Over the period of 1st to the 9th of November, some of you have noticed that we had a huge surge in transactions, with hundreds to thousands of transactions being posted each block on Zcoin’s blockchain.

Privacy in a cryptocurrency is dependent on two factors. The first and most important one is blockchain privacy. Zcoin provides blockchain privacy by using the Zerocoin protocol to make sure transactions

Reuben Yap, Zcoin's Chief Operating Officer, was recently asked to explain Zcoin in a way a 5 year old would understand in an interview. This is assuming some smart and more importantly patient 5

There's been a hot debate as to whether ASIC development for any algorithm is a futile effort and that an ASIC can be developed for any algorithm. This is definitely partly true since CPUs and GPUs are

What Is a Znode? Znodes are incentivized nodes that provide support for transactions. Given that Zerocoin transactions are computationally intensive and are relatively large, it makes sense to have a layer

Introduction Merkle Tree Proof (MTP) is a Proof-of-Work algorithm designed by Alex Biryukov and Dmitry Khovratovich and detailed in the initial version of their paper, Egalitarian Computing (MTPv1). The

Zcoin is a privacy-centric cryptocurrency based on the Zerocoin protocol, developed by Johns Hopkins University cryptographer Matthew D. Green, Ian Miers, Christina Garman and Aviel D. Rubin Being

What is an IP address? An Internet Protocol (IP) address can be thought of like your home address. It uniquely identifies you on the Internet. When someone wants to send you a piece of mail or a package,

This post will hopefully give you a brief overview of the major blockchain privacy mechanisms that are implemented in cryptocurrencies today and in particular how the Zerocoin protocol used in Zcoin stacks

We noticed many in the cryptocurrency community are confused on what it means to be a privacy coin. There are many coins in the privacy space that are claiming to be 'private' while only providing mere

Hi Steemit ! Effective Now, until the end of March GMT, we will be rewarding free XZC to those who retweet @zcoinofficial posts on Twitter. Tweets can be retweeted manually or through IFTTT using this

Hi Steemit - We bring you a progress update on our newest development, MTP (Merkle Tree Proof). MTP is an amazing new mining algorithm that is high performance, high security and promotes egalitarian

Hi Steemit -   This is our first official post and we are excited to be joining this diverse and growing community.  Here is a little information to introduce ourselves for those that may not