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Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin

The 2014 paper that showed how a payment ledger can hide sender, receiver and amount, while still letting the network check that coins were not created or double-spent. Zcash is an implementation of this line of work, not a co-author of the paper.

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Authors: Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza
Date: 2014
Publisher: Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza
Version: Source cited by the 2014 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0003
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Canonical readingZerocash study
Related paperZerocoin
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Ben-Sasson, E., Chiesa, A., Garman, C., Green, M., Miers, I., Tromer, E., & Virza, M. (2014). Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin. Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza. https://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-20140518.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{zerocash2014,
  title = {Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin},
  author = {Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza},
  year = {2014},
  institution = {Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza},
  url = {https://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-20140518.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/zerocash}
}

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TY  - RPRT
TI  - Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin
AU  - Eli Ben-Sasson
AU  - Alessandro Chiesa
AU  - Christina Garman
AU  - Matthew Green
AU  - Ian Miers
AU  - Eran Tromer
AU  - Madars Virza
PY  - 2014
PB  - Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza
UR  - https://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-20140518.pdf
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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Source status: Official source
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Rights: Official external source only
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