ZCash has a unique mining process based on the implementation of Genesis keys or "master private key", which is the responsibility of a small group of six individuals, only they have access. This is a crucial and necessary key for the anonymity mixer on the ZCash network to operate properly. If this key is leaked out of this small group however, the owner of this key will be able to produce an unlimited amount of ZCash, I hope these keys are pretty safe.
That is quite worrying. Is there a way to prevent the leak?
My understanding was that the keys were only needed to initiate the process and were then supposed to have been destroyed. They were created by six different people, including Peter Todd, a BTC dev who had a skeptical attitude towards Zcash (but was willing to participate when asked by the Zcash team, as it helps to have such an outsider as one of the six.)
There's no way to utterly disprove the idea that someone pulled some stunt with the keys at some point at the point of launch, but the publicized process for creating the keys and deploying them sounded pretty robust and appropriately paranoid.
If anyone has more concrete info I appreciate correction, I'm just going by what I recall from 5-6 months ago.
