymous Money

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/zerocoin-startup-revives-the-dream-of-truly-anonymous-money/

How Two Alt-Coins Could Shape The Future of Bitcoin

http://cryptocrimson.com/2014/04/two-alt-coins-shape-future-bitcoin/

MIT’s Madars Virza: Bitcoin Privacy Issues and How Zerocash Can Help

http://insidebitcoins.com/news/mits-madars-virza-bitcoin-privacy-issues-and-how-zerocash-can-help/30751

The First 3 Generations of Bitcoin Mixing

http://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 Bitcoin

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-02-01/news/bs-md-hopkins-bitcoin-20140201_1_virtual-currencies-bitcoin-foundation-ross-william-ulbricht


Matt Green aims to fudamentally change the way we interact

http://imgur.com/a/J6vO8#Vmo8rt9


Bitcoin Anonymity Upgrade Zerocoin To Become An Independent Cryptocurrency

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/01/13/bitcoin-anonymity-upgrade-zerocoin-to-become-its-own-cryptocurrency/


Researchers Work to Add More Anonymity to Bitcoin

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/researchers-work-to-add-more-anonymity-to-bitcoin/?_r=1


Researchers Creating an Alternative to Bitcoin

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0200000136SW


Who’s Who in Bitcoin: Zerocoin Hero Matthew Green

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/whos-who-in-bitcoin-zerocoin-hero-matthew-green


Feds Wrongly Demonize Privacy in Liberty Reserve Case

http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/feds-wrongly-demonize-privacy-in-liberty-reserve-case-1059468-1.html?zkPrintable=1&nopagination=1

Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/04/zerocoin-making-bitcoin-anonymous.html


Unlike Liberty Reserve, Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous — Yet

http://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 Untraceable

http://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 Criminal

http://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 private

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/03/bitcoin-zerocoin.html



We need anonymity to make democracy safe – Stallman talks bitcoin

http://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.story


The Civil War Inside Bitcoin: Go Anonymous or Go Mainstream?

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/10/15/115021/bitcoin


Zerocoin: Anonymous Distributed E-Cash from Bitcoin

http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/ZerocoinOakland.pdf


New Alt-ZeroCoin Faster, More Private

http://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 Challenge

http://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/cryptocurrency-policy-challenges-decentralized-revolution-panel-iv-4th-amendment


Eli Ben-Sasson - Zerocash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0o0WKDSh2M


Zerocash: improving Bitcoin using SNARKs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6qOj9ap6RM


Matthew Green at New America Foundation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTxsuVn1LFA


Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfEgrlWmu5k


ZeroCash: ZeroCoin meets SCIPR-lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7LSSE0bRRo


Cryptocurrencies: View From the Treasury

https://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 - Zerocoin

http://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 Bitcoin

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=192058

or first part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDA0kCMMIY


The Bitcoin Group #3 (Live) - Bitcoin Anonymity, Zerocoin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-78OkvEWfA

starts 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 bitcoin

http://letstalkbitcoin.com/e72-powerful-perspectives/

starts at min 59:00

Audio of Matthew Green talk at Real World Crypto

https://m.soundcloud.com/rdlmitedu/140113_0001-wav

[indiemax]

Interested in this thanks

[CoinHoarder]

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.

[LiteCoinGuy]

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... 

if you have news about Zerocoin, you can add it here.

to your question:

a post from a lead-dev.

[Brewins]

interesting reads

[CoinHoarder]

Thanks for sharing Litecoinguy. I'll link your thread on my ALT coin thread.

This is awesome news, I missed that tweet myself but admittedly I'm not big on Twitter. I'm so glad to hear this!

[candidakefyr]

very interesting,
thanks for your share!

[trell0z]

Interesting! Thx for the summary.

[Coinsy]

How and when can I buy into this?

[wizzardTim]

Wow wow !

Zerocoin! At last! Watching.

[LiteCoinGuy]

How and when can I buy into this?

the answer is laying in this topic ;-)

[LiteCoinGuy]

Thanks for sharing Litecoinguy. I'll link your thread on my ALT coin thread.

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. 

[LiteCoinGuy]

Who’s Who in Bitcoin: Zerocoin Hero Matthew Green

Bitcoin 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

[LiteCoinGuy]

Researchers Work to Add More Anonymity to Bitcoin

In my column this week, Disruptions: A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity, I noted that the Deep Web, or Dark Internet, had mushroomed in recent years because of a growing belief that it was possible to remain anonymous online.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/researchers-work-to-add-more-anonymity-to-bitcoin/?_r=1

[CryptoTramp]

I'm in....

[semisyntheticpsy]

I'm in....

Sounds good to me too

[LiteCoinGuy]

What’s next? Zerocoin

http://www.coinmonkey.com/tag/zerocoin/

[surfer43]

Will Zerocoin most likely be SHA-256, scrypt, CPU mining, or another algorithm for PoW?

[bitrebel]

Well, this excites me, too.
 

[Cygnify]

Lots of buzz around this one, lets see what amounts of it