Zcash is a cryptocurrency that grew out of the Zerocoin project, aimed at improving anonymity for Bitcoin users.The Zerocoin protocol was initially improved and transformed into Zerocash, which thus yielded the Zcash cryptocurrency in 2016.

"The next Electric Coin Co. livestream is Feb. 18 at 10 am MST."

ECC Livestream

ETHDenver 2020 from February 14 - 16 at the Sports Castle in Denver, Colorado.

ETHDenver 2020

"Binance Futures will launch ZEC/USDT perpetual contract and trading opens on 2020/02/05 08:00 AM (UTC)."

Binance ZEC/USDT Futures

Blossom is the third network upgrade for Zcash.

Blossom Network Update

"SF Blockchain Week is where blockchain startups, enterprise companies, academics, developers, and investors from around the world come..."

SF Blockchain Week

"Avantpay|19 converges public and private sector experts tackling business and regulatory challenges for payments, cannabis, and crypto..."

AvantPay|19

YCash, the first "friendly fork" of the ZCash blockchain, forks at block height 570,000 (expected July 18).

YCash Fork

Blockchain Week Rome from from June 25-30.

Blockchain Week Rome

"Zcon1 will take place in Split, Croatia, from June 22 – 24."

Zcon1

"CoinDesk is proud to present our 5th annual blockchain technology summit, May 13-15, 2019."

Consensus 2019

"Tuesday, March 26 — a meetup in San Francisco focused on the design of @zcashco's reference wallet!"

San Francisco Meetup

ETHDenver buildathon, workshops, and community gathering in Denver from February 15-17.

ETHDenver 2019

The Sapling network upgrade is a major feature enhancement to the Zcash network targeted to activate on October 28th, 2018.

Sapling Network Upgrade

"Sapling will activate the Sapling protocol update, bringing orders of magnitude improvements in both time and memory to shielded transactio...

Network Upgrade 1

Paris Blockchain Week Summit from Mar 31st - Apr 1st.

Paris Blockchain Summit

"Activation block 903000 will be mined July 16, 2020 07:25 UTC+00:00 assuming 75 seconds/block"

Heartwood Network Upgrade

Halving

Blockstack brings you #FutureProof with brilliant speakers - Brittany Kaiser (Whistleblower, Cambridge Analytica), Jameson Lopp from Casa...

Future Proof Conference

"We will be hosting a Q&A session on the structure and process of the Major Grants Review Committee, hosted by @socrates1024."

Community Call

"May 6, 2021 02:30 PM: Zcash protocol contributors discuss upgrade timelines, R&D efforts, design implementation and unresolved issues."

Arborist Call

"Announcing Zcon2 Lite on June 8th & 9th, conference organised by the Zcash Foundation that focuses on privacy-preserving technologies"

Zcon2 Lite

"Get ready for a special session... Join us June 8/9 to learn more about the rationale and future of the NUP."

NUP Rationale & Future

Release supporting Network Upgrade 5 (NU5) on Testnet.

NU5 Testnet Release

5.1.0 Release

"The planned release of Halo Arc is Oct. 1, 2021 to coincide with the activation of Network Upgrade 5."

Halo Arc

"... Zcash Improvement Proposals (ZIPs) for Network Upgrade 5 (NU5), projected to activate on Mainnet in October 2021."

Network Upgrade 5

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Electric Capital is an early stage venture firm focused on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces.

Electric Capital ⚡️

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Linda Xie

Leading #Ethereum blockchain software company. Our products help users, developers, and financial institutions build a more trusted digital economy.

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founder @variantfund; via @a16z, @spotify, @mediachain_, @coolmanagers.

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Even though privacy coins are being built using a public blockchain network, they obscure the participants' identity and transaction amounts. Different multiple transactions can be mixed into one, which makes it difficult to analyse its origin and destination. Wallet addresses and balances can also be obscured, making it difficult to identify the owner. Below are the privacy coins listed.