Our mission is to advance technologies that guarantee privacy for humans on the internet.
Our vision is a future where technology defends self-sovereignty and secures human freedom, a digital Bill of Rights, enforced by encryption and code.
Our primary focus towards this end is Zcash – investing in it, accelerating its adoption, and strengthening the ecosystem.
JUST IN: @vizorwallet has shipped BIP39 passphrase support, meaning support for a custom 25th word on top of the regular 24-word seed phrase, in its latest release.
.@mert on why privacy is crypto's last frontier
“First we had to prove that cryptographic money could work — that was Bitcoin. Then Vitalik said, ‘It's sort of weird that this isn't programmable,’ and Ethereum came. Then Solana said, ‘This also has to be scalable’”
“Privacy is implicitly assumed when you talk about Bitcoin to anybody outside the industry. Watch a TV show and Bitcoin shows up as some criminal asking for ransom. Every time I'm like, that is way more traceable than cash. It makes absolutely no sense”
“People think, oh, it's cryptographic money, obviously it must be private. It's not even understood that it's traceable digital gold — as the official Bitcoin account literally says in their bio”
“Hal Finney tweeted about wanting to add anonymity to Bitcoin. In the early forums Satoshi says, if this was possible, referring to using ZK, this would make for a better, more efficient implementation of Bitcoin — but I don't know how to solve the double spend problem”
“ZK was super early then. Zcash didn't exist, there was no production deployment of ZK-SNARKs. But now we have the tech”
“At a time when things you took for granted are being attacked — age verification, AI making sense of unstructured data, the institutionalization of crypto — that's the last frontier”
This one was recommended in both The Anothology of Balaji and Mastering ZCASH.
In the first 10 pages, it becomes clear why ZCASH and NS exists and how will they will benefit the human society.