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Edward Snowden reveals he was one of six who helped launch Zcash

Cybersecurity poster boy and government surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed he played a pivotal role in the creation of privacy token Zcash (ZEC). A video from Zcash Media featured an interview with Snowden where he outlined his involvement as one of the six individuals who had a piece of the Zcash multisig private key to launch the project on Oct. 23, 2016. In the video, Snowden stated: “My name is Edward Snowden. I participated in the Zcash original ceremony under the pseudonym John Dobbertin.” Edward Snowden is the whistleblower who revealed U.S. government surveillance tactics and went into hiding in 2013. Zcash is a decentralized blockchain that uses zero-knowledge proofs in its transactions. ZEC transactions cannot be tracked and the amounts transmitted cannot be d...

Edward Snowden reveals he was one of six who helped launch Zcash

Cybersecurity poster boy and government surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed he played a pivotal role in the creation of privacy token Zcash (ZEC). A video from Zcash Media featured an interview with Snowden where he outlined his involvement as one of the six individuals who had a piece of the Zcash multisig private key to launch the project on Oct. 23, 2016. In the video, Snowden stated: “My name is Edward Snowden. I participated in the Zcash original ceremony under the pseudonym John Dobbertin.” Edward Snowden is the whistleblower who revealed U.S. government surveillance tactics and went into hiding in 2013. Zcash is a decentralized blockchain that uses zero-knowledge proofs in its transactions. ZEC transactions cannot be tracked and the amounts transmitted cannot be d...