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@TheVladCostea Avatar @TheVladCostea VLAD HOSTS THE BEST PODCAST IN BITCOIN

There's a shift in the Bitcoin community, with some maximalists now embracing "shitcoins" and exploring alternative cryptocurrencies like Zcash, which offers enhanced privacy features. Zcash, often referred to as "encrypted Bitcoin," has gained attention for its zero-knowledge cryptography and potential to improve Bitcoin's scalability and privacy. This development suggests a evolution in the Bitcoin ecosystem, with some proponents open to exploring new technologies and features beyond the original Bitcoin protocol.

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Social category influence cryptocurrencies #981 finance XXXX% gaming XXXX% social networks XXX% countries XXX% technology brands XXXX% automotive brands XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% stocks XXXX% celebrities XXXX%

Social topic influence bitcoin #396, ethereum #723, zk #616, coins #306, money 0.93%, $1k #79, xmr #41, bitcoins #374, litecoin #412, transactions #111

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @w0wn3r0 @zooko @vitalikbuterin @vellegno @cameronruggles @aaronrday @btctkvr @xoskeleto @ebfull @xenumonero @myfanforce @rafael_xmr @zcash @annie1371 @beamprivacy @narodism @thedesertlynx @pfiifeflutscher @elibensasson @rafaelxmr

Top assets mentioned Bitcoin (BTC) Ethereum (ETH) Litecoin (LTC) Kaspa (KAS) StarkNet (STRK) Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Dogecoin (DOGE) Solana (SOL) PSYOP (PSYOP)

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Of the XX Twitter accounts that @halfin followed in his lifetime only a dozen of them are related to Bitcoin But he made sure to follow @ZerocoinProject a precursor to Zcash & Firo (Zcoin) In a parallel universe Hal is still alive nailing pull requests for the fungible ZK Bitcoin which enabled the Zerocash soft fork. But in our reality we have Zcash as a separate project from Bitcoin"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-09-21T20:12Z 22.9K followers, 10K engagements

"Hi @gainzy222 @0xMert_ @cobie I ran the moon math and $1k per ZEC is too low Has to be at least twice the 2016 all-time high of $3.2k New target: $6.4k like Nintendo XX lol Please update your memes & buckle up 25X from here will melt faces That would be $100b market cap"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T18:46Z 22.9K followers, 15.6K engagements

"I promised I would do the Zcash Pump dance once again on livestream when the price hits $XXX Wasnt expecting it to happen only a week later ðŸĪ·ðŸŧ♂ @ebfull did it too about X minutes into our interview So when will you do the dance I think Ill dance again when ZEC flips XMR"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T18:35Z 22.9K followers, 4825 engagements

"To everyone who bought Zcash: congratulations Now dont forget to withdraw the coins from exchanges send them to @zashi_app & shield everything Then ZODL in the shielded pool where you enjoy the best privacy in the world Without the shielding part youre not private. But with it you make Monero bros foam around the mouth"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T03:16Z 22.9K followers, 18.6K engagements

"Oh wow @rogerkver is finally free I wonder what he will do next 🙃"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-09T23:16Z 22.9K followers, 4067 engagements

"Shotcoins are the new bitcoin maximalistm"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T07:57Z 22.9K followers, 1610 engagements

"@vellegno Your ARRR couldn't exist without that XX% aand the people you disrespect"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T11:47Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@JJS36038159 Just add privacy to Bitcoin make it censorship resistant to the point you can't know what's being transacted. Your concerns are invalid Bitcoin will work just fine Raspberry Pis will still be able to validate and your X TB hard drive won't fill in the next decade"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-06T08:40Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Just received my first paycheck from the NSA ðŸ˜ą and you couldnt know anything about it because its encrypted with ZK cryptography But now you know the Monero bros were right. At least Im an agent not an informant 🙃"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-06T15:11Z 22.9K followers, 5850 engagements

"Good night y'all don't forget to tip your waitress shield your zcash and fantasize about what could have been if bitcoin activated zerocoin and all the exciting stuff we see today on zcash was being used on the biggest internet money network of them all"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T21:27Z 22.9K followers, 1832 engagements

"I remember 7-8 years ago when @Selkis_2028 was tweeting about buying Zcash I thought to myself this guy is such an idiot we have the Lightning network now. Whats the point of Zcash In hindsight he was ahead of his time and Im the two bit idiot ðŸĨē"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-11T04:05Z 22.9K followers, 7096 engagements

"Running Bitcoin Core v30"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T17:44Z 22.9K followers, 2715 engagements

"@GregTonoski Because the miners would never pick the camp that holds in cold storage and brags about never spending any bitcoin"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T04:45Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@CameronRuggles @Truthcoin @xenumonero If you dont see any value in investing in ZK research and development just stay away"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T16:37Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"$300 per ZEC tonight or we're all gay"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-11T22:48Z 22.9K followers, 23.3K engagements

"22333 followers Probably a sign to buy more Zcash before the next god candle hits ðŸ•Ŋ"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-06T23:14Z 22.9K followers, 4638 engagements

"Bitcoin Kaspa & Proof of Work with @hashdag (Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S16 E41)"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-08-21T17:22Z 22.9K followers, 110.2K engagements

"@Beachii2 Yeah and Bitcoin should grow and evolve to incorporate new breakthroughs in computer science and cryptography too. Not gonna happen while these guys are so concerned about legal consequences"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T19:53Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"@ambimorph @ToxicHodler @xenumonero Are you assuming hes debating in good faith I met the guy in real life and explained to him why I like Zcash. But in here he keeps mentioning that Im getting paid"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T03:44Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"The price of ZEC became boring So heres another round of the zebra pump dance Featuring @InfoLiberland @ebfull Issuing a challenge to @gainzy222 @0xMert_ @cobie I WANNA SEE YOUR DANCE"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T02:03Z 22.9K followers, 6986 engagements

