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= Zerocash protocol = On 16 November 2013, Matthew D. Green announced the Zerocash protocol, an extension to Zerocoin to provide additional anonymity by shielding the amount in a cryptocurrency transaction.

Zerocash reduces transaction sizes by 98% over Zerocoin, however is significantly more computationally expensive, taking up to 3.2GB of memory to generate. More recent developments into the protocol have reduced this to 40MB.