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StarkWare is one of the most overlooked crypto projects combining privacy, quantum resistance and programmability “Something that's kind of under discussed actually right now is StarkWare” “One of the co-founders of StarkWare is also one of the co-founders of Zcash” “They're like one of the most technically sound teams...

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@blknoiz06 Starknet’s core dapp is @EkuboProtocol

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ft: @blknoiz06, @Banks, @MarketBubble cc: @StarkWareLtd

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hi kaiz, thanks for the shoutout - was just watchin anzems video with banks talking about starkware. thanks for the shout out chad. welcome to the bunker

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ty bro! 🎯

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LFG soon into $STRK

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privacy keeps getting framed as an L2 + zk trade,. the boring gap is still on L1: getting paid without publishing your whole history

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The convergence of privacy, post-quantum research, and programmable L2s is genuinely compelling; the key question is whether that technical edge translates into sustained adoption.

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.mert says Bitcoin's earliest figures wanted privacy from the start “People don't know this: Satoshi, in the first Bitcoin post, directly linked zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ, one of the co-founders of Zcash” “Hal Finney was also a supporter of Zcash. He knew Zooko, he followed the project, and he tweeted things like, ‘Looking to add anonymity to Bitcoin’” “There's a forum post from way back in the day about adding privacy to Bitcoin using ZK — but ZK was very early, not proven at all. And Satoshi himself says something like, ‘This would make for a much more effective and efficient implementation of Bitcoin. I'm just not sure how to get around the double-spending problem’” “Most of the reason blockchains today are transparent is that they couldn't get around the double spend problem without knowing how much everybody has at all times” “Technology evolves to fix such gaps. And now we do have the tech”

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33,968 views • 2 months ago

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19,267 views • 7 months ago

"I REMAIN BULLISH ON $ETH" - Galaxy Digital VP head of research. He covered Solana for years and was openly skeptical of Ethereum. Now he's flipped. Here's why: He says today looks exactly like Solana in 2022-2023, everyone got disillusioned, stopped paying attention, and missed the bottom of the narrative. The turnaround he's watching: Ethereum Foundation shrinking its own role "subtraction theory" to protect what actually matters: credible neutrality ETH Labs and ETH Institutional launching to push adoption Etherealize with "a lot of irons in the fire" on the institutional side Glamsterdam upgrade shipping Q3 On the "death of L2s"? "Very overstated." Robinhood just launched its L2 on the Arbitrum stack. Institutions want their own controllable ecosystems that settle to . The roadmap is aligned with where blockchain tech is actually going: privacy, ZK scaling of the L1, quantum resistance. His take: not enough people are paying attention to what's happening on the ground. The narrative can shift really quickly. $ETH $GLXY $SOL
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"I REMAIN BULLISH ON $ETH" - Galaxy Digital VP head of research. He covered Solana for years and was openly skeptical of Ethereum. Now he's flipped. Here's why: He says today looks exactly like Solana in 2022-2023, everyone got disillusioned, stopped paying attention, and missed the bottom of the narrative. The turnaround he's watching: Ethereum Foundation shrinking its own role "subtraction theory" to protect what actually matters: credible neutrality ETH Labs and ETH Institutional launching to push adoption Etherealize with "a lot of irons in the fire" on the institutional side Glamsterdam upgrade shipping Q3 On the "death of L2s"? "Very overstated." Robinhood just launched its L2 on the Arbitrum stack. Institutions want their own controllable ecosystems that settle to . The roadmap is aligned with where blockchain tech is actually going: privacy, ZK scaling of the L1, quantum resistance. His take: not enough people are paying attention to what's happening on the ground. The narrative can shift really quickly. $ETH $GLXY $SOL

SamAlτcoin.eth 🌞

40,222 views • 3 months ago

We asked Bobbin's Threadbare of Miden about the zk teams he's most impressed with. "There are quite a few ZK teams I respect a lot" "The StarkWare 🥷 team is probably one of the best in pushing to the next level of performance in terms of proving systems." "The Polygon team is right up there with Plonky3 that's now being used across the industry" "And RISC Zero guys have a very strong cryptography team that's changing a lot." "The Succinct team is also extremely strong with their new proving system powering the next generation." "Those are the strongest teams, but I think there is probably very, very close runner-ups."
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We asked Bobbin's Threadbare of Miden about the zk teams he's most impressed with. "There are quite a few ZK teams I respect a lot" "The StarkWare 🥷 team is probably one of the best in pushing to the next level of performance in terms of proving systems." "The Polygon team is right up there with Plonky3 that's now being used across the industry" "And RISC Zero guys have a very strong cryptography team that's changing a lot." "The Succinct team is also extremely strong with their new proving system powering the next generation." "Those are the strongest teams, but I think there is probably very, very close runner-ups."

