Questions about ZCash are off topic. A peer-to-peer cryptocurrency that implements the Zerocash scheme and offers total payment confidentiality. Launched on 2016-10-28.
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What's the difference between `z-addr` and `t-addr` type addresses?
I was playing with the zcash testnet and figured there are two different types of addresses available: z and t. Is this a privacy feature?
What's the difference between z-addr and t-addr type addresses?
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Difference between Monero, Dash and Zcash
I'm curious to understand what the main differences between Monero, DASH and to-be released Zcash are. I would also like to know what is the main improvement in Zcash, when compared to Dash and Monero.
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Zcash t-addr + z-addr transactions
Is it possible to "break" the traceability of the blockchain by sending ZEC between z-addr and t-addr?
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How can a X-coin market cap go down while its value goes up?
Quoting Wikipedia, Market cap is given by the formula
MC = N × P
where N is the number of shares outstanding, and P is the closing price per share.
In the specific case of a crypto currency, one could assume that N is the amount of coins in…
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Zcash proposal to use checkpoints to verify monetary supply
Based on concerns about the trusted setup not being able to conclusively disprove the ability to create hidden inflation, Zooko recently described an idea to institute checkpoints to verify the total monetary supply at fixed moments in time. What…
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Is equihash/scrypt suitable for pooled mining?
A "sequential memory-hard" PoW scheme cannot be parallelized effectively thus I imagine you also can't distribute solving the puzzle between participants in a pool? How does that work with scrypt then - for instance how do litecoin mining pools…
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How to generate a zcash vanity address?
Is the main network address version for zcash already known? Is it possible to generate a mainnet address already?
This could allow miners to start from minute 0 to mine on a anonymous pool. The addresses can exist without the network as they are…
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What if Zcash Company turns evil?
The "Company Values" section at the Zcash website states:
we are not the controllers or the power-holders, and do not control
the mining or distribution of Zcash. Every user of Zcash contributes
to its decentralization, helping to protect it…
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Zcash - where are treestates stored?
Where are the treestates stored?
In other words, when a JoinSplit transaction is being validated, where is the anchor being checked?
A look at https://github.com/zcash/zcash/blob/master/src/primitives/block.h brings me to conclude that the…
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What information is available from the blockchains of privacy currencies?
Some currencies such as Monero and Zcash focus on protecting user privacy as much as possible. What information is available from the blockchains of these currencies?
Number of wallets? Transaction details? Anything else?
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Is it possible to create private multi-signature transactions?
Since ZCash is based on the bitcoin core it is also enabled to create multi-signature transactions by default.
ZCash now adds the possibility to create also private transactions.
But how to create private multi-signature transactions? Is it even…
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How private shilded transactions to payee address works in ZeroCash from the information point of view?
In ZeroCash they perform transactions like this. I want to unravel and understand how z-addresses work in ZCash. It shall be described simply in here and in-depth, revised here and here (older, a bit simpler). Simply put it shall be described…
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Generate a Zcash z-address paper wallet
Is there a way to generate a zcash z-address paper wallet via a javascript implementation? Or do I have to use the zcash command line software to do this?
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In Zcash, what statements do zkSNARKs prove?
Zcash uses zkSNARKs to hide transaction details. My understanding is that the verifier is anyone that maintains the blockchain. My questions are:
If I decide to send x amount of Zcash to another user, what is the statement that zkSNARKs will…
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As of 2017-09, Has there been talks or test implementations of making Litecoin anonymous / untracable like Monero or Zcash?
Being that Litecoin is more likely to implement experimental features before Bitcoin. As of today 2017-09, has there been discussions or test implementations of making Litecoin anonymous like Monero's Ring Signatures or adopt similar features like…
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