The privacy-based altcoin, Zcash has had its fair share of publicity recently. Coinbase has excluded the crypto coin from its vast collection of cryptocurrencies that the exchange trades in. What made the San Francisco based cryptocurrency exchange to take such a step is unknown. This event has however deprived UK citizens of trading using Zcash from Coinbase. One speculation that has caught attention and aligns itself with the facts is that the British tax agency, HMRC, had been asking coin exchanges to submit customer transaction-related information. Being a privacy-oriented coin, this goes out of line with Zcash’s vision, they must