Tag: ZK-snark
Horizen Review: Complete Overview of the ZEN Privacy Crypto
There are a lot of privacy coins currently on the market. All offering unique and supposedly revolutionary technology. Horizen (ZEN) is one of those. This fork-of-a-fork cryptocurrency used to be called Zencash until a rebranding in 2018. However, this was...
3 Real World Applications of Zero Knowledge Proofs
Applying cutting-edge technology can be extremely challenging, especially when the technology itself is not trivial to explain. It is also much harder to raise awareness for technology that is extremely complex and highly theoretical. And, in order for the adoption...
ZCash Sapling Upgrade: Everything You Need to Know
Sapling is one of the most exciting upgrades to the ZCash protocol to date. Set to occur in late October of 2018, Sapling will introduce a number of improvements to the process by which shielded transactions operate. It is slated...
What is ZCash? Complete Beginners Guide to ZEC
What is ZCash exactly? You will probably have heard a great deal about the cryptocurrency and its supposed privacy benefits. However, when you dug deeper into the technology, you were greeted with a whole host of complicated concepts. This is...
ZenCash (ZEN) Review: The Complete Beginners Guide
ZenCash is a relatively new privacy coin that is garnering a great deal of attention lately. It also comes at a time when a privacy concious cryptocurrencies are all the rage. We have seen a number of other coins being...
Zero Knowledge Proofs & zkSNARKs: Beginners Guide
Zero-knowledge proofs are cryptographic alchemy whose value lies in their seemingly paradoxical property of proving a statement without revealing anything about it. In a manner of speaking, a verifier given a zero-knowledge proof is supposed to be told by God...
DeepOnion: Review of the Latest Privacy Coin Integrated with Tor
For those users who are particularly concerned about online privacy, traditional cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are gaining too much scrutiny. DeepOnion is one of a range of privacy concious cryptocurrencies that aims to empower users who do not want their...
Could Monero Ever Challenge Bitcoin? The Case for Privacy Coins
When Bitcoin was first envisioned and developed by Satoshi Nakamoto, the goal was to create a truly decentralised, anonymous and secure digital currency. The anonymity point was a strong one as people valued privacy. Due to the fact that Bitcoin...
JPMorgan’s Quorum Blockchain Integrates ZK-Snark Technology
The team at Zcash, the privacy focused cryptocurrency have announced that they have successfully integrated their zero-knowledge security layer (ZSL) into JP Morgan’s enterprise blockchain, Quorum. ZCash was the first cryptocurrency to make use of privacy enhancing technology called zk-snarks....
How Could ZK-Starks make ZCash Truly Private
Many Cryptographers are in search of the Holy Grail of privacy. They are looking for a method of sending crypto currency that is truly private and trust less. This is of course easier said than done. There are two competing...