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# ![@TheVladCostea Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::574690409.png) @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](/list/cryptocurrencies)  #1413 [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [gaming](/list/gaming)  XXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) #600, [zec](/topic/zec) #463, [money](/topic/money) 1.55%, [ethereum](/topic/ethereum) #5065, [inflation](/topic/inflation) #1432, [all the](/topic/all-the) 0.78%, [litecoin](/topic/litecoin) #461, [he will](/topic/he-will) #1068, [coins](/topic/coins) #500, [xmr](/topic/xmr) #203

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@cameronruggles](/creator/undefined) [@zooko](/creator/undefined) [@vellegno](/creator/undefined) [@myfanforce](/creator/undefined) [@btctkvr](/creator/undefined) [@aaronrday](/creator/undefined) [@w0wn3r0](/creator/undefined) [@vitalikbuterin](/creator/undefined) [@xenumonero](/creator/undefined) [@donttracemebruh](/creator/undefined) [@mdsiyam444](/creator/undefined) [@pfiifeflutscher](/creator/undefined) [@ragnarok88123](/creator/undefined) [@satoshideniz](/creator/undefined) [@ebfull](/creator/undefined) [@oxsiyam34](/creator/undefined) [@rafaelxmr](/creator/undefined) [@in4crypto](/creator/undefined) [@thedesertlynx](/creator/undefined) [@u5321977](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum) [Litecoin (LTC)](/topic/litecoin) [Kaspa (KAS)](/topic/kaspa) [Dogecoin (DOGE)](/topic/dogecoin) [PSYOP (PSYOP)](/topic/$psyop) [Sui (SUI)](/topic/$sui) [xMoney (UTK)](/topic/xmoney) [Bitcoin Cash (BCH)](/topic/bitcoin-cash) [Solana (SOL)](/topic/solana)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::574690409/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Scaling Zcash Privacy with @ebfull (Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S16 E51)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976351425157607536) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-09T18:17Z 23K followers, 33.7K 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978450963976343596) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-15T13:20Z 23K followers, 7189 engagements


"Satoshi Nakamoto was a shitcoiner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1944099106089013602) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-07-12T18:18Z 22.9K followers, 9251 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1971226314062561458) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-09-25T14:52Z 22.9K followers, 4491 engagements


"Hi Im a shitcoiner. Pretty wild"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1972893568651202700) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-09-30T05:17Z 22.9K followers, 9164 engagements


"Bitcoin protects you against inflation. Zcash protects you against Bitcoins flaws. Soon X BTC = X ZEC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1973884931530215551) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-02T22:56Z 22.9K followers, 16.8K engagements


"@Bitbello Roger Ver"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976035529633505422) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-08T21:22Z 23K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976050398130765890) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-08T22:21Z 22.9K followers, 25.4K 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976619029021565188) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-10T12:01Z 23K followers, 6883 engagements


"The Zcash bullposting will continue Until the mental health of Monero bros improves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1977087129223413991) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-11T19:01Z 22.9K followers, 8299 engagements


"@The_Fast_One_ The trusted setup was removed in 2019 keep up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1977185549070090326) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-12T01:32Z 23K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1977315755717746997) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-12T10:09Z 22.9K followers, 10.7K 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1977551955967754297) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-13T01:48Z 23K followers, 12.1K 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978183739701170230) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-14T19:38Z 22.9K followers, 5007 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978396774986379763) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-15T09:45Z 22.9K followers, 3168 engagements


""Zcash is just a testnet for Bitcoin and Ethereum. All its features will be taken by bigger networks it's worthless" If you believe there's no value in investing in research & development for some of the most exciting privacy tech then just stick with BTC/ETH. Also testnets offer no incentives to break because the folks finding critical bugs will not be able to make money. So fewer hackers will care to look at the code. Testnets also don't offer any market information. Everyone using a testnet is a dev who most likely uses command line. None of these guys knows how much market demand there is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978732166159753429) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-16T07:58Z 23K followers, 6879 engagements


"Is he right chat Are we going to 0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978842222364659859) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-16T15:15Z 22.9K followers, 4483 engagements


"My rent is due in X weeks I bought the dip with the rent money But it keeps dipping even lower 🥲🥲🥲"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978860795485102344) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-16T16:29Z 22.9K followers, 2728 engagements


