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Privacy has been on "a sort of decrease across society for the past 20 years" and AI is the next step down. Will McEvoy, CIO of Cypherpunk, tells Remy Blaire that's exactly where Zcash and private communications applications come in as the counter to that prevailing macro theme.

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Hemskets | Pillar | Midnight Ambassador7 days ago

@will__mcevoy @cypherpunk @RemyBlaireNews Zcash showed private transactions work years ago. Midnight builds on that idea but with privacy on demand, you choose what to share and what stays private, not all or nothing. @MidnightNtwrk

Maxime Desalle7 days ago

@will__mcevoy @cypherpunk @RemyBlaireNews So true

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Will McEvoy on why Cypherpunk went all-in on Zcash: "Cameron and Tyler have been following Zcash since 2016, when it launched. I joined up with them a little more than four years ago. We've been investing in AI, defense and longevity, and the through line is AI" "One of the core observations we made is that AI is extremely powerful from a surveillance perspective. We're in a structural decline in privacy, really since the advent of the internet. Phones, social media, comms apps, AI is just the latest step down" "Zcash was the first and largest production version of zero knowledge proofs, which Satoshi talks about early on, if something like ZK could be put into production, that would be a massive feature improvement to Bitcoin" "Privacy is a prerequisite to the Bill of Rights here in the United States. Privacy is core to being an American" "Bitcoin's great. It's what got me into the space. It's a massive technological revolution. But it's not private. That's why we launched Cypherpunk"

Will McEvoy on why Cypherpunk went all-in on Zcash: "Cameron and Tyler have been following Zcash since 2016, when it launched. I joined up with them a little more than four years ago. We've been investing in AI, defense and longevity, and the through line is AI" "One of the core observations we made is that AI is extremely powerful from a surveillance perspective. We're in a structural decline in privacy, really since the advent of the internet. Phones, social media, comms apps, AI is just the latest step down" "Zcash was the first and largest production version of zero knowledge proofs, which Satoshi talks about early on, if something like ZK could be put into production, that would be a massive feature improvement to Bitcoin" "Privacy is a prerequisite to the Bill of Rights here in the United States. Privacy is core to being an American" "Bitcoin's great. It's what got me into the space. It's a massive technological revolution. But it's not private. That's why we launched Cypherpunk"

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49,110 views • 7 days ago

Zcash is one of the few crypto assets with a clear lane and little direct competition Mert’s thesis on Zcash comes down to scarcity of competition. “It’s a tiny asset, and it’s a PvE.” “Everybody needs privacy.” “It probably is the closest thing to the cypherpunk ideal of crypto from the early days still out there today.” “Who’s trying to be private money exactly?” Crypto has become crowded with trading apps, launchpads, perps and other financial products. Privacy is a different category entirely. Zcash has a clear use case: private money. And the network effect matters. As the anonymity set grows, competing against it becomes harder because a new privacy network isn’t simply competing on technology. It also has to build the same level of liquidity, users and anonymity from scratch. That gives Zcash a potentially powerful moat. Everyone is fighting to become the next trading platform. Zcash is fighting for something much harder to replace: private money. w/ mert

Zcash is one of the few crypto assets with a clear lane and little direct competition Mert’s thesis on Zcash comes down to scarcity of competition. “It’s a tiny asset, and it’s a PvE.” “Everybody needs privacy.” “It probably is the closest thing to the cypherpunk ideal of crypto from the early days still out there today.” “Who’s trying to be private money exactly?” Crypto has become crowded with trading apps, launchpads, perps and other financial products. Privacy is a different category entirely. Zcash has a clear use case: private money. And the network effect matters. As the anonymity set grows, competing against it becomes harder because a new privacy network isn’t simply competing on technology. It also has to build the same level of liquidity, users and anonymity from scratch. That gives Zcash a potentially powerful moat. Everyone is fighting to become the next trading platform. Zcash is fighting for something much harder to replace: private money. w/ mert

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.Cameron Winklevoss: "As we enter the dawn of AI, privacy is ever more important. The people who are in Zcash are also OG Bitcoiners and cypherpunks as far back as the 90s, zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ being one of the founders of Zcash. He is an OG cypherpunk."

.Cameron Winklevoss: "As we enter the dawn of AI, privacy is ever more important. The people who are in Zcash are also OG Bitcoiners and cypherpunks as far back as the 90s, zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ being one of the founders of Zcash. He is an OG cypherpunk."

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CIO of publicly traded Cypherpunk believes zcash:native could be valued as high as 15% of Bitcoin "ZCash takes the best features of Bitcoin; the features that make what it is today, and adds privacy" "It takes 21 million hard cap. It takes proof of work mining and similar emission schedule" It is the "private and encrypted version of Bitcoin."

CIO of publicly traded Cypherpunk believes zcash:native could be valued as high as 15% of Bitcoin "ZCash takes the best features of Bitcoin; the features that make what it is today, and adds privacy" "It takes 21 million hard cap. It takes proof of work mining and similar emission schedule" It is the "private and encrypted version of Bitcoin."

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"We may be in a moment in time where we have the least amount of privacy... maybe ever... In that environment, you can think about privacy as a very scarce asset... When supply is decreasing, it's very likely that the price should be a lot higher." -- Will McEvoy

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Tushar Jain (Multicoin Capital) explained why zcash:native stands out as one of the strongest opportunities heading into 2026. He believes the demand for financial privacy will only grow as more activity moves on-chain, and sees Zcash as one of the few projects truly built for that purpose. Zcash is one of the few projects built specifically for that offering real private transactions while staying true to crypto’s original cypherpunk vision. This is also exactly why Multicoin has built a meaningful position in zcash:native. Strong conviction from a top fund. Definitely worth watching. Full episode👇

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25,905 views • 1 month ago

So, why did the Winklevoss twins launch cypherpunk - the first Zcash Treasury Company? Why are they bullish on Zcash 🛡️? Can Bitcoin and Zcash coexist? I caught up with Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss last week for Cointelegraph - here's everything they said about Zcash 👇 "We're huge fans of Bitcoin. We're hodlers, of course, and also huge fans of Zcash, which we view as encrypted Bitcoin." "Bitcoin is where you store your value and Zcash is where you transact or spend your value. And so we launched a DAT, a treasury company for Zcash, but it's really dedicated to privacy and self-sovereignty to help mainstream these ideas. The catalyst for Bitcoin was the financial crisis of 2008. And the catalyst for privacy is the dawn of the age of AI." You can find the full interview on Cointelegraph YT channel below 👇

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1,066,950 views • 11 months ago

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