Rob Viglione is the founder of ZenCash and blends his interests as an academic and entrepreneur in finance and Blockchain development. As a PhD Candidate in Finance, Rob's research interests span across crypto-finance, venture capital, asset pricing and blockchain development. Rob teaches a course "Bitcoin & Blockchain Applications in Finance" one of only 3 in the world at the University of South Carolina.
ZenCash is built on zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs), a new cryptographic breakthrough in privacy and the core math behind the blockchain. It was originally developed as Zerocash and eventually Zcash. ZenCash then forked this original codebase into a new project and has since added many additional security and privacy features beyond Zcash.
As stated on Rob's LinkedIn: "ZenCash is building a globally distributed secure node network resilient to censorship by implementing network-level encryption on top of zk-SNARK blockchain obfuscation, embedding secure messaging, document publishing on IPFS, and a system of decentralized governance."
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- How Rob got into Cryptocurrency and Crypto Finance
- How Rob came into ZenCash idea
- What exactly zero-knowledge proofs are and how they work
- Why zero knowledge proofs is such a breakthrough in cryptography and privacy
- How transparency is built in as a default with Bitcoin and how zero-knowledge adds to that
- Why we need privacy as people and organizations
- How Zencash differs and compliments pre-existing Zcash and other forks
- How Zencash innovates on economics and technology
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