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Matty Snarks retweeted
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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Matty Snarks retweeted
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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Matty Snarks retweeted
May 23
Didn’t expect $ZEC to suddenly become one of the strongest quantum plays on the market.
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Matty Snarks retweeted
May 21
5 weeks ago I published a zcash:native deep dive for @RealVision Pro. Several things had impressed me at the time. Most still aren't being talked about. 🧵
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Matty Snarks retweeted
May 19
Fantastic discussion re Zcash. Great intro to $ZEC and investment case
LIVE NOW - Crypto Without Privacy Isn’t Crypto: The $ZEC Bull Case
@Mert and @tushar_jain join us to make the case for @Zcash as crypto’s private store of value.
In the episode:
- why privacy may be crypto’s missing primitive,
- the “private Bitcoin” thesis,
- how $ZEC becomes a Schelling point,
- shielded pools, quantum risk, and the return of cypherpunk money.
Enjoy.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Why Multicoin Got Interested in Zcash
5:22 Mert’s Path from Solana to Zcash
9:57 Why Zcash, Why Now?
17:01 The Institutional Path for Private Money
22:03 Zcash as a Private Store of Value
25:27 Fungibility, Tainted Coins, and Financial History
27:26 The Bear Case: Does Anyone Really Care About Privacy?
34:43 Onchain Surveillance and Government Power
39:13 Zcash Tokenomics and the Forgotten Coin Thesis
44:58 The Last PVE in Crypto
50:17 Zcash and the Quantum Threat
59:14 Shielded Pool Growth and Upcoming Catalysts
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Matty Snarks retweeted
May 17
You can also look at what Hal wrote himself such as The Finney Test: x.com/zooko/status/203835374… and such as…
Mar 29
Bitcoin fails the Finney Test.
The Finney Test: “If you see a proposal for an electronic money, check to see whether it has the ability to preserve the privacy of financial transactions the way paper money does today.”
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Matty Snarks retweeted
May 17
Must watch
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In my five-minute, unscripted talk at the Network State conference, I disclosed a private conversation between Hal Finney and me shortly before he died: youtube.com/live/j22fmkUFJl0…
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Matty Snarks retweeted
May 14
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> Transparency is a feature, not a bug
false, actually.
source: satoshi talking about zk privacy in 2010
May 11
Gold is analog capital. Bitcoin is digital capital. Transparency is a feature, not a bug, making $BTC suitable as global collateral. Since we adopted the Bitcoin Standard on Aug. 10, 2020, Bitcoin has outperformed gold with a higher Sharpe ratio.
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Matty Snarks retweeted
May 13
so true
May 13
zcash is the only asset in the entire world that allows you to be long crypto, ai, and quantum all at the same time
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Zcash wouldn't exist without @zooko. He seeded the technical and cultural values of the project that have kept us vigilant in defense of its integrity.
Much of Zcash's recent success has been because Zooko plays a less central role in the project, and it has decentralized and grown to transcend him. I think he would agree! But he is still a major spiritual force of the project, and an ally that wants it to succeed.
Let's be mindful of the signal we send our next generation of risk takers, by how we treat his legacy. Zcash has a long road ahead of it, and no single one of us can carry it across the finish line.
We're all liable to end up in @zooko's shoes one day. You do not want to be on the receiving end of the poetic justice served for the things you said when you were once on the winning team.
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Matty Snarks retweeted
May 11
Being bullish on AI implies you're bullish on Zcash.
Btw, ZEC is an AI stock. More AI means more agentic blockchain analysis, and Zcash is the root supplier of onchain opacity.
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May 11
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