Privacy Infrastructure for the Public Good
As we often remind you, the Zcash Foundation’s mission is to build and support privacy infrastructure for the public good. What does that mean in practice? Can a cryptocurrency like Zcash be considered infrastructure? Well, yes. A cryptocurrency is a living network, sustained by miners with their server racks, users with their nodes, developers who write the […]
A Cypherpunk Privacy Reading List
Privacy matters, as a value and a goal. It matters deeply — even existentially. People often say that privacy is a human right. But why? What makes it so important? Protecting your privacy can be as simple as closing the door. No one campaigns against the existence of solid wood. But usually it’s not quite that […]
Blockchain Privacy: Equal Parts Theory and Practice
Ian Miers is a postdoc at Cornell Tech and a member of the Zcash Foundation Board of Directors. He helped create Zcash and co-authored the Zerocoin and Zerocash papers that were its precursors. In 2018, at Scaling Bitcoin and Devcon4, Miers gave talks about the privacy-violating attacks that are possible against decoy-based systems. The essay below is based on those […]