It turns out the pseudonymous John Dobbertin, who was one of the six participants in the Zcash Ceremony, was Edward Snowden all along.
Lol, not surprised here though.
Cybersecurity genius and CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed his connections to a privacy coin Zcash.
As Cointelegraph reports, he outlined his involvement in being one of the six people who held a private key before the launch of the project. Given his connections and knowledge about how both governments and agencies unlawfully spied on their citizens, something like zcash had to see the light of the day.
Zcash is a decentralized blockchain that uses zero-knowledge proofs in its transactions. ZEC transactions cannot be tracked and the amounts transmitted cannot be determined, unlike with relatively transparent Bitcoin (BTC).
The Zcash Ceremony saw Snowden and five other people each combine their portion of the Zcash private key to launch the project. None of the participants knew who the others were nor what portion of the key they held to protect their anonymity, one of the tenets of the project.
In the interview with Zcash Media, Snowden shared his enthusiasm for the project and his zeal for privacy. He said, “The problem with [Bitcoin] is you can’t have truly free trade unless you have private trade”
That's true to some extent, however, no one needs to know who's the person behind that address, and if you're smart enough no one will ever find out.
“I’m just really happy to see that the Zcash project [...] is moving us closer and closer towards that ideal of a free currency which is also a private currency.”
Well, seems like there are people who're willing to do something as opposed to talk only.
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