Good link! In summary, Zcash ships with a magic number, essentially a public key whose corresponding private key is able to counterfeit ZEC. In order to miti

Good link! In summary, Zcash ships with a magic number, essentially a public key whose corresponding private key is able to counterfeit ZEC. In order to mitigate the risk developers shard the keypair generation, such that only one participant needs to destroy their private shard to guarantee destruction of the private key. More details: https://z.cash/blog/snark-parameters.html https://z.cash/blog/snark-parameters.html