The Rollup

14,057 views • 1 year ago

VanEck CEO Jan van Eck on CNBC: “There’s something else going on within the Bitcoin community that non-crypto people need to know about. And that is: ultimately, VanEck has been around before Bitcoin. We will walk away from Bitcoin if we think the thesis is fundamentally broken. We don’t right now, but you always have to look at the underlying technology and the crypto. What the Bitcoin community has been asking itself is: Is there enough encryption in Bitcoin, because quantum computing is coming? And secondly: Is there enough privacy in Bitcoin? And so a lot of Bitcoin OGs or maxis have been looking at Zcash. Zcash is a token. It’s sort of related to Bitcoin with a lot more privacy. The kind of garbage that we got about Bitcoin four years ago was: ‘It’s used for all bad illicit behavior.’ But now everyone kind of realizes that when you move money around on the Bitcoin blockchain, you can see it. You can see it move from one wallet to another. And a lot of people are looking for more privacy.”
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VanEck CEO Jan van Eck on CNBC: “There’s something else going on within the Bitcoin community that non-crypto people need to know about. And that is: ultimately, VanEck has been around before Bitcoin. We will walk away from Bitcoin if we think the thesis is fundamentally broken. We don’t right now, but you always have to look at the underlying technology and the crypto. What the Bitcoin community has been asking itself is: Is there enough encryption in Bitcoin, because quantum computing is coming? And secondly: Is there enough privacy in Bitcoin? And so a lot of Bitcoin OGs or maxis have been looking at Zcash. Zcash is a token. It’s sort of related to Bitcoin with a lot more privacy. The kind of garbage that we got about Bitcoin four years ago was: ‘It’s used for all bad illicit behavior.’ But now everyone kind of realizes that when you move money around on the Bitcoin blockchain, you can see it. You can see it move from one wallet to another. And a lot of people are looking for more privacy.”

Arjun Khemani

595,695 views • 10 months ago

afraid I’m gonna get roasted for this, but I did buy some Zcash Curious about the potential of privacy coins and think it’s a solution to a very powerful problem, spending can be too transparent on blockchains I view Zcash as complimentary to Bitcoin and Ethereum. The crypto ecosystem is evolving and growing up my thesis is Zcash /privacy coins could easy be 10-20% of Bitcoin’s market cap, maybe the shadow crypto network will be just as big as Bitcoin … so getting a piece of Zcash at 0.5% of Bitcoin network value made sense Why Zcash over other privacy coins? All gossip, but I’ve heard they have an insanely good technical team. Pioneers of this tech. Also there’s a self fulfilling prophecy network effect ✨ as Zcash takes off its privacy pool gets bigger and bigger making it more useful and more anonymized, as it’s easier to move big sums of value and be hidden. Therefore increasing its intrinsic value Buying something running so fast has got me feeling like an idiot forsure. But can’t get over the idea that privacy coins are going to be a big part of crypto going forward Don’t get me wrong, this is almost bullish for Bitcoin. Zcash needed Bitcoin to establish crypto. Now as the ecosystem matures new coins will pop up, not disrupting the incumbents but complimenting them What do you think ? #ZEC What are your thoughts on privacy coins??
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afraid I’m gonna get roasted for this, but I did buy some Zcash Curious about the potential of privacy coins and think it’s a solution to a very powerful problem, spending can be too transparent on blockchains I view Zcash as complimentary to Bitcoin and Ethereum. The crypto ecosystem is evolving and growing up my thesis is Zcash /privacy coins could easy be 10-20% of Bitcoin’s market cap, maybe the shadow crypto network will be just as big as Bitcoin … so getting a piece of Zcash at 0.5% of Bitcoin network value made sense Why Zcash over other privacy coins? All gossip, but I’ve heard they have an insanely good technical team. Pioneers of this tech. Also there’s a self fulfilling prophecy network effect ✨ as Zcash takes off its privacy pool gets bigger and bigger making it more useful and more anonymized, as it’s easier to move big sums of value and be hidden. Therefore increasing its intrinsic value Buying something running so fast has got me feeling like an idiot forsure. But can’t get over the idea that privacy coins are going to be a big part of crypto going forward Don’t get me wrong, this is almost bullish for Bitcoin. Zcash needed Bitcoin to establish crypto. Now as the ecosystem matures new coins will pop up, not disrupting the incumbents but complimenting them What do you think ? #ZEC What are your thoughts on privacy coins??

Gali

18,644 views • 10 months ago