zcash
zcoin
zclassic
zencash
any more out there? this is getting a bit confusing!
And only two of those with original development.
i think i missed one, Zero (ZER). is that right?
yes....and?
zero coin was the original I believe, but zcoin is the first actual implementation of it ?
All these coins their main feature is the privacy aspect.
Zclassic, Zencash and Zero are all forks of Zcash and use the same privacy scheme which is the Zerocash protocol that uses zk-SNARKs.
All of these coins also use Equihash. The same mining algorithm as Zcash.
Therefore their core foundations are the same.
Zcoin is not a fork (okay maybe a Bitcoin fork) but is built off the Zerocoin protocol that uses completely different cryptographic principles (RSA accumulators).
Zcoin doesn't use Equihash but uses Lyra2z and soon, MTP which is meant to be an improvement of Equihash (same authors).
We're trying to do something different here which has its own set of pros and cons and actually we launched slightly earlier than Zcash.