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The number of note commitments can be found using 'zcash-cli getblockchaininfo' and is currently 301068 commitments, i.e. 150534 JoinSplits (so a bit more than the 129000 I said).

The number of note commitments can be found using 'zcash-cli getblockchaininfo' and is currently 301068 commitments, i.e. 150534 JoinSplits (so a bit more than the 120000 I said).

To correct a minor point, none of the current Zcash code comes from the Zerocash academic prototype. All of the code that had come from the prototype was rewritten before launch (m…

You're mistaken in saying that it is most likely that the actual note is the most recent one for Zcash. The figure gives a slightly misleading impression because it has to show few…

Mining rewards, and the proportion of them that goes to the Zcash company, are transparent (not encrypted).

Note that the Anonymity section of this describes Zerocoin. Zcash is an implementation of Zerocash which is a later and more efficient, but cryptographically quite different protoc…

There's pizza, and there's junk pizza. I think you mean the latter. A good pizza can be pretty healthy -- certainly it doesn't seem to do the Italians any harm in terms of life exp…