À Block 🛡

engineer, entrepreneur, investor
ex bitcoiner, now zcasher
long on humanity

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

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.

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

@HighStakesCap simple. just long zec 3x from 1200 to 10k.

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

@pete_rizzo_ There is one thing you can do to avoid quantum/ai/surveillance risks:
Swap mass surveilled ledger btc to private zec.

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

quick reminder that zcash is unstoppable.

ai expansion, quantum development, fiat printing, mass surveillance are just catalysts making privacy more scare, pushing zcash adoption to trillions.

zend it.

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

@KadunaBull zcash mentioned

[genzcash @genzcash]

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 🛡 @aBlock0]

@HighStakesCap *zcash, now not btc

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

@maxdesalle @cameron @tyler Congrats. Not on Spotify?

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

“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 🛡 @aBlock0]

@nic_carter No, the education spending budget is 30% for teachers pensions. France has a spending problem but really it is the pensions sucking everything. Official pensions budget doesnt show the reality - see this week report from finance minister.

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

@nic_carter The only hope for France is Lisnard, the French Milei.
Le Pen is a socialist.

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

Art from Yuko Shimizu

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

go private, go zcash

[Christian Moss @MandelDuck]

𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗱: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱

George likes his Bitcoin friends but he also likes his non bitcoiner friends, can he manage them both?

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

@nic_carter Same in France sir. Next working day or 2 in Paris.

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

@zoomerfied zcash fixes this

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

@jespow @nic_carter Your best insurance against the system is zcash, Jesse.

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

debasement => scarce
fragmentation => decentralized
surveillance => private
cybersecurity => ai-hardened

tldr: zcash is unstoppable

[Zach Pandl @LowBeta]

The macro case for Zcash in ~10mins ⬇️⬇️

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

zcash is insurance against fiat, surveillance and confiscation.

bitcoin is insurance against transparent zec.

[Naval @naval]

Bitcoin is insurance against fiat.

ZCash is insurance against Bitcoin.

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

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

[Ansem 🐂🀄️ @blknoiz06]

what % of your portfolio is in bitcoin

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

@blknoiz06 @grok compare the results to previous cycles. do you find any alpha in this poll?