Is Zcash really private?
Zcash privacy is best in class. Zcash was the first cryptocurrency to use Zero Knowledge proofs, which allows Zcash to totally hide all information about a transaction (and therefore your…
A proposal for “Crypto Wednesdays”
What are “Crypto Wednesdays”? Simply put, that on Wednesdays you only make purchases using cryptocurrency. Today, this severely limits where you can spend your money one day of the week.…
Hosting Zcash litewalletd via Zebra
In previous posts, I described how I hosted a zcashd node and added a litewalletd service on top of that. In this post, I describe why and how I switched…
How to host a Zcash litewalletd server via docker
In a prior post I documented how I used a docker-compose.yml file to make it easy to create and maintain a zcashd server. In this post, I add a litewalletd…
HODL Is Not Enough-Crypto Must Become an Economic Currency
If cryptocurrencies were only good as an investment, BTC might be enough by itself. But of course, the value many people see in cryptocurrency is to supplant fiat currency, including…
How to host a Zcash node via docker
I’ve been running my own zcashd node in a docker container for quite a while. But it has been hosted by my primary Windows machine. Today, I moved it to…
How to sell your Coinbase Multi-sig wallet coins on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network
The Bitcoin Cash (BCC/BCH) fork was controversial and many expected it to quickly die, which is why Coinbase announced ahead of the fork that customers would not have access to their Bitcoin Cash…