The future of crypto is private.

darkfi uses the halo2 code written by zcash. owe big debt to the brilliant crypto-dev team

There have been thousands of pages written about bitcoin. None of them spell it BitCoin. If you do, it shows you've read none of them.

I wake up. Open X. Timeline full of zcash:native vulnerability posts. Open my wallet. F**k, I'm down bad. Open X again. Turns out there was no exploit. The team is already fixing the bug. Still holding my ZEC. Still believe in privacy.

My overall take from recent events is that a lot of people are dumber than I'd realized.

Yep, the Computer Security AIpocalypse is happening. Please be patient with the computer security professionals you know for the next few months, as they’ll likely be busy and stressed about preventing the collapse of civilization. x.com/zooko/status/203878394…

The irony of Zcash surviving an exploit by using opus 4.8 is that Zcash might be the only cyber coin that actually survives opus 4.8

💯 For perspective: AI only started getting really good at cybersecurity about 7 months ago. Since then, AI has uncovered critical vulns across EVERY major browser / OS, including a Linux kernel bug introduced in 2003 that survived 23 years of open source human review.

I beat one of the best published quantum circuits for breaking Bitcoin. And I have no formal training in quantum cryptography. Using just AI agents, I improved it by ~2x. But I haven’t beat Google’s best classified circuit yet. So, today I'm launching ecdsa(dot)fail -- an open competition for researchers, autoresearchers, and agents to beat Google. Download the CLI, point your agent at it, and start optimizing.

Your stupid VC shitcoin was born out of a trusted setup involving Israeli soldiers. Etheeryum, which is the biggest and most decentralized shitcoin (tallest midget) was rolled back to seize $150m of the founders' coins that they couldn't secure. If the biggest most decentralized shitcoin can be rolled back for $150m, every shitcoin will never be able to credibly demonstrate that it can resist political pressure. Bitcoin can because it has no founders, no trusted setups, no premine & no stupid VCs with power over it. You could take the 1000 most influential bitcoiners and 1000 biggest hodlers and torture them for a month and all you'd get is a worthless stupid shitcoin fork like bcash while bitcoin continues to work. For all other shitcoins you don't need to do anything more than threaten a dozen nerds.

I’d be happy to have the conversation. It doesn’t even have to be a debate; you can simply critique my perspective. I’m here to share what I believe to be true. If you think I’m wrong about anything, I’m always happy to update my understanding. I don’t care about popularity. I only care about accuracy. We’ve met before. I’m happy to share my views, receive pushback, and help move people closer to the truth. And, respectfully, while I know your prior work was quoted in the Bitcoin white paper, you said you were playing catch up on Bitcoin in 2013. I draw much of my analysis from being around some of the Bitcoin developers in 2011 and from being a shareholder in more than 100 Bitcoin companies since the early days. As you may remember, and for full transparency, I even tried to invest in Blockstream, but the company ultimately became dominated by venture capital and financial-industrial-complex interests, and your board declined my investment. I also believe Blockstream took Epstein-connected funding through Brock Pierce, who later sold his shares, as you publicly confirmed recently. Care to push the conversation forward respectfully, Adam?