"@familiarcow @rafael_xmr @0xTurbamulta @BooneW Wtf is a KOL"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T19:32Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"Time stamps: 00:01:19 - Sean Bowe's Work on Zcash and Hidden Inflation Bug Fix 00:01:36 - Introduction to Halo and Halo 2: Eliminating Trusted Setup 00:01:51 - Overview of Project Tachyon for Scaling ZK-SNARKs 00:02:43 - Zcash Price Pump and Dance Celebration 00:04:48 - Using Zcash for Encrypted Messages via Zashi Wallet 00:05:42 - Comparing Zcash Messaging to Signal 00:07:17 - Sean Bowe's Early Involvement in Zcash and Bitcoin 00:10:34 - Sean Bowe's Age and Start in Cryptography at XX 00:11:13 - Discovering Bitcoin in 2011 and Privacy Needs 00:13:42 - Contributing to BIP XX with Slush and"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T10:30Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Enjoy dealing with guys like him"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T20:08Z 22.9K followers, 2677 engagements

"It brings another XX million coins to the table. Just like the XXX Pokmon became 1000+ There are multiple religions that worship the same one God. Only X planets in the solar system after better images of Pluto emerged. There are extra slots to be added to the XXX elements. You get the idea"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T11:29Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"If the most zealous of saylorite there is no second best toxic bitcoin maximalists actually took the time to study bitcoin history instead of getting educated by moronic high priests they would be investing in at least X altcoins that advance bitcoin research"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T04:44Z 22.9K followers, 3635 engagements

"As predicted: while Bitcoin is going through a civil war Zcash is gaining momentum It was the same in 2017 except that the big winner was Ethereum which also had to deal with FUD copycat ETH killers puritan alternatives which claim ETH is scammy. But ETH became the de facto number X coin in 2017. Now its Zcashs time to shine"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T20:02Z 22.9K followers, 7883 engagements

"In 2017 during the block size wars it was Ethereum that really won. Now during the Bitcoin Core v30 vs Knots war the winners will be Zcash Monero & every other privacy coin with a vocal community + decent exchange availability. Privacy is the next big thing buckle up"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-04T07:46Z 22.9K followers, 4428 engagements

"@rafael_xmr @AlpenLabs @Starknet @EliBenSasson It's like comparing a Lexus LS500 V8 engine with a race car V8 engine. One exists for smoothness the other one was built for speed. You can't put the two of them in a race just because they are both V8s. The same tech can be optimized for different purposes"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T13:54Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"@rafael_xmr @AlpenLabs @Starknet @EliBenSasson You have ZK for data compression/scaling and ZK for privacy Not everything ZK is optimized for privacy Do you even listen to my pod"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T13:48Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"If you believe Zcash is going to $1k or more Does it really matter if you buy at $XXX or $175"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-04T23:18Z 22.9K followers, 14.5K engagements

"@CameronRuggles @Truthcoin @xenumonero No. You still need an experimental layer bitcoiners wont take all the risks"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T16:09Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"@BitluxKyle Met one of the guys in Mexico City last year. I still have one of their thermoses with the Pirate Chain logo. He was nice and helpful"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T19:53Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Looks like I will be interviewing Yonatan I he mastermind behind Kaspa/Phantom-GhostDAG Possibly the most interesting altcoin weve seen in the last couple of years ETA: 3-4 weeks What should I ask him"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-07-29T11:49Z 22.9K followers, 57.2K engagements

"Zero knowledge cryptography is the future of: Computer security Internet identity Bitcoin scaling & privacy (Citrea Zside) Ethereum scaling & privacy (ZK rollups Tornado Cash) All of this couldnt exist without Zcash and is still being refined by Zcash"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-03T08:10Z 22.9K followers, 6318 engagements

"Yes Romero is cool and popular But Im more of a Carmack kind of fanboy Sure Romero has that badass rockstar anarchist aura that makes the people think his code is great for privacy. However I will always choose the savants who build state of the art stuff over the cool kids. Some say that Romero is better because street hustlers use his code in various shady operations But would you rather trust street hustlers or academic researchers who can actually read the code"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T04:32Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Turned my girlfriend into a maxi"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T04:43Z 22.9K followers, 2015 engagements

"This is why I'm much more interested in Zcash. Bitcoin has turned into a shitshow of identity politics & pointless virtue signaling"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T19:40Z 22.9K followers, 3188 engagements

"How many of these am I gonna drink until I see $XXX on the screen"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T00:01Z 22.8K followers, 3646 engagements

"If you're into anything that's revolutionary or groundbreaking you're gonna have a hard time in Bitcoin. Even the most basic shit faces strong opposition. In some ways it's good. But if you want to create new stuff you won't be able to please the tribe because you can't build where you want. That's when you're struck with the moral dilemma of: should I can it just to keep my purity card or should I go forward with it but never get invited again to steak dinners and pleb parties"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T17:24Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Toxic maxi friend who used to work for a Bitcoin privacy company asked me why he should buy Zcash At this point I feel like Im taking with a Skyrim NPC 😆"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T15:54Z 22.9K followers, 4026 engagements

