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The Phone-Under-Pillow Invitation
- Morgan Peck describes being asked to power down and hide her phone before hearing about the Zcash ceremony.
- She flew across the country to join strangers in a hotel to help create a new cryptocurrency key.
Public Ledger Reveals Hidden Identities
- Bitcoin's ledger is public and pseudonymous but can be deanonymized by linking addresses to real identities.
- That transparency can expose entire transaction histories and relationships once an address is tied to a person.
Privacy Depends On A Fragile Secret
- Zcash uses zero-knowledge proofs to prove statements without revealing underlying data.
- That math depends on a one-time enormous secret number whose compromise would allow undetectable counterfeiting.