Researchers at Carnegie University have concluded that the vast majority of ZCash (ZEC) users do not understand how a private coin works/ and thus do not use its full cryptographic potential to the full. Experts noted that ZEC offers "serious encryption methods", but its holders hardly ever use them. Unlike Zcash, Monero (XMR) developers introduced stricter anonymity requirements, which allowed the asset to maintain a “virtually untraceable” status. Zcash uses a zero-knowledge evidence method, zk-SNARK. The cryptographic protocol can prevent any interaction between the checker and the transaction verifier, creating a ... (full story)