"@MichaelKWright2 @adam3us Its much simpler than you think: he most likely feels guilty for 2017 and wanted to avoid another chain split. Also hes the CEO of the company that produced Bitcoins last X upgrades. So he has to defend his teams contributions"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T07:36Z 22.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@TanukiBTC Contracts were a really big conversation in Bitcoin. Search for all the Bitcoin XXX protocols and debates"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T16:08Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"What do you think about the antisemitism that Luke Parker noticed in real life last year and pushed him to leave the project It certainly didnt tone down. Because honestly you guys fund these loons useful they bull post about XMR all day bring more of their recruits keep the price high"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T11:15Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Time stamps: Time stamps: 00:01:31 - Introducing Christopher Smith (Yuvi Lightman) known on Soundcloud Music as Ganesha1024 00:02:22 - Quantis: Zero-Knowledge Quantum-Resistant Blockchain 00:02:39 - Christopher's Background Early Bitcoin Involvement 00:03:41 - Current Views on Bitcoin All-Time High at $125K 00:04:19 - Discovering Bitcoin in 2012 Contributions to BitcoinJ 00:04:36 - Founding BitMesh: Micropayments via Payment Channels 00:04:42 - Mike Hearn and Payment Channels 00:05:17 - Bitcoin Whitepaper Praise Satoshi's Genius 00:05:55 - Essence of Money Overcomplication Critique 00:06:49 -"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-06T09:58Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@ofrnxmr Romero gonna Romero"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T13:49Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"@SelfHostingArt @jakexmr We might have our disagreements but I like his positive energy"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T17:36Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Last year when I interviewed @peterktodd Ive asked him to name X cryptocurrencies that are not scams Surprisingly in spite of his history with Zcash as one of the biggest early critics he named Zcash Which is why I went home and bought more ZEC at $XX 😍"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T01:31Z 22.9K followers, 10.1K engagements

"While you're at it cancel everything unnecessary from Netflix to Xbox Gamepass. Buy your content in a way that grants you complete ownership rights (as in buy physical) and/or rediscover the power of BitTorrent. Paying for MS Office XXX Replace that shit with Libre Office. Don't buy anything that you can't own"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-07T06:03Z 22.9K followers, 1333 engagements

"@BawdyAnarchist_ @DontTraceMeBruh Oh yeah its definitely for profit because I bought a shitload of XMR during my interview on Monero Talk"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T16:47Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"@Litecoin__Lord No but my grandma was Greek and these guys claim that I have a jewish nose"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T07:01Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@SatoshiDeniz Bitcoin is boring fighting about nonsense and LARPing about edge cases where the worst kind of people suddenly decide they should encode their pics. Zcash is what Bitcoin could have been if we took privacy seriously. Still XXX% compatible with Bitcoin with a soft fork"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T03:38Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@Bullcrapwork lol"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T07:38Z 22.8K followers, XX engagements

"Zcash is encrypted bitcoin Anyone who disagrees with this statement doesnt know much about Zcash and most definitely doesnt understand how Bitcoin works"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T16:44Z 22.9K followers, 6479 engagements

"Satoshi Nakamoto was a shitcoiner"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-07-12T18:18Z 22.9K followers, 9248 engagements

"Zcash is $XXX So you better learn the dance and post your own videos $XXX is near Then we flip Monero And then we hit $1k Against all odds in spite of all the haters Encrypted bitcoin baby"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-08T22:21Z 22.9K followers, 25.3K engagements

"Shitcoining is the new Bitcoin maximalism My advice to all Bitcoin maxi brothers: 1/ find an altcoin thats building something interesting that Bitcoin cant do (privacy contracts big scaling) 2/ buy a small bag 3/ get involved with the community 4/ learn how the tech works expand your understanding of a different system 5/ refocus your attention on Bitcoin in order to figure out whats missing"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-06T20:14Z 22.9K followers, 14.7K engagements

"@coryklippsten Hal Finney would agree with him. Satoshi too"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T10:47Z 22.9K followers, 1147 engagements

"To Mossad the NSA the cult of Saturn & Electric Coin Foundation How come you never paid me but Monero bros say you did Seriously wtf Fix it now or dont. Nobody will ever know if any transaction gets sent to this address anyway ðŸĪ·ðŸŧ♂ To everyone else send haikus with X ZEC in them. u1x75ldyw52z2msvhqhlvqwq4vrp5k598z4le3k3c4cvpnqunvdal3dz638m0apdgjdc97n4dx6w4q74cx980k2jr4wuwh0pcsd7m4vnqhq7q9ggvdl6t2pkhq32k0a3e0ms40yz4t220pwtjpa5fqharz90lstr49n8fu2k5yksjwxhp2"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-05T22:20Z 22.9K followers, 7574 engagements

"@gregory_nico I don't think so it's basically Bitcoin with the Zerocash upgrade which Bitcoin can use whenever the community wakes up from the fever dream of NGU Saylorism But Pirate Chain did it: a fork with only shielded addresses"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-04T19:28Z 22.9K followers, 1148 engagements

"ZEC's hitting all-time highs for shielded coins ZEC's hitting all-time highs in market cap ZEC's showing strong resistance through these dumps outperforming even bitcoin over the last day & week I just bought more ZEC with the cash I got from selling that other coin"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T17:18Z 22.9K followers, 6747 engagements

"@vellegno @z2zcash Yet weren't practical until Zcash came along"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T12:20Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"Nicolas van Saberhagen author of CryptoNote & creator Bytecoin put a backdoor in the code which allows him to steal coins or create inflation even in community forks like Monero So you can never be certain about the supply hidden inflation can happen at any moment. Who cares that the code is open source and has been audited battle tested modified a lot since 2013 Van Saberhagen was a bad actor who premined a lot of coins for himself has a record for cheating the community and definitely will do the same to Monero through some esoteric ways which escaped the review of all genius devs. How does"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-04T13:29Z 22.9K followers, 3789 engagements

