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Zcash Foundation
Company blog · zfnd.org/blogsecurityprogramming
Zcash Foundation is the company blog at zfnd.org, writing about security and programming. Since 2019, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Decoding Bitcoin Messages with Tokio Codecs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zcash Foundation blog posts on Zcash development funding, grants, and the foundation's privacy infrastructure work, citing them as sources for their points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Advancing Digital Privacy The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity building financial privacy infrastructure for the public good, primarily serving users of the Zcash protocol and blockchain. Donate Our Mission To help sustain and improve open financial networks that allow anyone and every
Most-linked posts?
- Decoding Bitcoin Messages with Tokio Codecs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-09
What Hacker News says?
Sure. Starting from the academic beginning and then going to commercial usage: Zerocash[0], a paper from 2014 (I'm an author on it), proposes using zksnarks to get a public ledger + privacy with no centralized parties. Instead of identifying the origin of your money on the blockchain and moving it to someone, you just prove in zero-knowledge your payment is correct. This showed strong privacy on a public blockchain…
Comment linking /blog/blockchain-privacy/
on “Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director”Submitted So You Want to Build an End-to-End Encrypted Web App as a story · 167 points
HN discussionCryptocurrency ICOs showed venture funding could be innovated on way more fundamentally than "tweaking a formula". The simple ICO model may arguably have been largely misused, but it kickstarted a lot of promising research and experimentation[1]. [1]: e.g. https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/10/24/gitcoin.html , https://www.zfnd.org/blog/dev-fund-guidance-and-timeline
Comment linking /blog/dev-fund-guidance-and-timeline
on “Fashionable Problems”Submitted Let's Develop Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing as a story · 12 points
HN discussionZcash Foundation | Remote | Full-time | Core Engineer (Rust) The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that builds and supports privacy infrastructure for the public good. We work on strengthening financial privacy with technology, focused on the Zcash cryptocurrency protocol and blockchain. We are looking for a Core Engineer to join our (fully remote) team in building Zebra, a Rust implementation of the Zcash…
Comment linking /blog/opening-core-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted A New Network Stack for Zcash as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSince HN won't allow links in the text field of a submission, I'll re-paste them here for convenience: https://grants.zfnd.org/ https://www.zfnd.org/blog/zf-grants-is-ready/
Comment linking /blog/zf-grants-is-ready/
on “Show HN: ZF Grants – Grants and Community Funding in $ZEC”Submitted The State of the Zcash Foundation in 2019 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Cypherpunk Privacy Reading List as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zebra, the New Consensus-Compatible Zcash Node Client as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Second ZKProof Standards Workshop as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speed up your threshold signatures with this one weird trick as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Position: Cryptography Engineer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decoding Bitcoin Messages with Tokio Codecs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Cypherpunk Privacy Reading List as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Human Rights Foundation Cryptocurrency Research as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Private multisig transactions coming to Zcash as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Assessing Mixnet Production Readiness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decoding Bitcoin Messages with Tokio Codecs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zcash Governance: A Step Toward Decentralization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing ZF Grants as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New Zip Process and Zcash Governance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zcon1: June 22 – 24 in Split, Croatia as a story · 1 points
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