Nathan Wilcox's guest appearances

Nathan Wilcox

Finding Genius Podcast

Blockchain – Software Engineering Daily

Software Daily

Priv8 Podcast

Bill Barhydt

Hedera Hashgraph

Joey Krug

Henri Pihkala

Peter Van Valkenburgh

Andreas Antonopoulos

Stephen Blum

Emin Gün Sirer

Jameson Lopp

Roger Ver

Ken Seiff

Steve McCloskey

Hudson Jameson

Steven Kotler

Ross Taylor

OwlTail

Go down the rabbit hole with Nathan Wilcox, CTO of Electric Coin Company, the inventors of Zcash, empowering people with economic freedom. We take a deep dive into the next wave of defi, why privacy is key to crypto adoption and the benefits &amp; risks of decentralization.

Go down the rabbit hole with Nathan Wilcox, CTO of Electric Coin Company, the inventors of Zcash, empowering people with economic freedom. We take a deep dive into the next wave of defi, why privacy is key to crypto adoption and the benefits &amp; risks of decentralization.

Why Privacy and Crypto is Key to Economic Freedom with Nathan Wilcox

Nathan Wilcox, CTO of Zcash, discusses the guiding principle behind Zcash, the pros and cons of using it, and its similarity to Bitcoin. All coins are created equal—that’s the motto of Zcash. With Bitcoin, the sender, recipient, and transaction amount are visible in the blockchain, meaning that with enough time and data, the history of individual coins can be traced back through its hops. None of these are visible with Zcash, which gives its users complete privacy. Transactions can still be verified, even without this information, using a zero-knowledge proof called a ZK SNARK. In this way, all that is ever known about coins is their value, making your money fully fungible and private.

Nathan Wilcox, CTO of Zcash – BRINGING FUNGIBILITY TO CRYPTOCURRENCY BY UNLINKING COINS FROM BLOCKCHAIN HISTORY

In bitcoin, every transaction in the shared ledger has the sender, recipient, and value. This ledger gets appended infinitely and is shared within a peer-to-peer network. Zcash is a cryptocurrency with all the features of bitcoin, plus encrypted transactions. The sender, recipient, and value fields are all encrypted. If bitcoin is HTTP, Zcash is like HTTPS, a secure transport layer. Nathan Wilcox works on Zcash, and in this episode we discuss why an encrypted version of bitcoin is useful, how mining works, and how Zcash the company is structured. Nathan also gives some context for the current state of the bitcoin community, and where Zcash fits in. The post Zcash with Nathan Wilcox appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

In bitcoin, every transaction in the shared ledger has the sender, recipient, and value. This ledger gets appended infinitely and is shared within a peer-to-peer network. Zcash is a cryptocurrency with all the features of bitcoin, plus encrypted transactions. The sender, recipient, and value fields are all encrypted. If bitcoin is HTTP, Zcash is like HTTPS, a secure transport layer. Nathan Wilcox works on Zcash, and in this episode we discuss why an encrypted version of bitcoin is useful, how mining works, and how Zcash the company is structured. Nathan also gives some context for the current state of the bitcoin community, and where Zcash fits in. The post <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/03/23/zcash-with-nathan-wilcox/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zcash with Nathan Wilcox</a> appeared first on <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Software Engineering Daily</a>.

Zcash with Nathan Wilcox