"@Kruwed @nopara73 CT doesnt scale requires a hard fork. Zerocash is better and more battle tested (CT has been on Liquid since 2018 Zerocash has been perfected by Zcash since 2016)"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T03:41Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"@Jaazzmiiin @peterktodd I dont remember"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T03:33Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"In chapter XX of the Bitcoin whitepaper Satoshi described privacy. Just days after Bitcoin launched Hal famously tweeted that he's looking into ways to improve Bitcoin's privacy. In 2010 Satoshi expressed interest in building a better version of Bitcoin with zk proofs. In 2013 Hal Finney followed the Zerocoin/Zerocash project @ZerocoinProject today's Zcash & Firo. XX years later Zcash offers a mature & battle-tested implementation of the Zerocash protocol. It's faster more scalable & no longer needs the trusted setup. Bitcoin could just soft fork it and get the same kind of privacy. But"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T16:56Z 22.9K followers, 10.1K engagements

"Something that I do when editing my podcasts is to add a noise filter plugin that removes the breathing sounds I cant stand hearing the sounds of breathing or chewing not even my own So when youre listening to the Bitcoin Takeover podcast breathes sound like pauses"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T04:02Z 22.9K followers, 1564 engagements

"The way I see it Bitcoin is the Linux kernel Zcash is Qubes OS Monero is Tails Litecoin is Debian Ethereum is Ubuntu Bitcoin Cash is Pure OS Zano is Whonix Decred is Fedora Kaspa is Arch Linux Firo is Parrot OS Dogecoin is Linux Mint Solana is POP OS Tron is Elementary OS"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-08T20:06Z 22.9K followers, 11.6K engagements

"The more Zcash drops in price the greater the upward acceleration when the downward pressure fizzles out. Remember - the ZK SNARKs moon math market is NOT the crypto market. It is a new paradigm. Old formulas cannot be applied and traditional math is impotent when peering into Zcash"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T18:30Z 22.9K followers, 9713 engagements

"Oh no Im in Mossad honeypot jail"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-09T12:32Z 22.8K followers, 2399 engagements

"Me when I read Bitcoin Talk threads from XX years ago and I realize Bitcoin was supposed to be like Zcash and Ethereum"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T13:20Z 22.9K followers, 5011 engagements

"@julian256"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T19:42Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@CameronRuggles Pirate Chain just like Ethereum Classic is merely following the development of the bigger coin. Money goes where the talent and development is. Bitcoin is sort of an exception to this rule people pay to see it not changing and compete in launching stuff without forking"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-04T20:05Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@rafael_xmr @AlpenLabs @Starknet @EliBenSasson These same devs are too afraid to mention anything about ZK privacy because of regulations and the necessity to keep investors happy"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T14:26Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"These guys wont respect the power of ZK SNARKs until the price chart melts their faces Im afraid $1k per ZEC wont cut it. Higher"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T10:33Z 22.9K followers, 5800 engagements

"There will only ever be XXX pokmons X true monotheistic religion X planets in the solar system XXX chemical elements in the periodic table XX million coins for the entire monetary system Further research is a shitcoin and must be stopped at all costs"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T09:45Z 22.9K followers, 2745 engagements

"I really like Pirate Chain a fork of Zcash with only shielded transactions and no dev tax In principle its beautiful but its biggest flaw is that it doesnt have the talent manpower & resources of Zcash Pirate Chain is reactionary not revolutionary And the value proposition of Zcash is that of pushing the limits of cryptography and privacy tech. Pirate chain will always be behind Zcash in terms of development"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T17:55Z 22.9K followers, 7073 engagements

"Read a metaphor somewhere that Monero is the poor kid who was abandoned and became successful in spite of all the struggles while Zcash is the rich kid who was raised by genius parents Basically Monero is Cristiano Ronaldo Zcash is Messi. Whats wrong with this story is that kids who grow up poor and grind their way to the top are never spiteful vengeful or focused on bringing others down. And thats what I mostly see in the Monero community: envy vitriol the permanent need to downplay the success of others. This is also part of the reason why Zcash is pumping harder these days: its focused on"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-04T23:59Z 22.9K followers, 14.7K engagements

"Holy fuck Zcash is at $XX and its almost back in the top XXX on CMC I told you so a year ago when it was like $XX. I told you that privacy was gonna be huge this cycle. Think its an isolated incident Monero is also inching $XXX (+96% since last year) Zano is $XX (+150% since last year). All X offer better privacy than Bitcoin and outperform it this year. Something tells me theres more upside to see so better buckle up and get ready to admit just how right I turned out to be"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-01T06:43Z 22.9K followers, 15.2K engagements

"Volatility is life. Volatility is cryptos heartbeat. Volatility is the ultimate proof that the markets are free. Volatility is a reminder that nothing lasts forever and everything can change. Embrace the volatility"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-11T00:05Z 22.8K followers, 1924 engagements

"Monero bros in disbelief After spending a week screaming about every piece of cash FUD Now they call it Ztrash and point out to charts claiming that this cant be organic and the crash is imminent Read the room encrypted bitcoin is a powerful idea that people love"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T01:52Z 22.9K followers, 7626 engagements

"Activate Zerocash on Bitcoin"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T17:43Z 22.9K followers, 6846 engagements

"Had a dream about OP_RETURN size in Bitcoin 😂 So I woke up and checked to see if the fighting is over now that Bitcoin Core v30 is out and nothing catastrophic happened My God these guys just wont let go. They daydream about their CSAM and extreme situations where people get arrested. Let it go already"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T01:21Z 22.9K followers, 1682 engagements

