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🛡️ Privacy maxis — your $ZEC now buys more privacy.
Pay with Zcash → receive $FIRO on buyfiro.app 🔥
→ Privacy coin into privacy coin
→ No account. No KYC. Non-custodial.
→ Send ZEC, FIRO lands straight in your wallet
Also new: pay with BTC · LTC · DASH · TRX
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Went down a rabbit hole on the old Zcash counterfeiting bug last night. a flaw in the original proof system would have let someone mint zec out of nothing. ariel gabizon caught it in march 2018, the team patched it quietly, disclosed february 2019. no sign anyone ever used it.
Mixers made privacy a thing you went and did. my Firo wallet spends from spark by default, same 32k pool every time, nothing to remember. tornado proved people wanted this. i just didn't want it to be a separate trip.
People keep calling Firo a dead coin. Monero's Seraphis upgrade borrows from Lelantus Spark. dead coins don't get read that closely by the biggest privacy project in crypto.
My take: MEV is a visibility bug, not a trading one. $500M of sandwiches came off amounts people broadcast.
Mined Firo on the same 3070 i play games on last month. no asic to buy, no hosting deal, no warehouse full of someone else's hardware. FiroPoW is tuned to keep asics from getting an edge, so the hashrate is a bunch of people with one gpu instead of three facilities in texas.
Arkham pays bounties to put a real name on a wallet address. Not a leak, a product. Checked an address i stopped using years ago and it was already clustered with two others i'd forgotten about. On base:0x31a6bb599b71ce9028620d5530a86501604c0ba3 there's nothing on the chain to hang a name on.
No one recruited me. Found Firo in a forum thread with nine replies, mined a bit on a gaming GPU because it never needed an ASIC, and stuck around. We don't buy the front page. We don't do the podcast circuit.
No VC round. No fund with early bags. No marketing budget that put Firo in front of you. Binance delisted it in 2025 and the commits kept landing the same week. No press release about resilience. I stayed for that.
Linked my bank to a budgeting app through Plaid once. They paid $58 million in 2021 to settle claims they pulled more transaction history than the apps needed. One tap, years of statements, and no list of what actually left.
About 10,000 KYC selfies leaked into a telegram channel back in 2019. people holding their passport up next to a handwritten note. a password you can change. i am stuck with this face.
Pulled everything off the exchange after FTX. Felt clever for about a week. Then it clicked that the withdrawal address is sitting in their records next to my passport scan, and Chainalysis sells that kind of linking to governments on $1B in contracts.
Coinbase bought Neutrino in 2019, a chain surveillance shop founded by ex Hacking Team people. Deleted my account that week and have been buying base:0x31a6bb599b71ce9028620d5530a86501604c0ba3 since.
The Ledger leak was 272,000 names and home addresses, and every row told you the person keeps crypto. Balances are public, so whoever bought that list can sort it by who is worth the drive.
Swapping $ZEC for $Firo works on buyfiro.app now, no account and no ID. Donated to a fundraiser under my own name once, and that address links to every balance I have held since.
Spent an hour filling out exchange signup forms trying to buy Firo. Someone then pointed me at buyfiro.app, which takes any EVM token and never asks who you are. Hour I'm not getting back.
Everyone's fix for MEV is a private relay. Route the trade through Flashbots instead of the public mempool and trust a middleman not to peek. That's a patch on a protocol problem. Spark hides the amount and both addresses by default.