ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency

Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by philfrasty on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:38PM (#12790421)

Anyone else finds naming important for adoption? Bitcoin sounds pretty elegant to the regular Joey IMO but „ZCash“...I mean...awful. Well lets hope for a rebrand later.

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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:51PM (#12790545)

Most villains have no problem with zee name.

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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by jcoffland on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:28PM (#12790912)

You mean like Zoro?

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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:56PM (#12792078)

No, because Zoro is not a villain?

I was thinking of some old Bond villain.

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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by jcoffland on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @01:51PM (#12798747)

According to Wikipedia only one bond villain ever had a Z name. That was Max Zorin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_villains

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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by seansoutpost on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:40PM (#12790442)

This is the rebrand. This project was initially ZeroCoin, then ZeroCash, and now the abbreviated ZCash

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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by nullc on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @04:14PM (#12791265)

> This project was initially ZeroCoin,

ZeroCoin was an entirely different approach based on different cryptography with radically different properties.

( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175156.0 )

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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by 77pt77 on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:55PM (#12790598)

ZeroCoin and ZeroCash are probably the worst possible names for something like this.

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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by SilasX on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:44PM (#12790480)

I don't know ... to my ear, Bitcoin sounds petty -- the "bit" and "oi" pieces are diminutive.

ZCash seems relatively neutral to me, not evoking positive or negative feelings.

ZeroCash (from which it comes) is somehwat negative, since it evokes "no more money".

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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by tdb7893 on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @04:20PM (#12791314)

To be fair "Google" strikes me as an awful name so it might just be taste.

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