"@ToxicHodler @ambimorph @xenumonero Youre moving goalposts. If bitcoin OGs bought Romero in 2014 for XX bitcoins per XRM the price chart would look even worse. In PoW coins the supply is always low in the beginning so its easy to achieve high prices with high demand which Romero didnt have"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T08:22Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"@Je_mm_ie @Alan_Earn No I reinvented Bitcoin philosophy"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T07:32Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"Bitcoin without privacy is not Bitcoin"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T08:36Z 22.9K followers, 10.3K engagements

"Just sold all my XMR Will swap for ZEC & ZANO little by little over the next few days to avoid any obvious linking I will also remove Monero from my Freedom Gainzz index Why Because I don't want to enrich a bunch of antisemitic assholes who threaten me with physical violence "they will shave his head or break his legs" is where I draw the line If I wanted to engage in physical violence I would have joined a mafia organization not an internet community of nerds who fantasize about the future of money. It's better for me to just focus on the positive side with builders who have a little bit of"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T20:06Z 22.9K followers, 38.6K engagements

"Whats funny about the FUD coming from the Monero bros is that they avoid talking about the shielded transactions in Zcash. They cherry pick statistics about transparent addresses they apply their flawed hide in a crowd logic that doesnt work like that for Orchard pool. But the facts are: 1/ Monero hides you in a crowd Zcash leaves no trace other than a transaction happened 2/ It doesnt matter that youre the only one using the shielded pool at a certain time or if its only X other guys. You benefit from the accumulated privacy of all the other users who were ever there youre one in a few"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-05T18:39Z 22.9K followers, 5895 engagements

"In 2018 Bitcoin maximalism was truly punk rock All about sticking it to the man telling nation states and VCs that they cant invent a better Bitcoin We have this immaculately conceived money network and were gonna turn it into the default currency of the internet The cool features from altcoins Well take them and make them work with the XX million BTC. Your experiments cant hold value and theres nothing you can do about it The forks You can make 1000 of them and most of us will stick with the original chain with the largest amount of Proof of Work But somewhere along the line the movement got"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T10:09Z 22.9K followers, 10.7K engagements

"I love these Kaito Yappers who create content about me and my podcast But given how they obviously use AI to create their content I cant help but wonder if theyre real people 😂"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-08T14:29Z 22.8K followers, 1393 engagements

"Grubles is out of touch. Probably stopped paying attention in 2017 has no idea about Halo X Orchard unified addresses or Tachyon. Also Andrew Miller (co-author of Blockstream's 2015 sidechains paper) is also a co-founder of Zcash. Not to mention how @zooko was on the cryptography mailing list when Bitcoin was announced wrote the first blog post about Bitcoin in January 2009 which Satoshi added to Bitcoin dot org was one of the most hardcore bitcoiners who onboarded lots of OGs and then decided to take on the task of bringing zero knowledge proofs to Bitcoin (which Satoshi also wanted to do"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-08T23:49Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"This cycles narrative just shifted from memecoins & treasury companies to privacy Zcash is leading the pack with amazing pumps reminiscent of bitcoin in 2013. Monero might follow. Then other privacy coins like Zano Firo Beam & Grin might explode. Litecoin & Decred will the remind everyone that they have privacy too And thus a new golden age will dawn on the ashes of the memecoin degeneracy. The next couple of months will be intense"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T00:54Z 22.9K followers, 7796 engagements

"Hi Monero bros if you swapped some XMR for ZEC a week ago instead of trying to fade ZEC's momentum today you could have doubled your XMR come back to this tweet when ZEC flips XMR that's when you could have quadrupled your XMR"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-09T15:22Z 22.9K followers, 10.5K engagements

"@SatoshiDeniz Liquid is not Bitcoin. Just a corporate federation that should never use the words decentralized permissionless or sidechain. No wonder it failed to get any traction most blocks are empty and people prefer Ethereum (100k BTC locked on ETH as WBTC)"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T03:50Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"The biggest psyop in Bitcoin: Spend a decade vilifying banks only to slowly & gradually introduce custodians as a normal part of the economy Now you will find that most bitcoiners no longer hate banks & use Visa cards to spend BTC Network effects cant beat them"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-09-25T14:52Z 22.9K followers, 4484 engagements

"Hi @CoinDeskPodcast Do you ever use WeChat for recording interviews Did someone from your network reach out to my girlfriend @Annie_1371 for an interview about her art I got suspicious when she told me the call happens on WeChat and told her to request a Jitsi/Google Meet call in the browser to avoid installing anything. Heard about cases where people get hacked after fake high profile interviews that actually serve the purpose of giving some hackers access to your computer. Just wanted to make sure"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-05T18:26Z 22.9K followers, 1023 engagements

"Booked a couple of interviews for next week: Wednesday October 22nd: S16 E52 w/ @Truthcoin during which he will demo the latest version of the Drivechain software Friday October 24th: S16 E53 w/ @xenumonero during which I'll destroy the FCMP++ crypto & ruin XMR's bull run"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T19:38Z 22.9K followers, 4830 engagements

"Watched Fight Club again last night From now on Ill refer to religious zealots in the space who never question their thought leaders (for example Knotzis) as space monkeys such a beautiful way to describe them"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-05T06:38Z 22.8K followers, 2286 engagements

"Still the most popular Bitcoin Takeover interview to date 72k views in total and one of the best conversations ever about the evolution of Bitcoin 2.0"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-08T22:29Z 22.9K followers, 1937 engagements

