We are excited to announce that Tim Ruffing has joined Zcoin as a Cryptography Advisor. Tim is a cryptographer and blockchain researcher pursuing his PhD in computer science at Saarland…
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Zcoin is looking for additional core developers join the team to accelerate our development! Requirements: Experience with C++ Understanding of the cryptographic principles underpinning of Bitcoin 2.0 and Blockchain technologies…
What is a Trusted Setup? Zero knowledge setups offer amazing anonymity with anonymity sets exceeding thousands compared to previous anonymity schemes that typically only offer a dozen or so. One…
Zcoin (XZC) is proud to be the first coin to have a working implementation of the MTP proof of work! MTP has been launched on our testnet and there will…
We are happy to announce our official Zcoin block explorer at explorer.zcoin.io! We will also have a Chinese Zcoin block explorer that will be located closer to China to avoid…
We are pleased to welcome Saran Siriphantnon to the Zcoin team as a developer. He is currently working together with Poramin on Zcoin’s MTP implementation. Saran Siriphantnon is the CTO…
Znodes One of the key challenges with Zerocoin has been scalability both from a computational cost and also the space it occupies on the blockchain. Currently, the way Zcoin implements…
One of Zcoin’s most awaited features is the implementation of MTP which promotes egalitarian computing and allows efficient verification of memory hard proof of work. Despite recent challenges and our…
Understanding how Zerocoin works To understand the bug, we first need to explain how the Zerocoin protocol works on a high level and what minting and spending does. Minting a…
Yesterday, our team found a bug in our implementation of Zerocoin. A typographical error on a single additional character in code allowed an attacker to create Zerocoin spend transactions without…