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Zerocoin

Index Zerocoin

Zerocoin is a cryptocurrency proposed by Johns Hopkins University professor Matthew D. Green and graduate students Ian Miers and Christina Garman as an extension to the bitcoin protocol that would add true cryptographic anonymity to bitcoin transactions. [1]

9 relations: Accumulator (cryptography), Bitcoin Private, CoinJoin, Commitment scheme, Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency tumbler, CryptoNote, Matthew D. Green, Moneta (disambiguation).

Accumulator (cryptography)

A cryptographic accumulator is a one way membership function.

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Bitcoin Private

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) is an open-source, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency with the optional ability to keep the sender, receiver, and amount private in a given transaction.

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CoinJoin

CoinJoin is an anonymization method for bitcoin transactions proposed by Gregory Maxwell.

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Commitment scheme

A commitment scheme is a cryptographic primitive that allows one to commit to a chosen value (or chosen statement) while keeping it hidden to others, with the ability to reveal the committed value later.

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Cryptocurrency

A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses strong cryptography to secure financial transactions, control the creation of additional units, and verify the transfer of assets.

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Cryptocurrency tumbler

Cryptocurrency tumbler or cryptocurrency mixing service is a service offered to mix potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the trail back to the fund's original source.

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CryptoNote

CryptoNote is an application layer protocol that powers several decentralized privacy-oriented digital currencies.

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Matthew D. Green

Matthew Daniel Green (born 1976) is a cryptographer and security technologist.

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Moneta (disambiguation)

Moneta may refer to.

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Redirects here:

ZCoin, ZeroVert.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerocoin

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