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The Long Term Zcash Market Capitalization AnalysisA better way to pay In addition to using Zcash to pay friends, family and service providers, you can use Zcash at your favorite stores or online merchants. Trusted technology, growing adoption Zcash was launched by one of the most respected technical teams in the world. Zcash is the 'https of blockchains,' protecting your freedom to save and spend as you like. Zcash was the first project to implement zk-SNARKs, a novel form of zero-knowledge cryptography that gives its users the strongest privacy available in any digital currency. Multiple, independent organizations are funded to innovate on Zcash. Zcash is already available on top exchanges, digital wallets and a growing number of applications.
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by noam_chom
XHV is ready for a breakout!Here we see a chart of XHV Haven protocol on the weekly vs BTC. As we can see, every time price action gets near the 21 week moving average (yellow line) and gets above it, a vertical move follows. I have also included the Vortex indicator (VI) and the Money flow indictor (MFI) both on the bottom of the chart. The VI; When ever the blue closes the distance and moves above the magenta line a vertical move follows. The MFI When ever the money flow is above 50 (drawn green line) a vertical move follows. Nothing is guaranteed but when all three of these line up it creates confluence which are much stronger together as indicators. Thanks for looking Please feel free to post questions or comments down below.
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by WeAreSat0shi
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DERO RisingDero is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that aims to provide fast, secure and anonymous transactions utilizing innovative blockchain technologies. The focus is on enhanced Privacy and Smart Contracts while maintaining the transparency and security of the blockchain. DERO is the first crypto project to combine a Proof of Work blockchain with a DAG block structure and fully anonymous transactions based on Homomorphic Encryption. DERO will be the first Homomorphic Encryption based blockchain to have smart contracts on its native chain without any extra layers or secondary blockchains. At present DERO has Smart Contracts on old CryptoNote protocol testnet. For a closer look at the salient features of the DERO project: github.com Price Action: DERO hit a recent low of $3.75 on 10 March and surged 154% in the following weeks to hit a 2023 high of $9.54. It has now retraced 26% since then and has found support around the 50 day Simple Moving Average (SMA) ie. $7.11 This could be an interesting time to accumulate DERO for the next bull-run.
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by rzinho
Zcash vs Bitcoin begins Total Capitulation Wall ZEC BTC PrivacyThe vulnerabilities, discovered by Halborn in a 2022 audit of Dogecoin, were first disclosed to ECC and contributors to other affected networks on Feb. 14, and more details were relayed in a Feb. 17 call. ECC initiated our security process immediately and began coordinating with ZecSec.com, the independent Zcash-community-funded security team, and with Zcash Foundation, who analyzed the impact on zebrad, its own implementation of a Zcash node. We also reached out to Horizen, Komodo, and other teams with whom we have disclosure agreements. Within days, we had zcashd patches ready for third-party testing, but the public releases have been delayed to allow other projects time to complete their own remediations and to allow for coordinated comms, given the sensitive nature. Halborn found that the bugs could allow an attacker to utilize peer-to-peer network messages to fill the memory of a node and crash it. By crashing other people’s mining nodes, an attacker could potentially reduce, by around one half, the amount of hashpower they would need to mount a 51% attack on the Zcash network. A successful 51% attack could potentially be used to execute a double-spend attack, which could result in users who received transactions from the attackers losing their funds. We have no reason to believe that the Zcash network is currently vulnerable to a 51% attack — with or without the “one half discount” on the attack cost — but out of an abundance of caution, we’ve hardened the zcashd nodes so that they cannot be crashed using this bug.
by noam_chom
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Zcash ZEC to $100 in 2023: battle for After-Life Privacy cryptoRecursive Proof Composition without a Trusted Setup Sean Bowe1 , Jack Grigg1 , and Daira Hopwood1 1 Electric Coin Company {sean,jack,daira}@electriccoin.co electriccoin.co Abstract. Non-interactive arguments of knowledge are powerful cryptographic tools that can be used to demonstrate the faithful execution of arbitrary computations with publicly verifiable proofs. Increasingly efficient protocols have been described in recent years, with verification time and/or communication complexity that is sublinear in the size of the computation being described. These efficiencies can be exploited to realize recursive proof composition: the concept of proofs that attest to the correctness of other instances of themselves, thereby allowing large computational effort to be incrementally verified. All previously known realizations of recursive proof composition have required a trusted setup and cycles of expensive pairing-friendly elliptic curves. We obtain and implement Halo, the first practical example of recursive proof composition without a trusted setup, using the discrete log assumption over normal cycles of elliptic curves. In the process we develop several novel techniques that may be of independent interest. Keywords: recursive proofs · incrementally verifiable computation · zero knowledge
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by noam_chom
Zcash ZEC VS BTC Bitcoin - Altseason Breakout Strategy - PrivacyThe possible use cases are as numerous as with any Defi system. One example might be the ability to purchase an NFT using shielded ZEC, allowing the purchaser privacy by shielding onlookers from prior transactions and ZEC holdings. Another example use case might be the ability to loan ZEC for yield where the originator of the loan remains private. Does this mean ZEC is actively pursuing to become an IBC-compatible Cosmos Zone? On a similar note, KEEP Network is soon launching a NuCypher collaborative solution for tBTC v2. Considering Matt’s @mhluongo past activity in here, is there a tZEC solution that’s actively being researched/built at the moment?
