- Notable team: Zooko Wilcox is the CEO of Zcash. Wilcox is an American computer security specialist and the CEO of Least Authority Enterprises, a manufacturer of freedom-compatible technologies. Alessandro Chiesa is a computer science faculty member of UC Berkeley and the co-founder of ZCash. Chiesa is well known for his research in zero-knowledge proofs and is a lead author at Libsnark, the library of zk-SNARKs proofs language. Vitalik Buterin is the founder of Ethereum and an advisor to the Zcash project. Buterin was quoted by CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden for praising the brilliance of zk-SNARKs technology.
- Angel investor, Quant trader and bitcoin expert Peter Black particularly criticized the centralized control of ZCash as a cryptocurrency as it contradicts the basic notion of digital currencies in general, in that most, if not all operations must be completed in a distributed environment.