Whois & Analysis for cex.io

Zcash is a decentralized and open-source cryptocurrency developed by the Zerocoin Electric Coin Company (ZECC) that offers privacy and selective transparency of transactions.

Zcash payments are published on a public blockchain, but the sender, recipient, and amount of a transaction remain private.

The Zcash trade symbol, ZEC, is not an official ISO 4217.

Like Bitcoin, Zcash has a fixed total supply of 21 million units.

Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality.

It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes.

Ethereum also provides a value token called "ether", which can be transferred between participants and is used to compensate participant nodes for computations performed.

Gas, an internal transaction pricing mechanism, is used to prevent spam on the network and allocate resources proportionally to the incentive offered by the request.

A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange using cryptography to secure the transactions and to control the creation of additional units of the currency.

Cryptocurrencies are a subset of alternative currencies, or specifically of digital currencies.

CEX.IO is a Bitcoin exchange and former cloud mining provider, established in London, 2013.

As an online digital currency exchanger, CEX.IO offers trading Bitcoins for fiat money, such as USD, EUR, GBP and RUB.

The exchange charges 0% to 0.2% commission on trade operations, according to Maker-Taker fee schedule.

Digital currency exchanges (DCEs) or bitcoin exchanges are businesses that allow customers to trade digital currencies for other assets, such as conventional fiat money, or different digital currencies.

They can be market makers that typically take the bid/ask spreads as transaction commissions for their services or simply charge fees as a matching platform.