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20 reasons why zcash is going to 250k+
1. zcash is literally the only viable candidate for global digital cash. period.
2. it brings cryptographic privacy to a space that has slowly devolved into open-source surveillance.
3. bitcoin was engineered to be peer-to-peer electronic cash but got lazy and settled for ossified digital gold.
4. humans have never been this heavily surveilled. on-chain privacy isn't a feature; it's survival infrastructure.
5. the engineering talent density is unmatched: zooko, bowe, zkdragon, the zodl team. elite builders don't stick around ghost chains.
6. the culture is built to relentlessly ship and push boundaries: pioneered zk-SNARKs, now pioneering quantum-resistant recovery layers.
7. zero predatory VCs, zero saylor premium, zero institutional overhead pushing for the kind of ossification that kills protocols long-term.
8. architected from day one to scale for billions of people via massive pipeline upgrades like tachyon and next-gen shielded wallets.
9. there is literally zero competition. zcash is natively encrypted. everything else is a transparent public ledger or a clunky, mixed-in band-aid.
10. the onboarding narrative is ridiculously simple: "you can buy bitcoin at $555 today." it's just bitcoin but private and actually unstoppable.
11. the reflexivity loop is violent: price ticks up -> new buyers enter -> more zec enters the shielded pool -> circulating supply collapses -> price rockets.
12. the deepest bitcoin OGs are quietly positioned: winklevoss, naval, balaji, barry silbert... and zooko literally worked at digicash and wrote the first blog post to ever mention bitcoin.
13. bitcoin paved the dirt path from magic internet money to digital gold. zcash is building the hyper-highway: absolute encrypted money for billions.
14. transparent blockchains are an inherent bug for enterprise adoption. no real business is broadcasting its entire treasury, payroll, and margin to competitors on a public ledger.
15. transparent coins face a terminal fungibility crisis because of taint. zcash solves this mathematically: one shielded ZEC is always indistinguishable from another.
16. regulatory compliance does not require financial doxxing. viewing keys let you selectively disclose transaction history to an auditor without leaking your net worth to the timeline.
17. the ux barrier is officially dead. shielding used to require a complex cypherpunk ritual; now it's a seamless, 1-click native default in modern wallets (zodl...)
18. proof-of-work bootstrapping is the only way to launch a truly sovereign network without a cabal of insiders pre-mining the supply and dumping on retail.
19. Wall Street completely financialized and captured bitcoin to extract value from retail via proxies. zcash remains the untamable, raw cypherpunk asset.
20. the second the global market realizes a transparent public ledger is a permanent surveillance weapon, privacy flips from a luxury to an absolute human right. that's when the repricing hits.
a decade of zcash today.
in 10 years, an ai-dominated world without privacy is dystopian by design. zcash will be:
- the global benchmark SoV
- instant, native on-chain cash for billions
- the institutional reserve asset free from surveillance dragnets
the cypherpunk promise realized at planetary scale.
trillions
À Block 🛡 retweeted
happy 10y to zcash
we've rekindled the fire that represents the best of crypto against all odds
the best cryptographers & missionaries working on sovereign, encrypted, quantum-safe money at planetary scale
what crypto was always meant to be
the fire only gets bigger from here
À Block 🛡 retweeted
ZCG is done.
00:00 Intro
01:09 Replacing ZCG with markets
02:20 Committees don’t work
03:10 Grantees elect the committee that funds them
04:28 ZCAP is illegitimate
06:28 ZCG has already 20 years of runway
08:43 No compromises
09:00 ZSAs
10:59 Two paths for ZCG
11:29 The proposal
12:25 Takeaway
À Block 🛡 retweeted
this year alone: formal verification, block time speedups, PIR, quantum recoverability, and an entirely new node client
tachyon and full quantum proofing on track this very second!
this shows that "ossification" is empirically and demonstrably incorrect. there is absolutely zero argument there.
"if idea that I like doesn't get accepted by the node operators and devs, then it's ossified" is a false and emotional frame
zcash adds, evolves and upgrades plenty -- and is arguably top 2 in all of crypto right now on this specific dimension
À Block 🛡 retweeted
Imagine a state where you pay taxes but don't get to vote on how it's spent.
That's Zcash today with ZCG.
Every block, coinholders are diluted to fund a committee they can’t elect.
Coinholder funds should be coinholder controlled.
À Block 🛡 retweeted
Dev Ojha’s full talk on the path to scaling Zcash at Token2049 Singapore.
Timestamps:
00:00 - The dream of digital cash
01:29 - Satoshi can’t spend his coins
03:18 - Making Zcash quantum recoverable
04:44 - Scaling encrypted money to the entire world
05:35 - Tachyon changes the scaling problem
07:23 - Zakura: scaling Proof of Work
08:35 - Privacy is the real scaling bottleneck
10:01 - Private Information Retrieval changes everything
À Block 🛡 retweeted
“Without privacy, there can be no fungibility, and without fungibility, there is no sovereignty.”
“Bitcoin was created as a parallel system to fiat money, but its lack of privacy could cause it to acquire one of fiat money’s worst properties: permission.”
“Only encrypted money at scale has a chance at securing a free future.”
À Block 🛡 retweeted
𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗱: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱
George likes his Bitcoin friends but he also likes his non bitcoiner friends, can he manage them both?
debasement => scarce
fragmentation => decentralized
surveillance => private
cybersecurity => ai-hardened
tldr: zcash is unstoppable
why will btc pump, alts bleed and zec pump massively?
retail is underallocated btc and this validate once again the SoV thesis. if we look at previous polls from ansem, this peak underallocation leads to btc leading with alt underperforming.
however, this time is different (tm)
there is an other hard money competing in the sov arena : zcash.
while most alts will likely bleed against btc, smart money will rotate into the best digital sov assets : btc (the og) and zec.
zec is the only true sov competitor of btc and the timing is perfect:
- quantum computing threats will continue to increase: expect major dramas around satoshi/old coins, protocol upgrade, bitcoin ethos....)
- ai pushing the de-anonimization of btc and proving that the ultimate sov must be private. pseudonimity is a myth, it is either private or public.
- zcash tachyon launch in january : massive scaling + groundwork for post-quantum resistant signatures.
private hard money is unstoppable.
trillions
À Block 🛡 retweeted
We condensed Tachyon’s design into a video that walks anyone familiar with Zcash’s protocol through each change.