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Balaji explains why Zcash is finally having its moment “The technology did work 10 years ago but it took a while for the proofs to work on mobile, for example. The cryptography had to evolve” “The usability of it had to evolve. Everything had to work on mobile. Apple had to make that easier for things to work. A lot of crypto regulations had to move forward” “There were a lot of things that were both technical and social and geopolitical even and now I think it's hit its moment” “Most crypto projects, if they fail, they fail because they go too capitalist. They market it too hard and it just does the Burj Khalifa formation” “Zcash for a long time had the opposite problem of being too PhD which I see often in biotech” “Zcash almost wasn't commercial enough in some ways. It was so pure but that's good because it actually works” “People were in it for a long time for more than money and so now it is very good money”
genzcash40,232 次观看 • 10 天前
Tyler Winklevoss explains why he believes privacy is a fundamental human right “I see privacy as the boundary where government stops and your freedom and self-sovereignty begins. So it's this really important boundary” “We have this enshrined with the Fourth Amendment, to some extent the Second Amendment and encryption is a peaceful, nonviolent Second Amendment that protects you and your space and your privacy” “Government tends to go just one way like more surveillance, more trampling on your rights, more coercion, more violence” “This is a mathematical way to stop that and to stifle that and really uphold the American values and ethos in our Constitution” “Privacy is a human right”
genzcash27,186 次观看 • 9 天前
Naval Ravikant on what he thinks happens if the United States collapses “If the US were to collapse, first of all, I think freedom bleeds out from the rest of the world” “You can already see what's happening in Australia and the UK with the speech laws, the censorship and the weird arrests” “If the US degenerates and falls, it doesn't fail like Europe did” “It fails like a Latin American country fails because it is bordered by Latin America. So you're looking at much more cartel, drugs, crime, violence and those kinds of institutions”
genzcash181,189 次观看 • 3 个月前
Balaji predicts Zcash will become the encrypted cash of individuals worldwide while Bitcoin serves as the reserve asset of Western institutions “Look, I love Bitcoin and I think Bitcoin is going to continue to have a role because its transparency means governments can prove they hold Bitcoin” “They can't prove whether they hold gold, physical gold. You know, a video of Fort Knox would not be trusted but you can prove whether you hold Bitcoin” “Bitcoin continues as a transparent asset, the reserve asset of Western institutions. But Zcash I think becomes the encrypted cash of individuals around the world”
genzcash28,765 次观看 • 16 天前
.Cameron Winklevoss: “We filed today for a Zcash ETF. 13 years ago we did the same thing for a Bitcoin ETF. The price of Bitcoin in 2013 was $100. 13 years later, this is the sequel, and we filed for the Winklevoss Zcash ETF. And so we’re excited about that, and just to give people access to this asset class who may want to buy Zcash in a brokerage account because they can’t hold Zcash, the asset, and they want exposure to privacy, which is an asset, and it’s a declining asset. It’s a very precious asset.”
genzcash31,600 次观看 • 19 天前
Zcash cofounder and executive director of Tachyon, Sean Bowe on scaling Zcash: “We’re taking the cryptography that’s at the core of the private payments that take place in our protocol, and we’re removing all the cryptographic bottlenecks that are on the inside. So, if I had to really describe what we’re doing briefly, is that we’re basically taking SNARKs, which are these things that we have inside of Zcash, and we’re adding something called a recursive proof to them. And these are really cool. Right now in Zcash, when you send private payments, invariably you’re going to have multiple different things happening inside your transaction. So the proofs that you put inside them are quite large. They’re like seven kilobytes on average for a standard payment. And sometimes they’re a little bit larger because of random reasons that aren’t that interesting. Inside of our thing, because we use recursive proofs, these proofs prove that other proofs have validated properly. And that’s sort of the essence of how they work. So it’s like proofs all the way down. The proofs can prove other instances of themselves, and so on and so on. And you can build all sorts of crazy applications with this. And one simple example is just this. So in Tachyon, when you create a transaction, it actually doesn’t have a marginal increase in size of the transaction. So it actually, in our specific design, it’s not any larger than what we do in Orchard already. So we can do the same principle with multiple transactions in a block. So a miner will take all the transactions and take all the proofs out, or these things called stamps, and combine them together into one proof, an aggregate that’s about 17 kilobytes in size. And we can shove as many transactions as possible into the block. Actually, with the current block size, or the block size that we’re going to have in less than a month, you should be able to at least do about 150 TPS with that. But the real goal is just to enable the sort of asymptotic improvement here.”
genzcash19,660 次观看 • 19 天前
Zcash engineer Evan Forbes explains how they're working to overcome a fundamental limitation of proof of work to enable much faster blocks and higher throughput “One of the fundamental problems with proof of work comes from its superpower. Proof of work is permissionless. It's censorship resistant and that means that anyone can produce a block” “As you produce a block, it can happen that someone else produced a block at the same exact time and this is problematic because now you lose money effectively” “It's basically the fundamental problem of two people producing blocks at the same time. This is the bound on making things lower” “There's different approaches. You have this DAG approach where we simply let all blocks contribute to the chain or most blocks” “There's a separate approach that we're working on now which is similar to autobond, which is another thing from proof of stake that we're sort of adapting for proof of work” “Both of these things allow us to make the blocks much, much, much faster and much, much higher throughput”
genzcash14,019 次观看 • 14 天前
Mert explains why privacy isn't secrecy “Privacy is not secrecy. It is the user having the option and the freedom to disclose their information. If it's mandatory, then it's surveillance. If it's optional, if it's up to the user, then it's freedom” “One good analogy is, you take all sorts of pictures on your phone. Some of those are private. You don't publish all of them on social media but you can publish whatever you want” “You can send messages on Twitter or Facebook or you might send private messages on Signal. Fundamentally, you have to have the choice” “When I pay for a coffee, I don't want my barista knowing I just bought a hair transplant treatment with the same coin" "Privacy is fundamentally about having the option. As long as you have the option, you're in control, it’s up to you what you do with it”
genzcash14,336 次观看 • 3 个月前
Tushar Jain explains why Zcash represents crypto's original vision “I think a lot of people in the industry lost their direction a little bit. You have to look back at the principles the industry was founded on and it was founded on self-sovereignty” “Now the big thing the industry is saying is, ‘Please regulate us. Please come and issue centralized assets on our chains’” “I think Bitcoin feels pretty captured at this point. It's BlackRock, it's MicroStrategy. It's institutionally captured” “To me, Zcash is the ideals on which the industry was founded”
genzcash12,956 次观看 • 3 个月前
. explains his 1000x privacy thesis: “The last 12-13 years, we were working on getting Bitcoin to be legitimized as well as programmability (Ethereum) and scale in blockchains (Solana) to work. Now that those work, there is one thing left that is asymmetric in upside and impact for the entire industry: privacy.”
genzcash25,844 次观看 • 11 个月前