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Hey Ed, how's Zcash doing? Since you dropped the news about you being the mysterious last ceremony participant, I only hear you talking about Bitcoin. How come? Have you abandoned your private fork?
Zero-knowledge proofs allow a sender to prove to the network that a fact is true without revealing specific details. In Zcash, this means that the sender can prove that they have enough funds to make a transaction without having to reveal their precise amount. At the same time, the receiver can verify that this fact is true without knowing the identity of the sender and the transaction amount.
In traditional cryptocurrency networks, all transaction information is public, including transaction amount, sender and receiver addresses, etc. This means that anyone can track and analyze this information to reveal the user's trading behavior and asset flow. However, Zcash utilizes the zk-SNARKs (Zero-Knowledge Verifiable Non-Interactive Parameters) protocol, which allows transactions to be kept private.
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way" Juan Ramón Jiménez
US Congress grilled Facebook over a unified profile that they contributed to with Google and twitter. What was the name of that profile they created? (I can't find it on the web anywhere. It's been scrubbed.)