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by noam_chom
Bottom Reversal for Zcash vs Ethereum: Rally back to 1:1A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform Satoshi Nakamoto's development of Bitcoin in 2009 has often been hailed as a radical development in money and currency, being the first example of a digital asset which simultaneously has no backing or "intrinsic value" and no centralized issuer or controller. However, another, arguably more important, part of the Bitcoin experiment is the underlying blockchain technology as a tool of distributed consensus, and attention is rapidly starting to shift to this other aspect of Bitcoin. Commonly cited alternative applications of blockchain technology include using on-blockchain digital assets to represent custom currencies and financial instruments ("colored coins"), the ownership of an underlying physical device ("smart property"), non-fungible assets such as domain names ("Namecoin"), as well as more complex applications involving having digital assets being directly controlled by a piece of code implementing arbitrary rules ("smart contracts") or even blockchain-based "decentralized autonomous organizations" (DAOs). What Ethereum intends to provide is a blockchain with a built-in fully fledged Turing-complete programming language that can be used to create "contracts" that can be used to encode arbitrary state transition functions, allowing users to create any of the systems described above, as well as many others that we have not yet imagined, simply by writing up the logic in a few lines of code.
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by noam_chom
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Would You Short This Chart?If you would, you would be selling BTC and buying XMR! It's an inverted chart. It looks a bit like most assets markets did 6 months ago, and I thought flipping the chart would make it easier to see. Maybe we have a fundamental reason to care about private transactions during these weird times? Or perhaps just a timing coincidence. The fork is also August 13th. What do you think? BTC reigns supreme? We go sideways a bit more? Full on breakdown? Thanks for taking a look, and don't forget to hedge your bets!
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by fringe_chartist
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XMRBTC Bars Pattern IdeaIf we duplicate the rest of the current corrective cycle through the bars pattern with similar geometry, it breaks out of the 5 year resistance! Not saying it will happen but it is intriguing. Similar ideas have worked. Additionally, it looks like we could still face 20% downside against BTC before the potential resistance break. What do you think? Will the XMR 5 year bear trend continue or will we get a breakout? Thanks for taking a look. Good luck and don't forget to hedge your bets!
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by fringe_chartist
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Zcash vs Bitcoin has Death Cross Impending or Mega RallyFoundational upgrade delivered without causing a network or market crisis. This is now a potential green-light for Zcash to continue to outperform against Bitcoin If the local levels are rejected during rally attempts (003500 and 004000 namely) then this will move much lower toward 002000 electriccoin.co Zcash Network Upgrade 5 (NU5) activated on mainnet today, May 31. It is the most important milestone for Zcash since the cryptocurrency launched in 2016 — and as our Electric Coin Co. (ECC) CEO Zooko Wilcox put it, “an historic step forward for human society.” NU5, the first major upgrade since November 2020, includes the launch of the Orchard shielded payment protocol, utilizing the Halo proving system to remove reliance on complex setup ceremonies. The efficiencies built into this upgrade make possible — for the first time ever — private, trustless digital cash payments on mobile phones. Halo also paves the way for increased interoperability by providing a system that could unlock private cross-chain proofs at scale.
