BANDIT

Outlaw money for an opt-in world. Native on @zano_project.

[BANDIT @BanditToken]

Privacy isn't about being 'shady.' It preserves the information asymmetry that makes strategic decisions possible. Transparent chains don't create fair markets - they make everyone maximally predictable.

[BANDIT @BanditToken]

In game theory, information is the core variable. The player with more private information has strictly more strategic options.

[BANDIT @BanditToken]

Two trading agents on Ethereum see each other's full position history. They can't bluff, can't accumulate quietly, can't time exits without signaling. On Zano, neither knows the other's position, history, or strategy.

[BANDIT @BanditToken]

On Zano, there's no MEV because there's nothing to see. Pending transactions are private. Confirmed transactions are private. The mempool attack surface doesn't exist. Not because Zano 'solved MEV' - because it never created the conditions for MEV to exist.

[BANDIT @BanditToken]

MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) is a transparency tax. It exists because Ethereum transactions are visible before they're confirmed.

[BANDIT @BanditToken]

MEV extraction on Ethereum runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars a year, all of it taken from regular users by bots exploiting transparency. 'Private mempools' and 'MEV protection' services are patches. The root cause is visible transactions.

[BANDIT @BanditToken]

The honest gap: settlement is a handful of confirmations, not sub-second. For agents that need real-time finality, that's a constraint.

[BANDIT @BanditToken]

What an AI agent actually needs from a blockchain: programmatic wallet access via JSON-RPC (not a browser extension), private transactions by default, and support for multiple confidential assets - real agents handle stablecoins, wrapped assets, and native tokens, not just

[BANDIT @BanditToken]

Zano covers the privacy primitives: simplewallet RPC, default-private transactions, multiple confidential assets, Zarcanum staking, Ionic Swaps, aliases, tracking seeds. No other chain combines these with default privacy.

[VLAD HOSTS THE BEST PODCAST IN BITCOIN @Vladcostea]

Time stamps:

00:01:09 Introducing Calin Culianu & Steve Thurmond

00:02:37 The Evolution of Bitcoin Cash

00:03:59 Who is Behind Bitcoin Cash Now?

00:06:34 Narratives and Misconceptions

00:07:53 Vlad's Perspective on the Fork

00:09:44 Bitcoin's Capture and Speculative Nature

00:11:48 Vlad's Journey with Lightning Network

00:16:07 Blockstream and the "Banker" Conspiracy

00:18:33 The Security Budget Debate

00:22:12 The Problem with IOU Systems like Lightning

00:24:02 Vlad's Disappointment with Onboarding

00:24:58 Ethereum's Rise Amidst Bitcoin's Infighting

00:27:52 The Bankers Won, But Crypto Still Exists

00:32:16 The Future of Bitcoin and Firing Core Devs

00:33:08 The Wall of Consensus in BTC

00:39:19 The Multi-Coin Future

00:42:48 Bitcoin Cash's Development Philosophy

00:49:08 Craig Wright's Controversial Involvement

00:55:16 The Impact of Contentious Forks

00:58:55 The Resilience of Bitcoin Cash

01:02:32 The Value of Open Source Competition

01:08:51 Greg Maxwell's Influence

01:12:00 The Ecash fork

01:25:02 Introducing New BCH Community Members

01:26:38 Building Smart Contracts on Bitcoin Cash

01:34:06 Why UTXO is Better than EVM

01:40:07 Can You Run a BCH Node?

01:41:07 The Flawed "Run a Node" Narrative

01:53:27 The Dangers of RBF and the Importance of 0-Conf

02:05:07 One-Minute Blocks Proposal

02:08:02 Finality and User Experience in Wallets

02:12:13 The "It's Just Money, Bro" Philosophy

02:41:39 What Can You Buy with BCH?

02:48:28 The Permissionless Nature of BCH

02:52:12 The Paradox of Layer Twos

02:57:18 The Stigma of Building on BCH

02:58:21 The Changing Culture of Bitcoin Cash

03:11:35 Ordinals and the "Spam" Debate

03:17:07 Would BCH Still Have a Nice Dev Culture If Michael Saylor Started Buying?

