#174 - The FBI's New Cyber Super-Weapon Is The Dark Web's Worst Nightmare | Andy Greenberg
Danny Jones Podcast
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Is Zcash Really Untraceable?
Zcash is almost like magically untraceable. It uses the Z and Zcash comes from zero knowledge proofs, which are these sort of very, I don't know, like hard to even get your mind around kind of mathematical Proofs. The degree to which it can be traced means that chainalysis in that now a whole industry of companies competing with chainalysis. Now, this is now an $8.6 billion startup. They have money to recruit the smartest people thinking of new tricks to de-anonymize any cryptocurrency that has like the slightest foothold or clue of how to follow the money.
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