"@BitcoinCom @freedomdollar5 Send it all to @ vladzz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978891839898788174) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-16T18:32Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Wait so how do I also get followed by @JohnCena I think his you cant see me gimmick would make him a great internet privacy ambassador after he retires from wrestling Maybe I should have him on my podcast sometime to talk about money nobody can take away from you 🫡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978918494642090080) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-16T20:18Z 22.9K followers, 1901 engagements


"This hero dreams of having XXX ZEC Me too sir. But you can get there first This is his address: u147ate0232lpg99gap9czf5fpxn4976ql6nl5d5mczgknjx0y06x0puj7mulwpk8ncypc9kughz9e2qkun3zl7qs5vryxsjlu0jzdchf7n0f5faq24mhjhwnrzs64dqz5qdhjfkh5fr5ype8amtj5544xw5e6la8kcs47ek7tgvtjak7s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978919329392419069) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-16T20:21Z 22.9K followers, 5284 engagements


"Gm what happened to Uptober We have X weeks to save this magical month (and pay rent) 🙈"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979075470617383335) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-17T06:42Z 22.9K followers, 1201 engagements


"Zooko The guy who was on the cryptography mailing list in 2008 when Satoshi announced Bitcoin then wrote the first blog post about Bitcoin (which Satoshi added to Bitcoin dot org) onboarded a lot of OGs to Bitcoin (including Slush creator of the first mining pool) and spent the next half a decade being one of the biggest supporters of Bitcoin before deciding he wants to build the best privacy out there with Zcash To answer your question directly: he wasn't involved with any shitcoins none of them ended up being scams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979088442635227197) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-17T07:33Z 22.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@unstoppablebyhs My investment thesis will pay the rent. eventually when Uptober resumes 🙃 Sorry I never took any money to interview someone on my show and I don't plan to start doing it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979088795518529760) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-17T07:35Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements


"Youre the one who accused me of it. I cannot prove anything because even if I show you my wallets/bank account you will say oh youre hiding another wallet. So go ahead and ask everyone in Zcash. All the companies that have a marketing budget. Search for any statement that includes my name and an amount of money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979168331279011881) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-17T12:51Z 22.9K followers, XX engagements


"My 3rd year dentistry student girlfriend decided I should be her patient 🙈 I wonder if she will still kiss me after discovering the cavities 🦷 Love you @Annie_1371 ❤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979202467796545870) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-17T15:06Z 23K followers, 2302 engagements


"@Bitcoinschurch @btc_holder @naval @matthew_d_green @zooko Youre stuck in 2016. Look what they built after X years of work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979275379350344123) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-17T19:56Z 23K followers, XX engagements


"Random prediction: The bitcoin bull market will not resume until daddy Trump bails out a bunch of treasury companies that are now rekt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979276275618644117) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-17T20:00Z 23K followers, 1367 engagements


"I want a car thats X% computer Fuck this dystopian shit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1949172784019476527) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-07-26T18:19Z 23K followers, 9593 engagements


"4 years ago I told my fellow Romanians to stay away from EGLD/Elrond/MultiversX There just wasnt anything interesting about it. Premined PoS that does state sharding on the EVM design. Meh. I received death threats at the time hackers tried to break into my accounts. But I was so freaking right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1962959243004514744) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-09-02T19:22Z 23K followers, 3335 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1972560543765643734) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-09-29T07:14Z 23K followers, 1678 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1973895825664442603) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-02T23:40Z 23K followers, 9620 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1974024265696456886) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-03T08:10Z 23K followers, 6336 engagements


"Will interview @ebfull in X hours The brilliant cryptographer who saved Zcash many times: he contributed to the fixing of the unexploited inflation bug figured out how to remove the trusted setup and also came up with a way to make shielded transactions scale to billions of users (Tachyon) If the price of ZEC goes beyond $XXX during our interview well do the dance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976246355484901462) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-09T11:20Z 23K followers, 17K 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976307231101464964) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-09T15:22Z 23K followers, 10.5K engagements


