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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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