May 2014 — the Zerocash paper introduces zk-SNARKs to money
2014
"Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin" is presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy. Using zk-SNARKs, it hides sender, recipient, and amount all at once — the direct technical basis for Zcash.
Source: zerocash-project.org
Part of Zcash · Watch in the documentary