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May 15
Zcash now has a home at Network School, Malaysia, where 400 techno-optimists and founders live.
Two weeks ago this was a boring empty room in a hotel, a prime location right in front of the library where all the buzz of the events happens.
Today it's a Zcash office, and yesterday afternoon 12 people showed up to our office hours to talk about financial privacy, many of them setting up their Zodl wallet for the first time, eager to learn how to make their first private transaction.
Not because they're "hiding something", but because privacy is a recognized human right. It' in article 12 of the Universal Declaration, constitutions include it and governments defend it, or at least they say they do.
Here's what's actually strange: you share your Bitcoin address to receive a payment, and the sender can now see your entire balance and every transaction you ever made.
You would sue your traditional bank for doing something similar with your bank balance. You don't hand someone your bank statement when they pay you for coffee.
Zcash fixes this. Same technology as Bitcoin, but with the privacy layer that zero-knowledge proofs make possible.
Transparent Bitcoin is useful for institutions, banks and governments. But its transparency can harm common people like you and me. We need financial tools aligned with our basic rights.
We went from an empty room to a full one in 14 days. We are organizing talks, interviews and onboarding people into their first private transactions in this booming ecosystem.
Turns out "privacy is normal" is a message people want to hear. And thanks to Zcash community effort through ZCG, it is now a reality.
@Zcash @ns @balajis @zcashme @michael2xl @zcash_community @thecodebuffet @shieldedmark @keiara_d @0xkivous @adamtpang
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¡#Zcash en Malaysia!
Te contamos más de esta iniciativa en nuestro episodio: youtu.be/_KmMkiVhfuI
#Zcast
May 15
Zcash now has a home at Network School, Malaysia, where 400 techno-optimists and founders live.
Two weeks ago this was a boring empty room in a hotel, a prime location right in front of the library where all the buzz of the events happens.
Today it's a Zcash office, and yesterday afternoon 12 people showed up to our office hours to talk about financial privacy, many of them setting up their Zodl wallet for the first time, eager to learn how to make their first private transaction.
Not because they're "hiding something", but because privacy is a recognized human right. It' in article 12 of the Universal Declaration, constitutions include it and governments defend it, or at least they say they do.
Here's what's actually strange: you share your Bitcoin address to receive a payment, and the sender can now see your entire balance and every transaction you ever made.
You would sue your traditional bank for doing something similar with your bank balance. You don't hand someone your bank statement when they pay you for coffee.
Zcash fixes this. Same technology as Bitcoin, but with the privacy layer that zero-knowledge proofs make possible.
Transparent Bitcoin is useful for institutions, banks and governments. But its transparency can harm common people like you and me. We need financial tools aligned with our basic rights.
We went from an empty room to a full one in 14 days. We are organizing talks, interviews and onboarding people into their first private transactions in this booming ecosystem.
Turns out "privacy is normal" is a message people want to hear. And thanks to Zcash community effort through ZCG, it is now a reality.
@Zcash @ns @balajis @zcashme @michael2xl @zcash_community @thecodebuffet @shieldedmark @keiara_d @0xkivous @adamtpang
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Jun 13
RT @zooko: Thanks, Anthropic, for helping protect Zcash users. At Shielded Labs’s request, they ran a security audit of Zcash with Mythos.…
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Jun 3
As we blogged about last month, the new shielded pool we're developing for Zcash will use formal verification, more conservative cryptography, a simple arithmetization, robust APIs, fuzzing, and extensive auditing from humans and AI.
And much more: tachyon.z.cash/blog/folding-…
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Attention ZCAP members! The 'June ZCG Election' SIV poll is now open and ends Monday, June 29th at 20:00 UTC. Check your email inbox for instructions.
🗳️ Please vote! General information available here 👇️ zfnd.org/zcap-poll-now-open-…
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Jun 11
Zcash brought zk to life.
We made it fast.
We made it usable.
Now we make the supply trustlessly verifiable.
Then we scale. Then quantum secure.
Private digital cash. ZEC for billions.
