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Launch · Oct 28, 2016
Zcash launches
The first big privacy coin built on zk-SNARKs goes live.
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Zcash mainnet started on October 28, 2016. Early trading was wild because only a tiny amount of ZEC existed; mining rewards started slowly by design.
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