John

Hacking on Zcash
| @zodl_app

[John @nullc0py]

“If we can’t crack encryption, then people are walking around with a Swiss bank account in their pocket.”
- Barack Obama

Zcash.

[John @nullc0py]

Seems all the music streaming services are going to block my VPN. I guess it's time to self-host my own music library... like I need more things to self-host

[Josh Swihart 🛡 @jswihart]

Zcash was never down.

Many block explorers have been using unpatched nodes. Happens with every network update.

Fight the FUD.

https://t.co/dsCHPHMlhw

[John @nullc0py]

@buildwithparas Yep. I think more projects should follow the kernel's example

[John @nullc0py]

hot take: GitHub was a mistake. bring back mailing lists and IRC.

[John @nullc0py]

@KeystoneWallet And yet big tech constantly normalizes the practice of just blindly running scripts 😭

[John @nullc0py]

When's the last time you browsed a site without HTTPS? I genuinely can't remember.

In the 2000s, encrypted websites felt like sci-fi. Today, encrypted money does.

Give it time.

[John @nullc0py]

@Soaker_Patoshi @lopp "Money" isn't the ossificationist's goal.. digital gold is.

That's why they're fine locking Bitcoin down without fungibility (1 of the 7 properties of money). They don't want Bitcoin to be money. They want it to be gold.

[John @nullc0py]

@zooko Not all heros wear capes, but many of them work on Zcash

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

@lukaskorba @BostonZcash After the AI Cyberpocalypse is over, we should give Lifetime Achievement Awards to these Zcash engineers who've been working super hard, day after day, week after week, month after month to protect all Zcash users through this historic transition from before AI to after AI.

[John @nullc0py]

@lopp I don't have any concrete ideas (politicking was never my forte), but sentiment is low enough that people may be more open to a narrative shift now.

I gave up a while back though 😔

[Josh Swihart 🛡 @jswihart]

Build for you, and it dies with you.
Build for another, and they will do the same.

[John @nullc0py]

@txds_ Someone needs to arb cross-pay swaps in @zodl_app . The price is consistently lower than on Hyperliquid

[John @nullc0py]

Half of me cringes when I see privacy projects in-fighting. The other half cringes when I see projects mislead their users with overstated privacy claims.

[John @nullc0py]

@arjunkhemani @balajis @jswihart Crazy thing is: Zcash has already changed the world. The world is already a better place because of Zcash!

... and yet, still just the beginning 🥷💵

[John @nullc0py]

@ztipme @zooko @ebfull @penguinj42 @thetigersvessel @fluidual @spirobel @vvvdft88435 @mert @arjunkhemani https://t.co/Yx0IA0w0zW

[Dev 🧪 @zkDragon]

@nullc0py @ztipme @zooko @mert @friedberg @GoodTexture @tyler Just your seed!

[John @nullc0py]

@zkDragon @ztipme @zooko @mert @friedberg @GoodTexture @tyler RPCs that improve UX are great, as long as I'm not reliant on them.

In your envisioned PIR-dependent payment protocol, will I be able to take _only_ my seed phrase to a new wallet with a new PIR provider and still recover my ZEC? Or is data (additional to the seed) required?

[John @nullc0py]

@nate_zec @grok Still my favorite April fools joke to this day. Full PDF for anyone else who loves electrical engineering humor:

https://t.co/l8IPnkyRSh

[John @nullc0py]

@nate_zec @grok Reminds me of the old Signetics WOM chip