🔬 Zcash Under The Microscope — Issue No. 5
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The Zcash network successfully completed its first hardfork, coinciding with Zcon0, the first conference for the Zcash community. The upgrade sets the network up for more dramatic improvements in the future. Link.Zcash is well regarded in the technical community as one of the leading "privacy coins," that is, cryptocurrencies where transaction histories are shielded and truly anonymous, rather than pseudonymous. If you're curious about how this technology works, check out Linda Xie's canonical introduction. Link.
The upgrade to Zcash comes at a time when privacy coins are receiving new, though unsurprising, scrutiny from the U.S. Government. Link.