Zcash
ZEC44.47 (-10.31%)
Performance & facts
| Zcash price: | 44.47 | #17 | |
| Price change 1 hour: | -4.56% | #5 | |
| Price change 24 hours: | -10.31% | #158 | |
| Price change 7 days: | +10.75% | #8 | |
| Price change 30 days: | +22.42% | #13 | |
| 24 hour volume: | 13.8m | #68 | |
| 24 hour range: | 41.45 - 49.91 | ||
| 52 week range: | 24.67 - 77.1 | ||
| Maximum supply: | 21m ZEC | ||
| Fully diluted market cap: | 931.1m | ||
About Zcash
Zcash is a cryptocurrency developed by Zerocoin Electric Coin Company as alternative to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Zcash offers greater confidentiality of transactions and user's balances through the use of zero-knowledge cryptography. By using encryption technique called "zk-SNARKS", it enables complete privacy when making and receiving payments.
Zcash has faster block time than Bitcoin - less than 2 minutes instead of 10 minutes. This makes for faster transactions and potentially higher transaction throughput.
Zcash also has different proof-of-work algorithm, called "Scrypt", which, before arrival of specialized Scrypt ASIC miners, made mining more decentralized and Zcash network more censorship resistant.
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