@ahboyash From my vantage point, it looks like capital is consolidating in funds with big institutional LPs (Paradigm, Haun, a16z crypto, Electric, Variant, a couple of others) & smaller funds with good performance
Zcash ( and Aleo, Aztec, payy, etc) should double down on formal verification. Anecdotally, advances in coding agents make it straightforward if you have the expertise to write theorems/specs. But the flip side is, advances in AI mean this won't be the last zk bug.
otoh once tachyon ships the risk of a soundness bug in the shielded pool will likely be close to 0 (much simpler circuit language, with formally proven circuits, ai-powered auditing/testing/fuzzing)
so if we can make it in one piece until then, i think it then becomes more reasonable to make the argument that zec > btc
this is also why i expect a successful tachyon upgrade to be a significant price catalyst
a soundness bug is a greater existential risk to private chains than transparent chains because you can't necessarily fix it on a private chain immediately after it is exploited
in fact you might not know about it for an indefinite amount of time
and when you do find it and fix it you may have no way of knowing for sure whether or not it has already been exploited
this is one sense in which btc and zec are complementary (different failure modes)
@robustus i hold both and totally agree with the complimentary framing. just frustrated that Bitcoin can't upgrade and it might need to & zcash can upgrade but almost too easily. kinda feels like im getting the worst of both worlds right now
a soundness bug is a greater existential risk to private chains than transparent chains because you can't necessarily fix it on a private chain immediately after it is exploited
in fact you might not know about it for an indefinite amount of time
and when you do find it and fix it you may have no way of knowing for sure whether or not it has already been exploited
this is one sense in which btc and zec are complementary (different failure modes)