​Privacy Coin 101

​We will discuss the original privacy coins: Monero, ZCash, Dash. These came from a different era of Crypto, where they were built for financial privacy. We will compare Monero (Ring Signatures), ZCash (zk-SNARKs), and Dash (CoinJoin Mixing).

​The goal is to dig into some of the underlying cryptographic tools and to understand their usecase and the people that are building on them,

Summary: Coming soon.

​Papers:

1. ​Monero: https://www.getmonero.org/resources/research-lab/pubs/cryptonote-whitepaper.pdf

2. ​ZCash :http://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-20140518.pdf

3. ​Dash: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/wiki/Whitepaper

​About Whitepaper Reading Club

​​​​​​​​​The Whitepaper Reading Club is a community of 700 builders, founders, students, researchers, in Singapore, Malaysia and Bangkok, New York and SF who come together in person every month to discuss the latest blockchain projects (website)

​​​​​Bittensor (Jul 2025)

​​​​​​​MakerDAO + Ethena (Sep 2024)

​​​​Summaries

​​​​​We create detailed and easy to understand summaries for each paper (summaries) and have held 50+ sessions since June 2023, covering topics from Account Abstraction, Parallel Chains, EIPs, Bitcoin Ecosystem to AIXCrypto. We are ecosystem-agnostic, not for profit and with a strong focus on projects with technical, product or social innovations.

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