À Block

ai + crypto + privacy + uranium
engineer, entrepreneur, investor
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]

Zcash is a hedge against surveillance, and the market is very certain about one thing: Zcash will absorb the next decade of capital, earning growth, power demand... for one single reason:
There is no sovereignty without privacy.

[Pierre Rochard @BitcoinPierre]

Bitcoin is a hedge against uncertainty, and the market is very certain about one thing: AI will absorb the next decade of capital, earnings growth, power demand, semiconductor demand, data-center buildout, and productivity upside. BTC crash has nothing to do with Saylor or Iran.

[À Block @aBlock0]

@donaldblakee @Credib1eGuy Bitcoin can be replicable. So what?
Of course zcash can be audited within the privacy limits.
Anyway study and eventually you won't see any reason to keep any btc.

[À Block @aBlock0]

@nic_carter 30 ans, joyeux anniversaire.
Perfect time to take a radical decision that will improve your life considerably.
Sell your btc for zec.
Go from ossification to innovation. From toxicity to freedom.
From maxi metaverse to open world.
From hate to love.
Zillions.

[À Block @aBlock0]

@Pavba5 @ASvanevik It was not offline at all. You can unfollow your KOLs who said that today.

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@TulipSeller @ASvanevik Keep shorting zec sir. Your liquidity is more than welcome.

[À Block @aBlock0]

No. Study zcash.
1. 10 years history and distribution
2. World class devs pushing encryption limits (autofinanced by zec transactions feees)
3. Top of the art cryptography (zksnark, pir, tachyon...).
4. Decentralized
5. Like btc, you can fork it, but the value is the community, devs, network effects. Without this, it is worth zero.
6. Unstoppable money at planetary scale

[À Block @aBlock0]

@tulipking There is no reason to own btc, if you own zec tbh.

[À Block @aBlock0]

@Molson_Hart You definitely can't drink water in China. Water treatment tech and especially the pipes material/quality are very bad in most Chinese buildings (except new districts).

[À Block @aBlock0]

@konstructivizm AI... the Pyrénées arent in the ocean.
Unfollowed

[À Block @aBlock0]

@Unveiled_ChinaX @0xSisyphus zcash mentioned

[À Block @aBlock0]

@chiefingza good luck sir, your liquidity is more than welcome.

[À Block @aBlock0]

1. Obfuscation is not privacy. It is mixing, and likely 'unmixed' soon with quantum/ai
2. ZEC is bitcoin but private, scalable and quantum proof. Imagine the white paper of bitcoin without ossifiied toxicity : private digital cash (21m, pow, 10 years distribution, decentralized)
3. Financing: zcash devs are paid with grants coming from transaction fees. Community vote to choose who get what/how much. No blockstream or need for donations, no big ego deciding for everyone...
See this for more details:
https://t.co/FEoI55wSEu

[À Block @aBlock0]

acting like catching a bug during a routine audit is a bad thing is wild.

an independent researcher found the circuit flaw.
the devs immediately soft forked to disable orchard and protect the network before any exploit could happen.
the orchard pool isn't "insolvent." the entire point of the turnstile mechanism is to publicly verify the exact amount of zec moving between pools, guaranteeing the 21m cap without breaking privacy. there was zero evidence of exploitation.

verifiable math > your "uneasiness."

[À Block @aBlock0]

@chiefingza zcashers may have a different opinion

[À Block @aBlock0]

@Zpartanll7 Every public blockchains has risks as well. Especially with ai/quantum.
For exemple, even if a AI lab was able to access satoshi, we would not know until they move/sell. Transparent or private, the battle is the same.

[À Block @aBlock0]

zcash = cryptographically secure zero-knowledge proofs.
near = hardware enclaves (TEEs) and MPC.
​one is a mathematical law, the other is a security hole waiting to be exploited by state actors. if you want short-term beta, fine. but don't confuse an obfuscation tool with actual unstoppable money.

[À Block @aBlock0]

instantly watched.
listening to zooko is a reminder of what the cypherpunk ethos actually sounds like.

no grifting, no toxicity.

just open dialogue about the brutal realities of innovation and the ambition to build private money for the world.
zillions.

[Maxime Desalle @maxdesalle]

My first interview with Zooko Wilcox (@zooko), co-founder of Zcash.

00:00 Intro
00:40 Why Zooko joined Cypherpunk as advisor
01:42 Quantum computing & Zcash's position
05:09 Bitcoin vs Zcash culture
07:18 What is Crosslink?
09:35 Crosslink benefits: irreversible finality & security budget
14:24 Bitcoin's security budget problem & NSM
18:20 The complexity critique of Crosslink
21:23 NSM, dynamic fees & voting confusion
25:14 Coin-weighted voting
27:55 Tachyon: scalability and post-quantum
32:35 Shielded Labs' enterprise support services
33:38 The T-addresses debate
38:30 The political path forward for Crosslink
43:25 Turnstiles & canary networks
45:28 Zooko's 10-year vision for Zcash

[À Block @aBlock0]

@BrianSchmidt9 @stutxo @stephanlivera blocked? classic maxi behaviour. study why zcash devs are shipping while btc arent.

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@BrianSchmidt9 @stutxo @stephanlivera Which zcash centralized dev team? Please enlighten me.

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@arkham bitcoin => zcash

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@TrustlessState Zone 2 is for meditation or listen to podcasts at 2x.
Protip: zone 2 in nature is never boring.