"Going live with @ebfull in X hour Well talk about his decade of Zcash contributions during which he helped fix the inflation bug removed the trusted setup and started work on scaling privacy If ZEC hits $XXX during our stream well do the dance 🙃"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976334337877622794) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-09T17:09Z 23K followers, 3084 engagements


"Told you so Next target: flip Monero"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976344788187435106) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-09T17:51Z 23K followers, 10.2K engagements


"Oh wow @rogerkver is finally free I wonder what he will do next 🙃"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976426696745046524) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-09T23:16Z 23K followers, 4079 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976465731316482350) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-10T01:52Z 23K followers, 7657 engagements


"I love this timeline People in my DMs are thanking me for telling them to buy Zcash Monero bros in my mentions are sending their worst regards You cant even imagine what kind of big names are liking my tweets & listening to my pod right now. I was so right it hurts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976577220610236647) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-10T09:15Z 23K followers, 9595 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976677776754344435) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-10T15:54Z 23K followers, 4058 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976690363315388790) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-10T16:44Z 23K followers, 6492 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 🤷🏻♂ @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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976718259308425630) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-10T18:35Z 23K followers, 4890 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976737915523711389) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-10T19:53Z 23K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976740136739058083) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-10T20:02Z 23K followers, 7893 engagements


"Which dip should I buy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976766868993245518) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-10T21:48Z 23K followers, 2542 engagements


"Did Zcash just prove to be a better store of value than Bitcoin or what Super high conviction nobody wants to unshield and dump on exchanges 🙃"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976819109154406850) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-11T01:16Z 23K followers, 15K 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 🥲"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976861773405077828) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-11T04:05Z 23K followers, 7125 engagements


"22.6k followers whats up Seems like being right does pay off"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976929358028865570) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-11T08:34Z 23K followers, 3324 engagements


"But what can I buy with shielded Zcash Apparently laptops and all kinds of electronics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976930478881194200) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-11T08:38Z 23K followers, 7150 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1977042645458239773) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-11T16:04Z 23K followers, 6224 engagements


"@vellegno Your ARRR couldn't exist without that XX% aand the people you disrespect"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1977702773723435413) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-13T11:47Z 23K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1977797228816150720) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-13T18:02Z 23K followers, 7105 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1977808145830621656) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-13T18:46Z 23K followers, 15.7K engagements


"@U5321977 SegWit was activated on Groestlcoin & Litecoin first then Lightning Network was tested on the Litecoin main net for a few months. Unfortunately I dont have more examples"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978373579696697353) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-15T08:13Z 23K followers, XXX engagements


"The year is 2025 and now I agree with Vitalik on Bitcoin matters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978741844826611722) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-16T08:36Z 23K followers, 7814 engagements


"Ok guys Im done No more Zcash tweets I dont want any trouble Zcash zcash zec zec zec Microphone zec zec zec zec"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978949578746417362) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-16T22:22Z 23K followers, 3374 engagements


"Signal is potentially integrating Bitcoin payments. Zashi already lets you send encrypted messages in transactions that cost less than a cent and take long enough to finalize to prevent spam. Send me a message tell me how you feel today: u1hpxpk4u6g8ejqfayqxqfaekljeym69qe99ltnpjflk5lwc4ra6z4yurjfrcq3pd7q9wg0xy0dvvek9luxa5j5ylhp56saplnw59z3pu3pnpddmjrkguzp4xn759qezkc3vwrq086m6wamfmak83wlzxcg2n9v0j3fhnfz86ntu0qamuy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978961688738070584) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-16T23:10Z 23K followers, 4175 engagements


""Oh Vlad you're getting paid to tweet about Zcash" No dude. I bought some ZEC a year ago at $XX Now I'm excited to see that I was right: my fundamental analysis turned out to be correct and I should have bought more I just wish more people would see that Zcash built the tech that can make Bitcoin private starting from the 2013 Zerocash soft fork which has since been refined and perfected to remove the trusted setup and scale. But the culture changed so much that Bitcoin consists of lazy morons who look at a price chart and say "no it's a shitcoin. If this was any good the price would pump"."  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979101469132423378) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-17T08:25Z 23K followers, 10.1K engagements


"Not sure this guy understands that these different buyers have no faith or conviction in anything and will panic sell at a measly X% profit just to look better in the quarterly reports"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979230077951889875) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-17T16:56Z 23K followers, 1929 engagements


