Sean Bowe

Zcash cofounder, protocol developer and crypto researcher. Encrypted Money at Planetary Scale ( Zakura Maintainer (

[David Hoffman @TrustlessState]

Just got finished recording this

A 1hr40min complete masterclass on the @Zcash roadmap

@zkDragon and @ebfull are incredible. I knew a lot about Zcash already, but I underestimated the magnitude of the challenges being overcome by the zcash devs

tl;dr: zillions

[Sean Bowe @ebfull]

@PelicanInvasion @vizorwallet The only time you want to hear her say "wait, that's it?" is after the Vizor transaction completes.

[Sean Bowe @ebfull]

Wife switched to @vizorwallet because she could have a cat in a hoodie as her wallet avatar. Then she stayed because it was absurdly fast at everything.

[josh lee @dogemos]

@velucxa @vizorwallet it's your wallet developer's wallet

https://t.co/X8yUVeIATJ

[Dev @zkDragon]

Over the last month, the zakura runtime has gone from dependencies with 250+ aggregate maintainers to now sub 100. And it is only decreasing.

This is the lowest to have ever existed in zcash’s rust nodes

[genzcash @genzcash]

25 second blocks coming to Zcash in 2 weeks.

[Cypherpunk @cypherpunk]

JUST IN: @ZakuraZcash 1.7.0 is out, activating NU7 on Mainnet in ~15 days.

[Sean Bowe @ebfull]

NU7 is finally activating on Zcash! Zakura 1.7.0 activates it on height 3543405, which is the evening of November 5 for us Americans.

Blocks will occur three times faster in Zcash. Other changes like NSM funding and retiring the Sprout pool appear in this upgrade as well.

[Zakura @ZakuraZcash]

New Zakura Release: 1.7.0

This release activates NU7 on Mainnet in ~15 days. 🎉

Learn more:

https://t.co/2VAtjdtMWC

[Zakura @ZakuraZcash]

New Zakura Release: 1.7.0

This release activates NU7 on Mainnet in ~15 days. 🎉

Learn more:

https://t.co/2VAtjdtMWC

[David Hoffman @TrustlessState]

Friday, I record with @zkDragon and @ebfull for technical coverage of the Zcash roadmap

What would you like to know?

[harsh @bajpaiharsh244]

November 5, Encrypted bitcoin becomes 40x faster than unencrypted Bitcoin :)

[Zakura @ZakuraZcash]

Zcash's NU7 Mainnet activation height is being set to 3,543,405 (~November 5) as part of final changes to ZIP 259.

We've reflected this on our NU7 dashboard: https://t.co/daOj9VDHip

[Vizor - Zcash Wallet @vizorwallet]

Stay shielded with Vizor

[evan 🌸 @evansforbes]

you might recall @jadler0's talks about resource pricing w/ smart contracts

the same concepts apply to p2p networks!

IFF we can verify that every byte is useful and carefully budgeted, then it's actually perfectly safe to send Gbps of bandwidth to randos on the internet

[Zakura @ZakuraZcash]

Zcash nodes must stay useful under attack.

Here’s how our new P2Pv2 stack uses resource budgets and backpressure to limit the work peers can trigger.

https://t.co/rkwsmWS5zU

[Laura Shin @laurashin]

Zakura has published a design, still in review, that would give every Zcash address posted during a NEAR Intents swap its own viewing key. The aim: a future quantum computer that cracks one address learns about one swap, not a wallet's whole payment history.

https://t.co/ET1HoLHaLC

[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

[PelicanInvasion @PelicanInvasion]

Zcash is the only top to bottom project building the end state of cypherpunk money

[evan 🌸 @evansforbes]

we've been putting in a lot of thought into @ZakuraZcash's new p2p stack

It needs to serve as a future proof scaffolding for the rest of zcash

- high throughput
- low latency
- "strictly typed" DoS resistance
- shared consensus engine for light and full clients
- permissionless addition to the network
- advanced property testing