what's crazy about zcash is that it's performing this well in the face of widespread fake news attacks (no, network was not down at all)
and one of the coldest crypto markets in a long time
it hasn't even experienced a bull market yet
You will be blindzided.
Zcash is not competing on "added features" in some simple, single-cycle fashion.
Transparency and quantum susceptibility are baked into Bitcoin and can't be addressed with bandage layers.
Zcash has been preparing for this moment for ten years. Privacy is absolutely necessary for SoV, and it's a first-class property of the protocol—you can't just add privacy at another layer. What Zcash does simply cannot be done by the other protocols listed here.
And Zcash has spent years fighting regulation and delisting barriers and won.
Quantum resistant design has long been on the radar and has had the way paved for. There is a concrete proposal on the roadmap. It's not something Bitcoin can just "fix in a year". Even if Bitcoin "got its shit together", already implausible given the history of governance, it would be a major undertaking.
You will be blindzided because your threat model doesn't account for something like Zcash.
I meme a lot but i actually do think this pair continues to go up, zcash currently trades at lower than 1/100th of bitcoin's total valuation w/ better quantum resistant properties while privacy is becoming a popular narrative
concerns w/ saylor as key man risk also materializing
should be closer to 1/10th valuation, which would be ~.1zec per btc
.@brian_armstrong says it's surprising that crypto has gotten as big as it has... on a public surveillance ledger... and that it's time for crypto to transition from HTTP (full transparency) to HTTPS (privacy)
We agree
That's why we're building on Zcash
.@jswihart: It’s got to be so big that’s it is impossible to kill.
“One of the awesome things that’s happening within Zcash right now is that more and more developers are coming in, more and more organizations that are supporting it that are adding the capability, there’s more source code being written.
We definitely need to be too big to kill and we need to get ZEC in the hands of billions of people.”
Even if you ignore everything else about zcash:native other than the price history it's still one of the most interesting projects of all-time
>price went -97% down only for 7.67 years
>that's 92 months straight
>that's 400 weeks
>that's 2,800 days
And then +3,620% in a couple months
We may never see something like this happen ever again