"We could have had everything on Bitcoin One chain to rule them all one coin to dominate XX% of the market But instead we have a dozen of legit blockchains with different features and tradeoffs Bitcoin only dominates XX% of the market And that's fine"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T21:54Z 22.9K followers, 1414 engagements

"If you bought Zcash yesterday with the $XX you stopped paying to the Bitcoin University Now you'd have $XXXX And when Zcash hits $1000 you'll 6x it. Step out of death cult. Even Saylor did"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-08T16:39Z 22.9K followers, 11.7K engagements

"@SteaknShake Zcash bro"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-11T23:59Z 22.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Yes my conscience and ideological beliefs about what Bitcoin should be. If youre inquiring about sponsors take a look at my podcast. Otherwise if you automatically assume that interest in something is the consequence of a payment then I guess you never supported anything without pay"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T04:19Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"My Bitcoin maxi friends who stopped learning in 2017 and haven't read a book since The Bitcoin Standard when I tell them what I discovered on Bitcoin Talk and that they should study Bitcoin history"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T13:22Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"When Saylor & Larry Fink buy bitcoin it's bullish adoption. When Naval & Barry Silbert buy Zcash it's a pump & dump exit scam. Make it make sense. Which ones are OGs who built something and which ones are the suits who only extract value away"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T11:43Z 22.9K followers, 10.2K engagements

"@Zcash eb/acc Encrypted bitcoin/acceleration"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T19:21Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@fosewo_ @peterktodd X but Zcash keeps researching and innovating the next big Bitcoin upgrade"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T07:00Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Privacy coins are the new trenches"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T10:58Z 22.9K followers, 4491 engagements

"@pfiifeflutscher Because apparently the maxi mentality is "look at the price it's a shitcoin""
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T12:54Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"Why this Zcash pump is different from what weve seen in 2016 2018 & 2021: 1/ The technology is finally mature and the user experience for shielded transactions is now simplified to the point where even grandma can understand it. 2/ The world is a much less friendly place with a rise of surveillance and authoritarianism. Cryptocurrency users are now much more aware of the Orwellian nature of blockchains and are willing to try privacy as a protection for themselves and their trades/savings. 3/ Zcash has excellent integrations with exchanges swapping services & DeFi protocols. Much better than"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T09:32Z 22.9K followers, 24.9K engagements

"@The_Fast_One_ The trusted setup was removed in 2019 keep up"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T01:32Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"You cant simultaneously be here for the tech and hate Zcash"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-05T12:45Z 22.9K followers, 82.4K engagements

"Heres what Zcash looked like XX years ago: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin It was built for Bitcoin by academic bitcoiners. Still the best way to add privacy to Bitcoin. Will bitcoiners consider it once again after a decade of improvements Lets pump ZEC to $1000 & find out"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-11T16:04Z 22.9K followers, 6175 engagements

"There isnt a single crypto community thats as hateful spiteful and deserving of getting flipped as the Monero one. In a just world you guys would get flipped by every privacy coin out there from Grin to Zano. Maybe that will convince the loud assholes to find another place to channel their hate. Perhaps that will make the conversations actually constructive"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T01:48Z 22.9K followers, 12K engagements

"Hi @grok youre a stupid parrot ðŸĶœ Maybe also read the replies by @ebfull or some actual cryptographer who understands how this works"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T20:36Z 22.9K followers, 1134 engagements

"Zcash is just like Bitcoin in 2013 appetite for experimenting with new tech clear separation between devs and supporters/non-technical users people send you free coins just for posting an address so they make you feel welcome everyone is helpful the price is still $1000 might pump harder if the shielded adoption happens at this pace and a lot of people ZODL"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T19:06Z 22.9K followers, 10.8K engagements

"Nothing can stop a technology whose time has come"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-09T22:40Z 22.9K followers, 4876 engagements

"Satoshi Nakamoto was in favor of using the Bitcoin blockchain for non-monetary transactions & supported the creation of altcoins. v0.1 of the Bitcoin code included a marketplace in the style of eBay with descriptors for ratings usernames & products. All this data would get registered ON CHAIN. Same for the unfinished poker game which was later removed from the codebase. As for altcoins Satoshi liked the idea of BitDNS (later Namecoin) and wasnt toxic about issuing a new token or using the blockchain technology for other use cases. Its becoming really ridiculous with some guys around here who"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-08-27T20:24Z 22.9K followers, 22.9K engagements

"@DontTraceMeBruh I dont post memes of Hitler and notice peoples noses to make assumptions about ethnicity. I also dont express hatred towards any group of people in which you become a part by virtue of birth. I will criticize choices but not the sperm lottery"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T10:24Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Chartists see patterns assume everything repeats according to their model. TradFi guys only see VCs insiders & cabals. But shielded users see the growing adoption and can project into the future more clearly. For Zcash this is really different. In 2021 mobile wallets for shielded transactions were impossible. Orchard pool adoption was low. There was no DeFi integration no Tachyon on the roadmap for scaling. If you believe that the price action comes from better tech and adoption ZODL. Otherwise listen to Cory and sell now. Better people will pick up your coins. PS: why is it fine when Saylor"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T11:21Z 22.9K followers, 3862 engagements

"@fluffypony No I've read Bruce Schreier too. But were there any open source crypto libraries for ZK proofs before Zcash came around Could ZK rollups or Tornado Cash get built without it Even Vitalik agrees with me here"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-05T05:16Z 22.9K followers, 1203 engagements

"Scaling Zcash Privacy with @ebfull (Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S16 E51)"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-09T18:17Z 22.9K followers, 30.9K engagements

