On Nov 6, 2016, Zclassic launched as a 100% fair PoW mined fork of Zcash code. Zcash contained the first release of their ZK-SNARKs enabled “shielded” transactions Since then, around 2018–2019, Zcash and Zclassic each updated to a more computationally efficient version of the ZK-SNARKs transactions (code name “Sapling”). In…