{"title":"Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks written by founder and creator of Zcash Magazine, Frank Michael Porter. This includes Zcash Magazine Issue 0: Zero Known, presented as a hardcover initial release, as well as Perfect Money: How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Finished What Bitcoin Started, alongside other books authored by Frank.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"perfect-money-how-zero-knowledge-proofs-finished-what-bitcoin-started","title":"Perfect Money: How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Finished What Bitcoin Started (HARDCOVER)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Porter, Frank Michael\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 209\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 13-07-2026 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: \u003c\/strong\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Financial privacy is not a niche and should not be treated as inherently suspicious. \u003c\/b\u003eF\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003erank Porter’s Perfect Money is an exceptional book.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- Paul Brigner, Chief Policy and Regulatory Officer, Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), on 'Perfect Money'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery civilization that gained the power to watch its people's money used it. One technology finally broke the pattern.\u003cbr\u003eFor two thousand years, the ledger belonged to someone else. Rome taxed what the census recorded. Venice fed a stone lion's mouth with anonymous denunciations. East Germany filed one hundred kilometers of its citizens' secrets, and the modern financial system quietly perfected what they started: a world where every purchase you make writes a permanent record for whoever asks later.\u003cbr\u003eThen a rejected 1985 mathematics paper resurfaced, and everything changed.\u003cbr\u003ePerfect Money tells the explosive true story of Zcash and the zero-knowledge proof, the cryptographic breakthrough that lets a ledger verify every transaction while seeing none of them. Investigative in depth and thriller-paced from the first page, it follows the money from a Roman census line to a Hong Kong hotel room, from the collapse of DigiCash to Bitcoin's fatal compromise, from the $3.6 billion Bitfinex takedown to the strangest week in cryptography, when six strangers burned their own computers so that a secret could die on schedule.\u003cbr\u003eInside, you'll discover why Bitcoin's transparent blockchain became the ultimate surveillance tool, sold on subscription to governments worldwide. You'll walk through the zero-knowledge proof itself, explained so clearly that no technical background is required. You'll meet Zooko Wilcox, the DigiCash veteran Satoshi Nakamoto once linked to, who spent two decades building the missing half of digital money. And you'll understand what programmable central bank digital currencies actually mean for your financial freedom, straight from the central banks' own published research.\u003cbr\u003eWritten for readers of Andy Greenberg's Tracers in the Dark, Annie Jacobsen, and anyone who suspects financial privacy is about to become the most valuable property money can have, this book delivers history, cryptography, and a bull case for human freedom in one relentless narrative.\u003cbr\u003eThe surveillance state took two thousand years to perfect its machine. The answer took forty. This is the story of how mathematics won.\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for readers interested in: Zcash, zero-knowledge proofs, Bitcoin history, cryptocurrency investing, financial privacy, blockchain technology, CBDCs, digital currency, cypherpunks, encryption, surveillance, monetary freedom, crypto books, and ZEC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798187041244\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67042990653811,"sku":"B0H8N4CS1B","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/8858\/0211\/files\/51_A9sh6W7L.jpg?v=1791252096"},{"product_id":"zcash-magazine-issue-0-zero-known","title":"Zcash Magazine: Issue 0 \/ Zero Known (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Financial privacy is not a niche and should not be treated as inherently suspicious. \u003c\/b\u003eF\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003erank Porter’s Perfect Money is an exceptional book.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- Paul Brigner, Chief Policy and Regulatory Officer, Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), on 'Perfect Money'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE FIRST ISSUE OF ZCASH MAGAZINE. ISSUE 0. IN HARDCOVER.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTen years after the first Zcash block was mined, the first magazine is released.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery payment you make is being watched. This is the magazine about the technology that \u003ci\u003estops it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZcash Magazine Issue 0, \"Zero Known,\" is the first issue of a new magazine about Zcash, the privacy coin built on zero-knowledge proofs. It is a limited proof issue in hardcover, 84 full-color pages, and it is the collector's edition that starts everything. A regular magazine will follow quarterly. This is the one that came first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy a hardcover?\u003c\/b\u003e Because the feed forgets and paper remembers. Zcash turns ten on October 28, 2026, and a decade of private-money history deserves a physical object that lasts. Issue 0 is printed in full color on a hardcover made to stay on a shelf or coffee table for years, and to start a conversation when someone picks it up. Later issues will arrive as regular magazines. This one is the keepsake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can subscribe on our site mentioned in the magazine. Issue 1, the first Zcash Magazine in standard magazine format, is planned for quarterly release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside Issue 0:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe cover story:\u003c\/b\u003e How a payment can be proven valid without revealing who sent it, who received it, or how much.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWall Street buys a shield:\u003c\/b\u003e The August 2026 NYSE Arca listing of a fund built around a privacy coin, and what it means.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Blind Auction:\u003c\/b\u003e A sealed-bid sale for zkSNARKS NFTs, a refund of everything above the clearing price, and why cypherpunks call it proof that private markets work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe ceremony, the flaw and the fix:\u003c\/b\u003e The six strangers, the toxic waste, the Orchard circuit bug, and how the network patched it in days.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eZero-knowledge, explained:\u003c\/b\u003e The famous cave story, illustrated, with no math degree required.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTimeline, ledger and primary sources:\u003c\/b\u003e From David Chaum's blind signatures in the 1980s to today, with a reading list for going deeper.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten for:\u003c\/b\u003e Crypto veterans, Zcash holders, Bitcoin maximalists who want to understand the privacy side, cypherpunks, journalists, and anyone who has felt uneasy about a financial system that logs everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe voice:\u003c\/b\u003e Sharp, irreverent and bullish on privacy, with real numbers, real dates and no filler. It reads like a thriller and holds up like a briefing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy buy it now:\u003c\/b\u003e Issue 0 is a first edition. It captures a turning point, the moment privacy went from underground idea to a ticker on the New York Stock Exchange. Put it on the coffee table. Give it to the friend who says \"I have nothing to hide.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 8.25 x 11 inches, full color.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZcash Magazine is an independent publication by Frank Michael Porter, author of Perfect Money: How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Finished What Bitcoin Started. It is not an official Zcash publication and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Zcash Foundation. 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