Zarah 🛡️

🛡️ The future of money is here. Zcash protects your fundamental rights.

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

@EliBenSasson @jswihart Zcash team is the strongest on planet earth.

[Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io @EliBenSasson]

Few are aware that both @Zcash and @StarkWareLtd started as academic whitepapers.

I co-authored both and they're my two most-quoted papers: Zcash ("Zerocash") published in 2014 has 3k+ citations, and the STARKs one from 2018 has 1k+ citations.

I still remember the thrill, joy and work of writing each of them with my brilliant co-authors. But the process for each of them was very different.

The Zcash paper took a very short time to be written, submitted and accepted. First shot. It was immediately recognized as interesting.

The STARKs paper got rejected 4 times till it found its way to acceptance. Along the way it was rewritten and rewritten, to appease the never-ending referees.

I often tell this story about that paper and the accompanying paper on FRI. I heard it from a colleague.
He said "The way to know you have a real breakthrough is when it gets rejected, and referee #1 says its not correct, referee #2 says its not new and referee #3 says its not interesting."

A week later I forwarded him my latest rejection, showing him the referees indeed said the results are wrong, old and lame :-)

Which is why I had even more conviction it'll change the world (which, by the way, it has)

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

@BTCTurtle Sorry for you. Hope you will find soon some Zec

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

I’m happy to see my old friends from Bootstrap—renamed to “Sovright”, but it’s the same people in the same nonprofit with the same treasury—contributing to Zcash again! Decentralizing transaction selection and Zcash mining is a good idea.

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

🧐

@zooko 👀

[Josh Swihart 🛡 @jswihart]

These are the people that acted unethically,
tried to steal Zashi, forced the entire team out, and that you publicly sided with over your old team at ECC.

This is the team that refused to give the treasury, provided by Zcashers via the dev fund, back to the Zcash community, and instead keep it for personal gain for them and their “friends.”

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

@vikrantnyc @cakewallet Sorry to hear. Hope you are fine.

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

@vikrantnyc @Starlink @elonmusk Might be a smart move. Valuation is insane

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

@vikrantnyc @cakewallet @MoneroCom Hi Vik, you are the best. Using ai a lot for investing.

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

@sacha @seams5s @colludingnode I have never been that bullish.

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

@Vladcostea Ecash fork?
What is it?

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

@EliBenSasson @jswihart Zcash team is the strongest on planet earth.

[Jason McGee 🛡 @aquietinvestor]

Unstoppable Private Money

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

@michael2xl This is what makes Zec its strength

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

Thanks to all supporting and contributing to Zec.

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

Never

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

Haha, this is so true. The Zcash true believers and devs have already been through it all and we will literally never give up. Never.

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

Time to buy or be on the sidelines?

[Zarah 🛡️ @BlueMoon_2099]

Great attitude.

[Seth For Privacy @sethforprivacy]

No Monero folks should be looking to dunk on Zcash because of Zooko's post. He did the right thing and was honest about exploitation being undetectable.

We (Monero) have had our own inflation bugs that have thankfully also been resolved, it's a natural downside to building out privacy as the default in these systems.

The important things are:

1. Fixing them quickly
2. Working with stakeholders quickly
3. Being honest and transparent about them so the ecosystem as a whole can learn and improve

[Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io @EliBenSasson]

Well said.

[Seth For Privacy @sethforprivacy]

@elkouaris @_tm3k They hard forked off the entire network but themselves.

[Seth For Privacy @sethforprivacy]

@elkouaris @_tm3k I don’t expect notification if they have proper time to update.

But giving less than 2h warning before they disable the entire ecosystem is insanity and centralizing.