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by seansoutpost 3524 days ago
This is the rebrand. This project was initially ZeroCoin, then ZeroCash, and now the abbreviated ZCash
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> This project was initially ZeroCoin,

ZeroCoin was an entirely different approach based on different cryptography with radically different properties.

( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175156.0 )

ZeroCoin and ZeroCash are probably the worst possible names for something like this.