maxlevelskitzo

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

@PorterNovaX Bitcoin

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@NewThoughtsW This explains a lot..
PayPal mafia also suggests Americans should “compromise with their privacy”. For a “privacy” chain you all are quite compliant

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

@PerpetualCow I feel poor now.

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

@NewThoughtsW 7fig hell

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Selling all my ZEC (or should I say “SEC”). the community is full of larps pushing bs narratives and being intellectually dishonest.

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

@LTekoo2 Nobody used zec. monero does 4x the daily tx. We aren’t the same

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

@EgyptianMaxi Im sure the paypal mafia gives a fuck about privacy lol. thus they pick the most centralized project available

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

Your “privacy” talk is pure self-interest.
Zcash isn’t inherently private. Most activity still runs transparent by default, and only full shielded (z→z) actually hides anything. You’re not fighting for privacy, you’re stacking bags and running a mining fleet through Cypherpunk so you and your brother get richer off a coin that still looks like Bitcoin for the majority of users.

Painting this false narrative that you’re the privacy champions while dismissing actual privacy work (and blocking MWEB) does more long-term damage to Zcash than any critic ever could. People notice when the biggest holders start rewriting reality to protect their position.

If you actually gave a fuck about financial privacy instead of exit liquidity and marketing, you’d be using your platform and White House access to push for the Samourai Wallet developers instead of performing concern. Code is speech. Non-custodial privacy tools shouldn’t land people in prison. Silence on that speaks louder than any Zcash shill post.

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

@N1archv

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

Zcash just got its ETF (ZCSH) listed on NYSE Arca with full SEC blessing.
That’s not a win for privacy. That’s the death certificate for its privacy claims.

You don’t get Wall Street packaging, Coinbase custody, BNY Mellon admin, and regulatory green lights unless the privacy is optional and can be turned off for compliance. The ETF holds transparent ZEC. The “privacy coin” narrative is marketing for retail while the real product institutions buy is fully auditable

If the privacy was real and mandatory, there would be no ETF. Period.
Also, While they’re celebrating at the White House for getting the SEC stamp of approval, maybe someone should mention the Samourai developers currently sitting in federal prison for building actual privacy tools that didn’t compromise.

[ᴜɴᴛʀᴀᴄᴇᴀʙʟᴇ @DontTraceMeBruh]

No not that kind of freedom dude

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

@LTekoo2 @MoneroChanSOL @grok adding shielded to zcash doesnt matter as optional privacy breaks anonymity 🤣
I still hold more ZEC than you

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

Monero’s core on-chain privacy features have not been cryptographically broken in a way that allows reliable, arbitrary tracking of modern transactions purely from the blockchain. Tracking that occurs in practice almost always depends on user operational security failures, off-chain data, or external metadata rather than a fundamental failure of ring signatures, RingCT, or stealth addresses. Where you claim "monero still uses ring sigs and has been tracked many times" is just a lie with no substance except in the case of zcash.

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

The Zcash defense post is mostly cope mixed with selective truths.

Orchard/Halo 2 and the new Ironwood pool no longer use a trusted setup. That part is true. What the post conveniently skips is that Orchard itself had a multi-year counterfeiting vulnerability discovered in 2026 that required an emergency hard fork and an entirely new pool (Ironwood) with a turnstile just so users can verify the supply wasn’t inflated. Privacy designs that make inflation undetectable until someone finds the bug are a recurring feature, not a bug of the history. “We fixed it again” is not the flex you think it is.

Zcash did not have a pure fair launch. The Founders’ Reward took 20% of every block for the first four years (roughly 10% of total eventual supply) straight to founders, investors, advisors, and ECC. Later “dev funds” continued the extraction. Calling this “the fairest distribution in crypto” while claiming Bitcoin was “premined by Hal Finney and Satoshi” is pure revisionism. Bitcoin had zero premine — open mining from block 1. Satoshi mined a large early share because almost nobody else was there. Monero had zero premine, zero instamine, zero founder allocation, and pure open mining. The “64% in the first two years to a handful of whales” claim is exaggerated nonsense. Monero’s curve was front-loaded by design so the network bootstrapped securely; anyone could mine it.
“Stay in the shielded pool and you have superior privacy and harder money” only works if users actually do it consistently and the pool is large. Zcash’s privacy is optional. For years the overwhelming majority of activity was transparent. Even now, with shielded supply around 28%, total daily transactions sit around 7,000. A large chunk of those are still transparent or involve t-addresses that break the privacy model the moment you touch an exchange. Monero makes every transaction private by default. No opt-out, no taint from transparent history, real fungibility. Daily on-chain activity has consistently run several times higher than Zcash’s total volume for years. Those numbers are the actual market verdict on which coin people use for private transactions.

Tail emission is not why “the price will never go up.” It is a deliberate design choice for long-term security so the network does not depend on fee markets alone. Low single-digit and declining inflation is not the catastrophe Zcash maximalists pretend it is.

Monero remains the default choice for actual private transactions because privacy is mandatory, the launch was clean, there is no company or foundation skimming issuance for years, and the network has proven itself under real adversarial use. Zcash has stronger pure cryptography when fully shielded and better regulatory optics (which is exactly why exchanges and institutions tolerate it more). Those are different products. One is built for optional privacy that plays nice with compliance. The other is built so every transfer is private by default. The daily transaction counts show which one people actually reach for when they need the latter.
LLM minimizes recognition in writing patterns. correct inputs/details

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

Monero doesnt need trust or middlemen. Thats the whole point of its battle tested design built and maintained by CCs.

You run your own node (prunable to a fraction of the chain size, Tor/I2P native support), use the official GUI or CLI wallet, and send peer-to-peer. No companies, no CEOs, no pre-mine, no foundation controlling anything; just math, open-source code, and a decentralized network of CPU miners via RandomX. Its history proves it works under real adversarial conditions:
https://t.co/rRmCl5ftZo

Launched April 2014 as a clean CryptoNote fork. Mandatory privacy (ring signatures + stealth addresses + RingCT) has never had a confirmed protocol-level break of sender, receiver, or amounts despite sustained academic, commercial, and government scrutiny (including IRS bounties).
https://t.co/v4ML3FXCjs

Survived the most aggressive regulatory assault on any crypto: ~73 exchange delistings in 2025 alone (Binance, Kraken EEA, OKX, and dozens more under MiCA/FATF pressure). On-chain activity stayed stable or rose; liquidity simply shifted to atomic swaps, P2P markets, and decentralized venues. Price even hit multi-year highs afterward
https://t.co/EwwtLtgmTF

That’s the cypherpunk model in practice: you don’t “trust” Monero the way you trust an exchange or a company-backed coin. You verify the open-source code, run the software yourself, and rely on cryptography + economic incentives that have already withstood governments, delistings, and hashrate games for over a decade. Middlemen are optional; the network itself isn’t. Use multi-sig

[NPTBRO @NPTBRO]

@MoneroChanSOL How do you use it without trust or middlemen?

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

@LTekoo2 @MoneroChanSOL If you think ZEC is “encrypted” try again.
Shielded notes exist, but default transparent txs, trusted setup history, and optional privacy don’t make it the encrypted cypherpunk dream you keep cosplaying. Monero is private by default. Cope harder.

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

@drukknoopje solana disgusts me

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Monero is a top 3 community in crypto
https://t.co/1rMyASio0X

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

@FunYh48238 https://t.co/ZHFGNiBifX

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why does monero have 17x the community size of zcash?

[maxlevelskitzo @MaxLvlSkitzo]

@FunYh48238 https://t.co/mSazxZaNtw
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Mostly active on dread and telegram. Id recommend IRC and Matrix as well