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
Officially 1 month since I switched to a flip phone.
- Everyone is more severely addicted to their smartphones than I thought. Once you have a dumbphone, you'll frequently find yourself as the only person in the room not on their phone. It's not just teenagers, it's parents and adults of all ages. It's like everyone is stuck in a trance. 75+ year olds might be the only exception.
- All the objections I previously had for getting a dumbphone have turned out to be overblown and/or solvable. My iPhone addiction had fed my brain excuses to not do this earlier. If you really want to make the switch, you can.
- I've felt embarrassed to pull out my flip phone in public at times, for fear of being different or drawing too much attention to myself. But I have learned to just own up to it. Most people end up saying something like "Oh, I probably should do that too."
- I am using my brain more. Even though my flip phone has Waze, I find myself memorizing maps and roads. I'm more bored and get lost in my thoughts. I'm using paper and pen more. Increased desire for tangible things > digital things.
Overall, it has been a great experience and I plan on never going back.
@CookerFlips to be fair Arsenals entire style vs top clubs is defensive play so unless you're a diehard football fan that enjoys tactical games you won't have fun watching this one
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Would love some perspective from the Zcash community on this. @ebfull@zooko@mert@arjunkhemani
Would Tachyon create external dependencies?
btw - "socializing the costs" is a standard economics phrase meaning spreading a cost across everyone, here refering to the storage and compute every node currently bears to carry everyone's encrypted notes on-chain - the scaling problem Tachyon is trying to fix.
You made fair points, but slapping "communism" on it in bad faith makes it harder to stay intellectually honest..