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A wiki for everything related to Zcash design and implementation.

Please keep in mind that this repository may eventually become public, including its revision history.

Getting Started

Watch the Buildbot. Because the Buildbot is watching you.

To use the software, start with the building, local testing, and public testnet instructions

Developer information lives on the dev page.

Background

This repository is a fork of bitcoin core which contains protocol changes to support the Zerocash protocol. This implements an "altcoin" which maintains a separate ledger from the Bitcoin network, for several reasons, the most immediate of which is that the consensus protocol is different.

Design Goals

• Add fungability and security to transactions, primarily via the Zerocash protocol.
• Change the upstream Bitcoin protocol as minimally as possible. This is a usability goal as well as an engineering and security goal.
• Develop and maintain an implementation that's amenable to source and revision history auditing.