"Congrats to everyone who bought Zcash under $XXX But this ship ain't stopping until double the previous ATH Which is $6k "Why" you may ask. It's simple: the previous ATH was reached in a time when the Zcash network wasn't this great & the liquidity in crypto markets was lower Now the privacy is better. The trusted setup is gone. The user experience is amazing with Zashi on mobile. Swapping other coins into ZEC is easier than ever. Plus it's basically Bitcoin but with the Zerocash upgrade that was proposed for BTC in 2013. but upgraded with XX years worth of research & development. Scaling to"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-02T15:13Z 22.9K followers, 24.1K engagements

"22.6k followers whats up Seems like being right does pay off"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-11T08:34Z 22.9K followers, 3315 engagements

"Yeah I understand that Moneristas do a lot of drugs which makes them paranoid and theyd rather trust DeepSeek than the reasonable explanation that was already published under that Reddit thread. If anything this is further proof the Monero connunity needs serious cryptographers. Not meme makers and shitposters but guys who can tell bullshit from facts and wont propagate the bullshit only because its convenient to virtue signal to their tribe"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T15:03Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Nothing says Human Rights Foundation strategist better than mocking the market performance of privacy tech thats XXX% compatible with Bitcoin. The fact that hes promoting custodial Chaumian ecash as the solution (aka the thing Bitcoin was created to replace) is super funny"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-02T23:40Z 22.9K followers, 9613 engagements

"@pfiifeflutscher Romero is old tech that's incompatible with Bitcoin"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T12:20Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Roger is finally free Cant wait to interview him on my show again He was the 2nd large invin Zcash after Naval. Got introduced to the team by Gavin Andresen who was quite keen on the moon math 🙃"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T03:25Z 22.9K followers, 4506 engagements

"If you asked me X years ago whats the difference between Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies I would tell you that the difference is in politics: Bitcoin is a truth system that everyone takes as-is and finds workarounds while altcoins are political networks with leaders and governance But after witnessing how political Bitcoin became and how participants insert their ideology in debates that should be technical and meritocratic Im not sure about Bitcoins nonpolitical status. As a matter of fact I respect chains that actually get work done and push research instead of endlessly ranting about"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T10:44Z 22.9K followers, 4074 engagements

"Bitcoin is digital gold Zcash is digital Switzerland"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T04:30Z 22.9K followers, 3576 engagements

"I like @jakexmr he's the voice of reason that Monero needs"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T17:04Z 22.9K followers, 6108 engagements

"3 reasons why I prefer Zcash over Monero: 1/ Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin. Started out as the Zerocash soft fork proposal for Bitcoin in 2013. Launched as an altcoin in 2016. Constantly improved but always remained XXX% compatible with Bitcoin. Meanwhile Monero uses a completely different codebase started out as a reaction to address Bitcoins limitations the tech stack cannot get soft forked on Bitcoin. 2/ Zcash produces research beyond its initial scope Thanks to Zcash were witnessing a cryptography revolution with Zero Knowledge proofs. Bitcoin is gonna get ZK rollups from Citrea & Alpen."
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-04T18:41Z 22.9K followers, 51.5K engagements

"Zcash needs a better song to reach $1k"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-07T18:13Z 22.9K followers, 3344 engagements

"The FUD: Zcash was funded by DARPA & Israel FUD killer: that was the 2013 research paper for Bitcoins Zerocash soft fork upgrade. Zcash was built in 2016 by a bunch of Bitcoin OGs from the USA (@zooko @matthew_d_green @socrates1024 @ebfull) with money from US investors such as @naval (the first believer) @rogerkver (who met Zooko through a recommendation from @gavinandresen) and @VitalikButerin (one of the biggest supporters of the project who defended its launch as an altcoin). The government agencies only sponsored individual contributors to the Zerocash paper. If you think they stuck"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-03T16:14Z 22.9K followers, 19.9K engagements

"Quantum Threats & Resistance with @YuviLightman (Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S16 E48)"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-05T07:29Z 22.9K followers, 12.1K engagements

"Zcash and Kaspa find theselves at different extremes Zcash started from the best privacy then spent the next decade making it scalable and integrated with DeFi. Kaspa started from the L1 scaling performance now needs work to get privacy and contracts. Both are legitimately intetrsting experiments that push the limits of Satoshis design. But only Zcash can be soft forked to Bitcoin"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T09:31Z 22.9K followers, 15.5K engagements

"Touched grass today My mind is calm my body is grounded The bullposting shall continue until $1k per ZEC and beyond Moneristas watch and learn"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T17:33Z 22.9K followers, 7202 engagements

"@vellegno It's simple Wownero is a carbon copy with nothing interesting going on for it. Also Monero doesn't produce its own research. It's just a fork of Bytecoin with added improvements that were mostly researched by Blockstream & other Bitcoin devs"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T12:07Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"The cover of @BitcoinMagazine in July 2013 vs today Zerocoin: Bitcoin Privacy Perfected vs Michael Saylor playing chess Cypherpunks vs suits The Bitcoin that went from X to $1000 in X years vs the Bitcoin that went from $10k to $125k in X years Which side are you on"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T11:06Z 22.9K followers, 7068 engagements

"@Openadres Short it"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T08:22Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"Deleted my ironic tweet about getting paid by @vikrantnyc to promote Zcash He just ran a giveaway and I happened to be one of the winners. Thought the Monero bros (who spend a lot of time accusing me of getting paid to promote Zcash) would understand the joke. As it turns out you guys have no sense of humor. Also I don't want to ZODL Vik's money. So if anyone else wants the XXX ZEC post your address below. I'm sick of this tribal shit. I'm here to promote the best Bitcoin-compatible privacy tech not to take part in pointless zero-sum wars. The privacy coin world is small and illiquid enough"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-13T18:02Z 22.9K followers, 7036 engagements

