If you want to understand the origins of Zcash and why it matters, read the Cypherpunk's Manifesto.
@cypherpunk $CYPH was founded on these values and our mission is to support, foster, and promote them far and wide. Onward.
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@cameron: "Cash was centralized but private. Bitcoin took a big leap forward in creating decentralized money, but it's public, and Zcash completes the arc because it's decentralized money that is private."
Zcash is a technology that preserves and expands human rights. It protects your financial privacy in the age of AI — the antidote to AI-fueled surveillance and tyranny.
My first interview with @cameron and @tyler.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold
1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
2:28 The first internet-native money
3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
4:47 Money has always been private
5:31 The true separation of money and state
6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants
9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years
11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles
13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
16:04 Gold is abundant in space
17:27 Why start Cypherpunk
19:05 The coming war on privacy
19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance
22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains
25:10 “I have nothing to hide”
27:11 Einstein at the patent office
29:14 Self-censorship in academia
29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
30:41 Outro
Staking 2.0 @Gemini
TL;DR:
-designed to meet customer demand for more staking assets while keeping reliability at the center of our mission. @HyperliquidX became our 4th supported asset last month, attracting more than $16 million in AUM.
-the new platform gives you a consistent way to stake, unstake, and earn rewards, while handling each blockchain’s specific operations behind the scenes. Retryable workflows and near-real-time checks help it recover from interruptions and surface differences early.
-since Staking 2.0 launched, staking activity has continued to grow while system-related support tickets have declined. AI workflows helped accelerate the rebuild, with engineers overseeing design and critical decisions.
Onward.
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At some point during our fireside at @token2049, @cameron asked the audience to raise their hands if they owned Zcash. About 10 hands went up in a room of full of thousands of people.
it's early.
Level-headed take by Ben Affleck. Ironic because Hollywood has the reputation for world-class bullshitting. When it comes to AI, however, Silicon Valley wins the Oscar for best dramatic performance.
@will__mcevoy on the Zcash mining opportunity:
"There is a massive opportunity in Zcash mining. It is extremely profitable"
"So many Bitcoin miners unplugged their machines, outfitted their data centers for AI and HPC, and said: come plug in your GPUs and pay us for that"
"AI colocation was definitely a good step up for them, but it is nowhere close to Zcash mining"
.@cameron: “We filed today for a Zcash ETF.
13 years ago we did the same thing for a Bitcoin ETF. The price of Bitcoin in 2013 was $100.
13 years later, this is the sequel, and we filed for the Winklevoss Zcash ETF.
And so we’re excited about that, and just to give people access to this asset class who may want to buy Zcash in a brokerage account because they can’t hold Zcash, the asset, and they want exposure to privacy, which is an asset, and it’s a declining asset.
It’s a very precious asset.”