9 We have a guide for joining the public testnet: https://github.com/zcash/zcash/wiki/Beta-Guide
14 Zcash is an implementation of the "Zerocash" protocol. Based on Bitcoin's code, it intends to
15 offer a far higher standard of privacy and anonymity through a sophisticiated zero-knowledge
16 proving scheme which preserves confidentiality of transaction metadata. Technical details are
17 available in our [Protocol Specification](https://github.com/zcash/zips/raw/master/protocol/protocol.pdf).
19 **Zcash is unfinished and highly experimental.** Use at your own risk.
21 Participation in the Zcash project is subject to a [Code of Conduct](code_of_conduct.md).
26 See important security warnings in
27 [doc/security-warnings.md](doc/security-warnings.md).
32 Zcash is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
33 information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.