As you’ve noticed, I tend to write from time to time on my experiences with cryptocurrencies. By now you may have understood that my interest is mainly with the coins that support the equihash algorithm (ASIC resistant, GPU-based mining) such as ZCash and its derivates, ZClassic and ZenCash. The challenges
My regular readers or twitter followers may have noticed that besides data center topics, I talk about cryptocurrencies from time to time. I’ve written a beginner’s introduction about zCash mining earlier in 2017, and would now like to talk about Zencash, a very new cryptocurrency that went live on 30-May-17. The network
Note: this article has been updated on 19-Apr-17. zCash is a new decentralised digital cryptocurrency which aims to provide better privacy of transactions by allowing either transparent addresses (t-addresses) or zero-knowledge proof addresses (z-addresses). While it uses a part of BitCoin’s original code, it’s been heavily modified by the development team. zCash