Ep 5 - Meet Rob of ZenCash, a Zcash fork with built-in secure messaging and privacy

Rob Viglione is the founder of ZenCash and blends his interests
as an academic and entrepreneur in finance and Blockchain
development. As a PhD Candidate in Finance, Rob's research
interests span across crypto-finance, venture capital, asset
pricing and blockchain development. Rob teaches a course
"Bitcoin & Blockchain Applications in Finance" one of
only 3 in the world at the University of South Carolina.


ZenCash is built on zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs), a new
cryptographic breakthrough in privacy and the core math behind
the blockchain. It was originally developed as Zerocash and
eventually Zcash. ZenCash then forked this original codebase into
a new project and has since added many additional security and
privacy features beyond Zcash.


 As stated on Rob's LinkedIn: "ZenCash is
building a globally distributed secure node network resilient to
censorship by implementing network-level encryption on top of
zk-SNARK blockchain obfuscation, embedding secure messaging,
document publishing on IPFS, and a system of decentralized
governance."


After listening to this episode you will learn:


How Rob got into Cryptocurrency and Crypto Finance

How Rob came into ZenCash idea

What exactly zero-knowledge proofs are and how they work

Why zero knowledge proofs is such a breakthrough in
cryptography and privacy

How transparency is built in as a default with Bitcoin and
how zero-knowledge adds to that

Why we need privacy as people and organizations

How Zencash differs and compliments pre-existing Zcash and
other forks

How Zencash innovates on economics and technology



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