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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | The 2014 paper that showed how a payment ledger can hide sender, receiver and amount, while still letting the network check that coins were not created or double-spent. Zcash is an implementation of this line of work, not a co-author of the paper. |
| Who may write | Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza |
| What is settled | Coins are commitments. Spending reveals a nullifier, not the coin. |
| Load-bearing assumption | The paper is not a description of today's Zcash network, its circuits, or its upgrade history. |
| What this library says afterwards | It does not argue that shielded payments are appropriate for every regulated flow. |
| Rights | Official external source only |