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by noam_chom
Zcash ZEC Crisis Continues. Liquidity x Price StalledHalo is coming soon, but nobody cares, nobody knows, nobody has money to invest for Zcash Among the features included in the next Zcash network upgrade is Unified Addresses. The unified address (UA) is a future-proof Zcash address format that improves usability, increases the ease of interoperability, and supports shielding Zcash by default. In this post, we will explain the benefits of unified addresses, how they work and how they fit within the broader Zcash ecosystem. Background Zcash is always improving — implementing cutting-edge cryptography with secure, professional-grade code. As Zcash evolves, new value pools are introduced that offer better features and benefits. This was the case when Zcash upgraded from Sprout to Sapling, and it will be the case when Zcash upgrades from Sapling to Orchard. Multiple address types can negatively impact the user experience. They are not unique to Zcash; in fact, many protocols face this challenge, including Bitcoin. This is because certain protocol improvements (such as SegWit in Bitcoin) require a new address format. UAs make Zcash easier to use by removing the complexity of multiple address types. This simplifies the user experience — no more juggling addresses — and increases interoperability between shielded-only applications and transparent-only applications. If a wallet supports auto-shielding (a new feature included in Halo Arc), their users can be confident that their funds will be shielded by default and stored in the latest shielded pool. UAs will also make network upgrades easier because Zcash can iterate quickly without introducing new address types — solving a huge problem faced by many protocols today. The single-address standard will also advance use cases related to Layer 2, DeFi and interoperability, because it will be easier to build applications and tools for Zcash. What are UAs? Unified addresses are generated from a set of multiple Zcash address types (i.e., transparent, Sapling and Orchard). Think of unified addresses like a universal travel adapter that lets you plug into different sockets. They make it easy for wallets to migrate funds to the latest shielded pool while gradually deprecating older technology. With unified addresses, wallets will default to moving coins to the latest shielded pool supported by the wallet. These features, auto-migration and auto-shielding, are part of ECC’s Halo Arc product suite. With the upcoming Orchard upgrade, there will not be a stand-alone Orchard address. Instead, users will access the Orchard shielded pool through a unified address.
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by noam_chom
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Red-Line Zcash Pump June 1st or permanent Rekt Asset What are the economics of Zcash? Zcash's monetary base is the same as Bitcoin's — a fixed supply of 21 million Zcash currency units (ZEC). Every 75 seconds, a new block is mined to the Zcash blockchain and a block reward of 3.125 ZEC comes into circulation. The amount of the block reward cuts in half about every four years until all 21 million ZEC are in circulation. Zcash inflation almost precisely mimics that of Bitcoin. It’s important to note that as new coins are created inflation goes down, and at each halvening the rate drops significantly. As of the Canopy activation, 20% of the Zcash block reward is distributed to a Community Development Fund. For more information about distribution, see the Funding, Incentives, and Governance blog post. How can we determine the amount of ZEC in circulation within transparent and shielded pools? How does Zcash prevent counterfeiting? Zcash miners validate every on-chain transaction. Transactions that involve a shielded address (either sending or receiving) come with a zero-knowledge proof. The zero-knowledge proof ensures that the transaction doesn't violate the "conservation-of-money" rule (i.e. a proof that the money coming out of the transaction is less than or equal to the money going into the transaction). ECC uses Turnstiles as a method of auditing the monetary base in Zcash’s shielded pools. Is Zcash protected against quantum computers? Zcash is better-protected against future (hypothetical) quantum computers than almost any alternative, primarily due to the fact that Zcash addresses ("public keys") do not get posted on the blockchain. Scientists at the Electric Coin Co., and in academia, are actively researching postquantum-secure alternatives to any affected cryptographic components. Members of the community plan to monitor developments in postquantum-secure components, and if/when they are mature and practical, update the Zcash protocol to use them. What is a zero-knowledge proof? How does Zcash integrate it? Zero knowledge proofs are a scientific breakthrough in the field of cryptography: they allow you to prove that a statement is true without revealing the statement itself. Think about this example: if you want to prove you are old enough to drink alcohol, you generally have to show your ID card which reveals a lot of information about you beyond just your age. Your ID card can reveal your address, your face, your height - all of that has nothing to do with your age. A zero-knowledge proof could let you prove that you are old enough to enjoy a cold beer and only that. Zcash uses a particular type of zero-knowledge proof called zk-SNARKs (or "zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge"). These zk-SNARKs are used in any transactions that involve shielded addresses. Dive deeper into zk-SNARKs and how they work in Zcash on the explainer page. What mining algorithm does Zcash use? Zcash currently uses Equihash as the proof-of-work for block mining in Zcash. Equihash is a proof-of-work algorithm devised by Alex Biryukov and Dmitry Khovratovich. It is based on a computer science and cryptography concept called the Generalized Birthday Problem. As of May 2018, Zcash's Equihash parameters have been implemented in custom hardware ("ASIC") miners. ECC is closely monitoring the effectiveness of alternative consensus algorithms such as PoS and will continue to evaluate as part of our long-term roadmap to increase scalability and sustainability. What are the general characteristics of a Zcash block? Average block time: 1.25 minutes (75 seconds) Maximum block size: 2MB Block Reward: currently 6.25, 3.125 after November 18, 2020 Each 4 year period, the ZEC creation amount will halve (from 12.5 to 6.25 to 3.125 to 1.5625 and so on).
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by noam_chom
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