"Been keeping my Bitcoin Core v30 node online 24/7 just to spite the knotzis who seem to obsess over metrics and stats. Pro tip: if your node is online 24/7 but doesnt send or receive transactions its useless. The miners the exchanges & the business accepting BTC run 24/7 nodes already. Youre not adding any value to the network if you just stay online. But if you care about live stats sure. It looks nice when more nodes are online. The important question is: why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979277800994673121) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-17T20:06Z 23K followers, 1756 engagements


"Id love to see Zcash becoming a serious threat to Bitcoin adoption Cannibalize on the branding (encrypted bitcoin) take away transactions fees from the Bitcoin miners outshine existing layer X solutions end up on the balance sheets of companies. Thats the kind of event that would really push Bitcoin developers to get over this social justice Karen phase and truly embrace innovation. Bitcoin hasnt had serious competition in a long time and it shows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979327801821139416) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-17T23:24Z 23K followers, 7282 engagements


"@TanukiBTC If that will create the best privacy for Bitcoin Im fine with that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979425009211969623) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-18T05:51Z 23K followers, XXX engagements


"@CameronRuggles Hasnt been a threat since 2017. Now even ETH accepts that bitcoin is the better money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979426894052229399) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-18T05:58Z 23K followers, XXX engagements


"Bitcoin Kaspa & Proof of Work with @hashdag (Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S16 E41)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1958580406397411410) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-08-21T17:22Z 23K followers, 110.5K 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1974380665702621290) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-04T07:46Z 23K followers, 4443 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976708055300464825) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-10T17:55Z 23K followers, 7103 engagements


"I guess Kaito Yapping is like OnlyFans for nerds You literally prostitute your intellectual output for good stats Then you can add "top 1%" to your Twitter bio so a bunch of AI accounts can generate an infinite loop of engagement Kind of brilliant but ultimately sad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978966265763913783) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-16T23:28Z 23K followers, 1197 engagements


"This is a popular narrative thats floating around Oh Naval is trying to do with Zcash what Elon did with Dogecoin in 2021 But @Naval was the first big investor in Zcash back in 2016. The first person to give @matthew_d_green & @zooko a chance after many other VCs got cold feet because of the privacy and the regulatory uncertainty surrounding it. The second big investor was @rogerkver who got introduced to Zooko via @gavinandresen. At the time Gavin described Zooko as the guy who can do the moon math. Its all out there on the internet just do a search or ask Grok. The reason why Zcash is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979078703230357689) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-17T06:55Z 23K followers, 23.8K engagements


"Like and retweet if you would like to see a debate between @adam3us and @NickSzabo4 on my podcast Which one is your favorite Satoshi candidate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979968270108123432) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-19T17:49Z 23K followers, 17.4K engagements


"If you think Zcash is a shitcoin Then youre either a lying LARP or else have no consideration for the beautiful science of cryptography 🔐"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979996387841376496) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-19T19:41Z 23K followers, 7877 engagements


"Zcashers are my favorite bitcoiners"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1980234803241967663) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-20T11:29Z 23K followers, 3519 engagements


"@bitcoin_fiend Im currently outperforming bitcoin by a lot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1980285207321231631) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-20T14:49Z 23K followers, XXX engagements


"Hi @LynAldenContact @naval I feel like the two of you should really talk about Bitcoin privacy & Zcash How about doing a call on my podcast to figure out where you find common ground Im available this week from Thursday to Sunday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1980286739660042669) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-20T14:55Z 23K followers, 5659 engagements


"The encrypted bitcoin meme has so much potential. It triggers all the right reactions from all the right people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1980290986560643242) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-20T15:12Z 23K followers, 2553 engagements


"Nothing can stop a technology whose time has come"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976417529896763805) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-09T22:40Z 23K followers, 4892 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1977441656149266699) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-12T18:30Z 23K followers, 9734 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1977910189899604409) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-14T01:31Z 23K followers, 10.3K 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978426379008979267) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-15T11:43Z 23K followers, 12.3K engagements


"Yes I mentioned Zcash too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979648280247329108) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-18T20:38Z 23K followers, 6683 engagements


