Privacy Coins @ Coffee Connection

Hey guys, I'm back from Spain, so it's time for another Meetup!

Let's gather on June 26 to discuss the technology behind privacy coins, like Monero, Zcash, and Dash.

Privacy coins feature cutting edge applied cryptography, like ring signatures and zk-SNARKs. Interestingly enough, a lot of the privacy coin technology will also make it to the other, more mainstream, cryptos: bulletproofs in Bitcoin and zk-SNARKS in Ethereum. Thus, there's lots to learn even if you don't follow the pure privacy coins!

Here's an example of something interesting that happened in privacy coin land recently: https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/04/09/moneros-hashrate-plunges-80-asics-hardfork

After Monero hard-forked, its hash rate dropped by 80%. It's likely that miners secretly developed an ASIC for Monero and were mining the currency in secret!

The privacy coin topic is purely to get the conversation started--we can talk about anything.

I'll see everyone at Coffee Connection!

-David