Zcash Crypto Coin Rank 164

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16,328,269 ZEC

24h Vol

689 BTC

1 H

-0.71 %

24 H

-2.81 %

7 d

-11.79 %

Today Zcash price in US dollars is currently 19.47 USD, and if converted to Bitcoin is 0.00031828 BTC. A total of 16,328,269 ZEC are currently circulating in the Market. Zcash price is currently experiencing a change of -2.81 %, and check here all cryptocurrency. Over the past 24 hours 0.422 M US dollars Zcash have been traded on Crypto Exchanges. Get Zcash's progress by adding it to your favourites and creating a free portfolio.

Full Name

Zcash

Symbol

ZEC

Algorithm

Equihash

BTC Price

0.00031828 BTC

BTC Market

5,197 BTC

BTC 24h Vol

689 BTC

Total Coins Mined

16,328,269 ZEC

-0.71 %

24h

-2.81 %

-11.79 %

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Zcash

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Zcash

Description

ZCash is a privacy driven cryptocurrency. It uses the Equihash as an algorithm, which is an asymmetric memory-hard Proof of Work algorithm based on the generalized birthday problem. It relies on high RAM requirements to bottleneck the generation of proofs and making ASIC development unfeasible.

ZCash uses zero-knowledge Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge (zk-SNARKs) to ensure that all information (sender, reciever, ammount) is encrypted, without the possibility of double-spending. The only information that is revealed regarding transactions is the time in which they take place.

Block explorer data from https://explorer.zcha.in/

Technology

zk-SNARKs

The Basic

Zcash is the first widespread application of zk-SNARKs, a novel form of zero-knowledge cryptography. The strong privacy guarantee of Zcash is derived from the fact that shielded transactions in Zcash can be fully encrypted on the blockchain, yet still be verified as valid under the network’s consensus rules by using zk-SNARK proofs.

The acronym zk-SNARK stands for “Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge,” and refers to a proof construction where one can prove possession of certain information, e.g. a secret key, without revealing that information, and without any interaction between the prover and verifier.

“Zero-knowledge” proofs allow one party (the prover) to prove to another (the verifier) that a statement is true, without revealing any information beyond the validity of the statement itself. For example, given the hash of a random number, the prover could convince the verifier that there indeed exists a number with this hash value, without revealing what it is.

Application to ZCASH

In order to have zero-knowledge privacy in Zcash, the function determining the validity of a transaction according to the network’s consensus rules must return the answer of whether the transaction is valid or not, without revealing any of the information it performed the calculations on. This is done by encoding some of the network's consensus rules in zk-SNARKs. At a high level, zk-SNARKs work by first turning what you want to prove into an equivalent form about knowing a solution to some algebraic equations. In the following section, we give a brief overview of how the rules for determining a valid transaction get transformed into equations that can then be evaluated on a candidate solution without revealing any sensitive information to the parties verifying the equations.

Features

Privacy Enhanced

A decentralized and open-source cryptocurrency that provides strong privacy protections. If Bitcoin is like http for money, Zcash is https—a secure transport layer.