"Gm to everyone who is still HODLing strong because you know the bull market aint over 🫡 Double Gm to everyone who understands that privacy is the new big narrative 😎"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979778010271367255) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-19T05:13Z 23K followers, 2276 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1974625546865668446) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-04T23:59Z 23K followers, 14.7K engagements


"You cant simultaneously be here for the tech and hate Zcash"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1974818109224632385) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-05T12:45Z 23K followers, 82.4K 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976016356400075020) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-08T20:06Z 23K followers, 11.7K 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976451169255055547) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-10T00:54Z 23K followers, 7829 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976596151177449495) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-10T10:30Z 23K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1977707640164655362) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-13T12:07Z 23K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1977828220184539255) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-13T20:06Z 23K followers, 38.9K 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978030861648818343) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-14T09:31Z 23K followers, 15.9K engagements


"@r_a_d_a_n_n_e @exitnode_ @TheDesertLynx @vinibarbosabr 7000k Holy shit thats X mil that I aint getting Why not 7777 though Or 6666 whatever floats your boat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1978920387653042381) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-16T20:26Z 23K followers, XX engagements


"I hope you guys noticed the daily podcast clips on the @BTCTKVR page Theyre a good way to learn something new in only a couple of minutes every day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979596856926871650) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-18T17:14Z 23K followers, 1941 engagements


"This is honestly why I Zcash Its my protest against this shitty culture and Im learning A LOT about what Bitcoin could have been a decade ago. Im here to be curious and learn new stuff not circlejerk and virtue signal about saving the world. Had I used the toxic maximalist mindset of not being curious about new tech when I first discovered Bitcoin I would have found a million excuses to discard it and stay away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979652907797463052) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-18T20:56Z 23K followers, 7794 engagements


"6 years ago I attended the Transylvania Crypto Conf and it was some of the most fun Ive ever had @Cryptopoly delivered his best rap act @adam3us appraised his skills the price of bitcoin was like $8500 and everyone was optimistic about the future. Maybe next year I should organize another one of these conferences here in Romania"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979661173785321711) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-18T21:29Z 23K followers, 1615 engagements


"THIS IS SO COOL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979980585536795049) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-19T18:38Z 23K followers, 1725 engagements


"Pick your future: 1/ XX million bitcoins with no privacy and institutional scaling for the masses. The price goes up against other assets the store of value narrative works but holders have no privacy and their government can confiscate the wealth. 2/ XXX million coins on XX different networks that offer various features with different tradeoffs. Swapping between them is as easy as transferring credit between bank accounts and the free market decides what the demand for this existing supply is (and therefore the price). Privacy contracts scalability are all possible on different chains but"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1980143671900053540) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-20T05:26Z 23K followers, 5153 engagements


"@Kev_nRobbins Where will the research and experimentation for new stuff happen Definitely not on Bitcoin which will use the safest version"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1980264890754310605) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-20T13:28Z 23K followers, XX engagements


"@0xMert_ @gladstein Bitcoin was created to replace the centralized and censorship-friendly Chaumian ecash. Zcash was created to make Bitcoin private"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1980292138761150806) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-20T15:16Z 23K followers, XXX engagements


"On February 2nd 2024 I inscribed my first ordinal on Bitcoin Something I knew would trigger people My first series 8101 Trump card which I also own on Ethereum (ERC XXX token whose image is stored on IPFS lol). This felt exciting and fun at the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1979669996633821215) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-18T22:04Z 23K followers, 1560 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](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1976957869409841504) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-11T10:27Z 23K followers, 128.3K engagements


"Its nice to see that even the most closed-minded of the toxic Bitcoin conservatives are now paying attention to Zcash They might be negative about it now but once they figure out how far this project has made it maybe theyll want to soft fork Zerocash on Bitcoin 🙃"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1980205368773951881) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-20T09:32Z 23K followers, 2320 engagements


"Just onboarded @robin_linus to Zcash I offered to pay him for drinks in bitcoin or zcash He chose Zcash as he was curious to see how it works Encrypted bitcoin lets go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1980397043475706134) [@TheVladCostea](/creator/x/TheVladCostea) 2025-10-20T22:13Z 23K followers, XXX engagements