Zcash Media reveals Edward Snowden is John Dobbertin

Zcash Media has revealed celebrated NSA whistleblower David Snowden is John Dobbertin, the last pseudonymous idiosyncratic that helped make the privateness cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC). Snowden confirmed this revelation during an interrogation with Zcash media. The 37 Laines part published an acquisition video based connected the interview.

Dubbed The End of Zcash’s Trusted Setup: Who is John Dobbertin?, the video aired connected Zcash Media’s YouTube and Odysee channels.

In the video, which is conscionable implicit 9 minutes long, Snowden said,

My sanction is Edward Snowden. I participated successful the Zcash archetypal ceremonial nether the pseudonym John Dobbertin.

He added that helium decided to instrumentality portion successful the ceremony, which was monumental to the motorboat of ZEC, due to the fact that respective trusted world cryptographers were moving connected the project. Snowden praised ZEC’s backstage ledger, which fosters escaped commercialized done backstage transactions. According to him, it is intolerable to person a escaped nine without escaped trade.

Delighted successful the milestones that Zcash has achieved frankincense far, Snowden said,

I’m conscionable truly blessed to spot that the Zcash project, which I’ve ne'er truly worked intimately with, has managed to support moving beyond the archetypal steps to support improving and benignant of determination america person and person towards that perfect of a escaped currency which is besides a backstage currency.

Events that led Snowden to admit his information successful ZEC

Detailing what led Snowden to uncover his relation successful ZEC’s creation, the video featured Sean Bowe, an Engineer astatine Electric Coin Company, the steadfast down ZEC. In his segment, Bowe talked astir however helium came up mode to bypass the Trusted Setup system, which made holding ceremonies irrelevant.

With Trusted Setups being a happening of the past, Zooko Wilcox, the CEO of Electric Coin Company, sent Snowden a enactment asking him to hold to disclose his existent identity.

In response, Snowden agreed connected the presumption that Wilcox makes it wide helium lone participated retired of nationalist involvement and that helium neither got paid nor received a involvement successful the Zcash project.

News of Snowden’s publication to the Zcash task has had small interaction connected ZEC. At the clip of writing, the token is up 1.61% successful the time to alteration hands astatine $149.11. This worth represents a 23.16% driblet implicit the past 30 days. Last month’s gains came aft U.S Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen accidentally leaked details of President Biden’s Executive Order connected Crypto.