Follow along as Zcash $ZEC goes from underground cypherpunk money to global super currency.
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25 Apr 2023
Shields Up ๐ก๏ธ
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23 Aug 2022
What are the next big crypto narratives?
Here are 6 narratives to watch, along with a thesis and project watchlist for each:
- Privacy / ZK
- Real Yield
- Value Accrual Tokenomics
- Banking infrastructure / FX
- Music NFTs
- Historical NFTs
Read on ๐
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23 Aug 2022
Cash app = Web2 cash
Zcash = Web3 cash
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Documenting Zcash ๐๐ก retweeted
20 Aug 2022
Love to see ppl digging into to how censorship and privacy interact in consensus protocols!
An important take-away for Zcash design: if miners censor all shielded txns, they would be preventing themselves from receiving their own mining revenue!
20 Aug 2022
I believe you are asking if miners (more generally block producers) can discriminate between shielded vs transparent transactions: yes.
Zooko is pointing out discriminating against "all shielded" is very different than fine-grained discrimination against specific users.
Right?
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Documenting Zcash ๐๐ก retweeted
20 Aug 2022
Hello, anti-censorship crypto frens. By far the bestโand possibly the onlyโdefense against consensus-layer censorship is end-to-end encryption on L1. Fortunately for future generations, end-to-end encryption has already been deployed, battle-tested, and upgradedโฆon Zcash.
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18 Aug 2022
Hey everyone who cares about censorship resistance in blockchains, you should really pay attention to Zcash architect @least_nathan.
Nate is one of those people who says a thing in an understated way, and just once, so it is easy to miss. Don't do that.
x.com/least_nathan/status/15โฆ
18 Aug 2022
Privacy is normal and necessary for humans: dignity, interpersonal relationships, business, free associationโฆ
Then there are the fungibility / monetary motivationsโฆ
But as a third category, it's also a lynchpin for base layer consensus security censorship & MEV resistance.
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18 Aug 2022
4/ I'm beginning to think that building on chains that don't have base layer privacy will have pretty poor shelf-life. All the more reason to add programmability to protocols like Zcash, or build new networks with a mixture of Ethereum's flexibility and Zcash's privacy.
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18 Aug 2022
I think it's somewhat naive to think that any network where certain transactions can be identified as belonging to, e.g., North Korea will ever be able to carry on being censorship resistant.
x.com/valkenburgh/status/156โฆ
18 Aug 2022
I'm getting that old feeling where I'm headed to school and still haven't done the homework for the day. Except the homework is base layer privacy for cryptocurrencies and the school is all the laws that will crush anything with censorship resistance but no privacy.
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Documenting Zcash ๐๐ก retweeted
18 Aug 2022
Privacy is normal and necessary for humans: dignity, interpersonal relationships, business, free associationโฆ
Then there are the fungibility / monetary motivationsโฆ
But as a third category, it's also a lynchpin for base layer consensus security censorship & MEV resistance.
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18 Aug 2022
I'm getting that old feeling where I'm headed to school and still haven't done the homework for the day. Except the homework is base layer privacy for cryptocurrencies and the school is all the laws that will crush anything with censorship resistance but no privacy.
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18 Aug 2022
I used to think programmability should be L1 but moving funds privately into a L2 seems good enough. Keeps the base layer more simplistic.
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17 Aug 2022
Financial privacy should be the norm. People don't like getting their page views tracked by companies running ads - but don't realize their lack of privacy is so much worse in financial services.
16 Aug 2022
Starting a thread of reasons you might want financial privacy.
- You're buying birth control and are afraid it might become illegal at a later date.
- You're paying dues at a religious institution that may be the target of hate.
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16 Aug 2022
Iโm excited to join the @electriccoinco as Head of Global Regulatory Relations to continue a career dedicated to supporting organizations that drive financial inclusion.
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16 Aug 2022
Non-fungible digital money is a bad idea. We're about to find out how bad ๐ฌ
Zcash $ZEC fixes this.
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Why you need privacy in crypto.
Imagine what happens if people figure out who the owner of this address is.
15 Aug 2022
This wallet bought 150k Ethereum 5 and a half years ago for $1.5Mโฆ
Itโs now worth $290M ๐ฎ
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