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Jun 10
RT @zooko: I don't want to escape the permanent underclass. I want to make sure there isn't a permanent underclass. Freedom and prosperity…
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Jun 10
Blockchains are harder to protect from quantum computers than banks.
That was my main takeaway from Q Day, an event hosted by @QuantusNetwork at Network School @ns.
We were kindly invited to represent @Zcash there. Different ecosystems, but aligned on one point: crypto needs to take quantum risk seriously before it is too late.
Quantus is building a post-quantum Layer 1: a blockchain designed from day one to resist attacks from quantum computers.
I came in thinking TradFi would be more exposed than crypto, but @YuviLightman and @JoeMattia changed my mind.
Centralized databases are imperfect, but they can still be protected behind a perimeter.
In blockchains, the vulnerable material is public, replicated, and permanent. If a signature scheme breaks, you are not just protecting one database. You are protecting a global public record that anyone can copy and attack forever.
That makes Zcash’s quantum roadmap especially important.
The first step is quantum-recoverable wallets: giving users a path to re-secure funds if quantum risk accelerates faster than expected.
The bigger goal is a fuller transition to post-quantum cryptography over the next 12 to 18 months.
That is the right posture. Less denial, more work.
Quantum safety is not about predicting the exact year quantum computers become dangerous. It is about whether a network can move fast enough.
Patching the protocol is easier than moving the users. Migration takes time. Wallets, exchanges, custody, education, defaults, habits. All of it matters.
So the uncomfortable question is simple:
When quantum computers arrive, will your sovereign internet money be ready to migrate?
@adamtpang @defijangle
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Jun 10
We were at Q Day thanks to the hard work of our Zcash intern Adam (@adamtpang).
Want to visit us at Network School, support him, and make his life busier all at once? Use his referral link: ns.com/adam/apply
@ns: where you work hard, stay healthy, and meet cool people. Like us.
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Jun 9
I mapped the NOSTR network and ran PageRank on it.
You can see top accounts and a graph of the network at the link below.
PageRank lets you do nice things like find the real @naval among many imposters.
Fits my thesis that NOSTR is more interesting as a social graph than as a social feed.
Now the missing product is a phone app to exchange identities.
Identity exchange should create special record marking that you met in person -- a higher trust signal than a follow.
After exchanging identites, negotiate how to communicate further (Signal, WhatsApp, Instagram etc).
No clue how to make this ZK friendly. But if all or part can be redone with ZK it would be excellent cypherpunk infrastructure.
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JUST IN: Ironwood consensus rules are finalized, Zcash dev orgs have collectively agreed on the specific changes to be made.
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See you at WebSummit Rio this week
I will be presenting @tftcxyz in during Rio's WebSummit on Wednesday, at 12pm (BRT) on stage 7.
@Carolinahortaaa and Layon Costa will also represent us, on exhibition booths A3-37 - APLHA 3.
I am particularly interested in meeting with potential customers, including:
- Startups & scaleup founders & executives
- Solopreneurs
- AI, SaaS, media & web3 entrepreneurs
- Consulting, financial, & legal services entrepreneurs.
I am also interested in meeting with investors in startup cities, FinTech, RegTech and GovTech.
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Jun 5
No, Zcash was not exploited.
The people who patched it were all top 0.001% of their field.
The methodology to find it is known and accessible to 0.01% of people.
The circumstances to find it were to hire a person whom already discovered an inflation bug 10 years earlier.
The circulating supply is following the predictable supply curve.
The Orchard pool is growing at a predictable rate consistent with the chain’s usage.
And even if it did get exploited (it didn’t), this is, worst case, similar to The DAO exploit in Ethereum, where 20% of the supply sat in the compromised smart contract, as opposed to the infinite mint bug on Bitcoin (21 million –> 184 billion).
Coming to your favorite coin next, but not Zcash.
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Jun 5
Delivering rebel supplies to a rebel base.
📍Zcash Office, Network School, Malaysia
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Zcash has world class security engineers working on it 24/7, which is how this bug was found.
Most crypto protocols are not remotely close to having the same audit capacity.
We're in good hands.
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Jun 2
Zcash unambiguously has the best security response in the world, thanks to @zodl_co and @ZcashFoundation engineers.
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