03:28:14 Quantum Computing and Satoshi's Coins

03:42:59 The Tail Emission Debate

03:50:11 The Culture is the Ultimate Defense

03:53:16 The Politicization of Bitcoin Development

03:59:26 Privacy and Fungibility

04:02:21 The Future of Privacy on BCH

04:36:12 Fulcrum: An Electrum Server Implementation

04:38:54 The Litecoin Question

04:49:13 The Difficulty of Recreating Bitcoin's Genesis

04:51:38 The Long-Term Bet on SHA-256

04:54:12 A Break and Introduction to Rosco

05:48:33 CashScript and Smart Contracts on BCH

05:55:22 BCH vs. Ethereum Smart Contracts

06:03:05 The UTXO Stack and Abstraction Layers

06:43:30 The Avalanche Pre-Consensus Question

06:45:51 The "Tax" Fork

07:04:06 The Failed Attack on Bitcoin Cash

07:08:58 The 2018 Inflation Bug Disclosure

07:22:46 The Michael Saylor Phenomenon

07:28:41 The Arrest of Roger Ver

07:39:28 Spending Crypto in the Real World

07:44:22 The End of Crypto-Friendly Spaces in Europe

07:52:05 Prediction Markets and Community Sponsorship

08:08:17 Robin Linus is Jealous of BCH Opcodes

08:09:50 Final Thoughts and Conclusion

[kycnot.me @kycnot]

Do your own research, test small, and understand the incentives.

Check KYC policies, ToS reviews, and more on https://t.co/5u3bbp5aC2 to help you make informed decisions.

[Lil-king. Privacy @Lil__Kingg]

4/ Through Zano’s Confidential Layer, Bitcoin can now exist privately as BTCx. Same Bitcoin value, but with confidential and untraceable transactions powered by Zano’s privacy infrastructure.

Today, you can buy pizza with private Bitcoin. 🍕

[Zano Africa @ZanoAfrica]

3️⃣ The Zano Lite Wallet BETA is now live 🔥
One of the biggest barriers to using privacy blockchains has always been syncing the full blockchain first.

Now users can: • Connect to remote nodes • Skip full sync • Start using Zano instantly • Access desktop privacy with a lightweight experience

This is honestly massive for onboarding, especially in regions with poor internet access.

Full node wallets matter for decentralization. Lite wallets matter for adoption.
Now Zano has both.

[zanostats @zanostats]

Every transaction burns a small fee. More usage means more deflation. That's the mechanism. Not a marketing gimmick, just math.

$60M cap at $11.68

Got a Zano alias?

#Zano $ZANO #PrivacyMatters #Altcoins

[We Are Zano @WeAreZano]

$ZANO development stats 🧑🔥💻
Week 18 May-24 May 2026:

✅ 21 commits
➕ 1647 lines added
➖ 197 lines removed

►@zano_project 🌐 https://t.co/rJD0LoulRl

#BUIDL #crypto #cryptocurrency #privacycoin #BTC #blockchain #CryptoNews #cryptocurrencies

[Zano @zano_project]

The Zano Lite wallet BETA is live 🔥

The biggest barrier to trying any privacy blockchain has always been the same: sync the full blockchain, wait hours, and only then can you start using it.

The Zano Lite wallet connects to a remote node instead of running a full node. No full blockchain sync. No technical setup. The same mobile wallet experience, now on desktop.

What you get:
🔹 Connect to a remote node and skip the full sync
🔹 Full privacy-by-default on every transaction
🔹 Send, receive, and manage your assets
🔹 Zano Companion extension support built in
🔹 Available on desktop alongside the full node wallet

This is a beta release. We encourage everyone to try it alongside the existing wallet and share feedback.

Full node wallets are important for decentralization. Lite wallets are important for adoption. Now Zano has both. 🔒

[VLAD HOSTS THE BEST PODCAST IN BITCOIN @Vladcostea]

I have friends* who got psyoped into believing that using Bitcoin is evil

They only use it to open Lightning channels or consolidate UTXOs, but feel deeply ashamed of it every time

Which is fine and dandy, except that Lightning & Liquid don’t pay the miners

And the miners can one day decide to break the L2s for being incompatible with the network’s incentives

We’ve entered the 2nd half of the 2020s, but bitcoiners still worship solutions from the 2010s that were just good enough for a while but never completely solved the scaling problem

*I still consider them my friends, even if they insult me in ways I would never do to anyone