Bitcoin mining giant Foundry adds new pool for privacy-focused Zcash

Foundry, an upstate New York-based firm that launched in 2019, runs a mining pool that today commands around 31% of all Bitcoin production. On Monday, the company formally launched a second pool operation based around a cryptocurrency known as Zcash that shares many attributes of Bitcoin, but that is designed to be less visible. The move amounts to a major endorsement for Zcash in light of Foundry’s outsize role in the crypto mining space.

In an interview with Fortune, Foundry CEO Mike...