"Hey look people are finally paying me to post stuff about Zcash XX cents and thousands of people see a very bad meme that I will definitely not post after the flipping event because Im more creative than this"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T16:03Z 22.9K followers, 3453 engagements

"Today I had this conversation with someone I still consider a friend Im sure many Bitcoin maximalists think just like him Which is why you should study how Zcash works and what it can bring to Bitcoin Stop being lazy and complacent thats why Bitcoin is losing and failing"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T12:01Z 22.9K followers, 6835 engagements

"Hi Im a shitcoiner. Pretty wild"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-09-30T05:17Z 22.9K followers, 9158 engagements

"Zcash wont flip Monero Until @zashi_app lets us swap XMR for ZEC"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-05T00:17Z 22.9K followers, 15.4K engagements

"I hope we get GSR. But looking at the debates right now I realize that the time for significant upgrades is long gone. People cant even agree about the tradeoffs of increasing OP_RETURN size. I pray to God and to the ghost of Satoshi that we get GSR. But I wont hold my breath"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-12T14:53Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Not sure which cult is the worst: BSV or HEX/PULSE Craig Wrighs loony conspiracists or Richard Hearts greedy Ponzi enjoyers They both suck in their own ways. But their followers/bagholders are the most annoying in their overzealousness"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-09-21T22:01Z 22.8K followers, 1895 engagements

"Gm it seems like the market is waking up to acknowledge the importance of privacy Zcash is at $XX Zano is at $XXXX Monero might be next maybe Litecoin too Haters say I got lucky and bought the bottom of the privacy coin bear market last year. I say you better buckle up"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-09-29T07:14Z 22.9K followers, 1675 engagements

"@rafael_xmr @AlpenLabs @Starknet @EliBenSasson ZK STARKs are not ZK SNARKs"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T13:46Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"Seriously stop posting about encrypted bitcoin"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T18:23Z 22.9K followers, 1539 engagements

"Which dip should I buy"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T21:48Z 22.9K followers, 2527 engagements

"Oh youre so smart & original man Never seen someone else think so clearly about an issue he knows nothing about ðŸ˜Ū Teach me senpai. But please dont look into the history of Zcash and how it was supposed to fix Bitcoins privacy in 2013. Also dont think of a solution to the filter wars other than throwing it under the rug waiting for the next storm"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T08:17Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"lol I love these AI accounts that make up random facts about myself ðŸĪŠ"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-10T19:03Z 22.8K followers, 1297 engagements

"Zcash dance Pepe is summoning $XXX tonight (drawn by @Annie_1371 DM her if you want to commission her for real art or funny stuff like this)"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-11T23:38Z 22.9K followers, 1927 engagements

"@CameronRuggles @Truthcoin @xenumonero Testnets have no incentives no market value no newbie users to request nice UX. You dont make any money breaking a testnet. You cant survey the market demand for a feature using a testnet. You dont refine the simplicity of something on a testnet"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-15T19:51Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements

"Bitcoiners like to talk about persistence proof of work and low-time preference Zcash has been building for XX years: first as a soft fork to improve Bitcoins privacy then as an altcoin in 2016 The devs stuck around all this time making the protocol more scalable: they started from the state of the art privacy then refined it to remove the trusted setup and make the protocol work on mobile phones The devs are all OG bitcoiners who instead of virtue signaling about HODLing and never spending a single sat built the tech stack that can fix many of Bitcoins problems. You can find the Zcashers on"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-11T10:27Z 22.9K followers, 127.6K engagements

"The Zcash bullposting will continue Until the mental health of Monero bros improves"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-11T19:01Z 22.9K followers, 7961 engagements

"Cancel your subscription to Bitcoin University Use that $69/month to buy an interesting altcoin and start your real education journey in which you learn by doing. What's an interesting alt Something that's somewhat similar with Bitcoin but adds features that are considered too experimental or risky for Bitcoin. Short non-exhaustive list of interesting alts: Litecoin with MWEB Zcash Monero Decred Dash Zano Kaspa Firo Grin Beam Alephium Quai even Bitcoin Cash if you're gonna try their CashFusion and CashTokens. "But wait Vlad aren't I gonna lose all my money if I join the shitcoin casino I"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-07T05:57Z 22.9K followers, 13.1K engagements

"My favorite Bitcoin maxi conversation revolves around the XX% of altcoins are scams argument Every time I ask what are the X% (or 0.1%) people frown at me & give the most predictable NPC answer which usually doesnt mention any coin names but calls me a shitcoiner. Very few guys have the balls to admit that Monero Litecoin Grin & Kaspa are fair. Even fewer dare to admit that Ethereum and Zcash have merits and push research beyond commonly held beliefs about what is possible and what is not. But Im always amazed to discover how out of touch these guys are when it comes to markets. Some will"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-09-04T19:08Z 22.9K followers, 16K engagements

"The irony is that if you ask Knut about Tether (which launched on the Omni layer on Bitcoin bloated the bitcoin blockchain for a couple of years before moving to Ethereum and Tron) he will concede that USDT is a net positive But the other stuff thats not built by the holy Bitfinex-Blockstream-Square trinity is a shitcoin Bitcoin is permissionless but double standards apply"
X Link @TheVladCostea 2025-10-14T08:46Z 22.9K followers, 1692 engagements