There was also Edward Snowden in the team of creators who in 2016 gave birth to zcash, a cryptocurrency considered the best for the protection of privacy and now valued at 2 million dollars. It was the same deep throat of the NSA USA that revealed it. Unlike, for example, bitcoin, which is designed to be completely transparent and traceable, zcash is programmed to hide all information relating to the financial transaction, including not only the amounts involved but also the public keys, so that the cryptocurrency are invisible to the human eye. “As long as it is clear that I have never been paid and that I have never held any shares, this is information of public interest,” said Snowden, who participated in the operation under the pseudonym of John Dobbertin.