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title: "[From September 17.  When released this should make zk-snark based…"
date: 2017-11-21
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# [From September 17.  When released this should make zk-snark based…

*November 21, 2017 · Facebook*

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[https://www.coindesk.com/better-faster-zk-snarks-zcash-developers-release-new-privacy-tech/](https://www.coindesk.com/better-faster-zk-snarks-zcash-developers-release-new-privacy-tech/){target="_blank"}
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\[From September 17. When released this should make zk-snark based privacy much more practical.\]\
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\"Today, zcash, the seventeenth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, uses the bleeding-edge cryptographic technique zk-SNARKs to hide balances and user addresses, but the technique comes with a drawback that\'s hard to ignore: anonymous transactions are sluggish.\
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While normal transactions take seconds to create, shielded transactions using zk-SNARKs take one to two minutes. That\'s why engineers have been exploring ways to cut down the time needed to securely generate shielded transactions.\"\
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[https://www.coindesk.com/better-faster-zk-snarks-zcash-developers-release-new-privacy-tech/](https://www.coindesk.com/better-faster-zk-snarks-zcash-developers-release-new-privacy-tech/){target="_blank"}
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