“If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.”
— @JeffBezos
If you've eaten so much that it's not healthy to eat more and you don't want to eat more, and you still eat more anyway "to finish the food", then you are just using your mouth as a garbage can.
I have never been more bullish on crypto.
Because the rules-based order is collapsing and the code-based order is rising. So the short term price doesn’t matter.
As international law breaks down, we will need not just onchain currencies, but onchain companies. As the post-war order breaks down, we’ll similarly need the post-internet order. States will fail, and the network will take their place.
We need internet capitalism, we need internet democracy, and we need internet privacy. So we need cryptocurrency.
This is a weird comparison, but Zcash reminds me a lot of BitTorrent.
BitTorrent famously survived the P2P filesharing wars because it was the only filesharing protocol that didn't demean themselves by marketing toward illegal piracy. @bramcohen refused to ever make BitTorrent about warez or pirating music—it was always in the spirit of decentralizing software, distributing datasets, and downloading Linux ISOs.
Because BitTorrent always carried itself with a mission of integrity, they were unassailable. When Napster, KaZaA and other filesharing platforms were taken down, nobody could take a shot at BitTorrent.
Zcash has that same immaculate conception energy. Say what you will about them, the Zcash team are true believers and cypherpunks. When a project is driven by conviction, it survives where others would wither.
Kudos to them for making it through this. Viva Zcash.
(Long $ZEC)
Given this conviction, it *almost* seems like a disservice to "shill" ZEC to people who must be convinced of its value at this point, because if there is any justice in the world those are *precisely* the people who ought to pay more for it later.
if you are delusional, high-energy, and retarded, but bullish
you almost always end up being better off than those who are cynical, smart but bearish
many lessons in there
all you need is to try to make tomorrow better than today, nothing else
They turned Cypherpunk values into a weird cult with a Michael Saylor high priest
They are anti self custody, anti privacy, pro Wall Street, pro govt control
They are threatened by our values - that they wear like a skin
If you’re missing the $ZEC play, here’s the move:
We’re offloading our BTC to the institutions and latecomers — the boomers and bankers.
Then we’re sending it right back up, this time riding the “ZEC is the real upgrade to BTC” wave.
they made private money more illegal than gambling on virtual scams and we didnt stop them
it's time to change this
price leads attention but attention drives change
builders, add privacy to your systems
EDWARD SNOWDEN JUST GAVE AN EXISTENTIAL WARNING TO ALL AMERICANS 🚨
“If you stick out, you will become non-normative, an anomaly.”
Snowden warns that within 5-10 years, big data will track every aspect of our lives on the blockchain in order to create predictive behavioral models.
These models will control whether or not you are given a loan, whether or not you will be hired for a new job, and how you participate in the marketplace. 🤯
This 2-minute clip of Snowden at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville is mandatory listening. 👇
Crypto is…
Desperate gamblers chasing their first bag.
Investors funding the buildout of the global casino.
Bankers hypnotizing the masses to collect their vig.
…all meaningless and ephemeral without the cypherpunks, who defend the dream of encrypted and unstoppable cash.
ZEC has been PoW mined, live, and distributed for *NINE* years, with every single holder in immense pain
there is literally no coin better distributed
(you are objectively stupid if you think this has "cabal" characteristics, I'm just very loud)
combine this with the fact it *actually* gives you encryption and sovereignty
combine it with the fact that there's a renaissance of new core talent working on integrations and improvements
combine it with the fact that crypto *must* have privacy as the world gets more and more draconian
combine it with the fact that it's less than ADA, LTC and many other useless coins
combine it with the fact that it has the same tokenomics as Bitcoin, but is just private
and then finish it off with the fact that one of the greatest cryptographers alive is shipping a 10,000x scale and perf improvement
this is the most obvious mispricing in crypto, and it's not close
what you're seeing here is the community using the power of crypto and public markets to breathe life back into the project
some may call this a "CTO" — I call it returning to the ideals of crypto
we're going to make privacy great again
becase we must