#  @zooko zookoπ‘π¦π¦π¦ β© zookoπ‘π¦π¦π¦ β© posts on X about zcash, bitcoin, zec, money the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::14182218/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +81% - [--] Month [-------] -10% - [--] Months [---------] +276% - [--] Year [---------] +5.30% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::14182218/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] -31% - [--] Month [---] +22% - [--] Months [-----] +90% - [--] Year [-----] +9% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::14182218/followers)  - [--] Week [-------] +0.07% - [--] Month [-------] +0.26% - [--] Months [-------] +18% - [--] Year [-------] +20% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::14182218/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) #1970 [finance](/list/finance) #4696 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [exchanges](/list/exchanges) [countries](/list/countries) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [currencies](/list/currencies) **Social topic influence** [zcash](/topic/zcash) #12, [bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin), [zec](/topic/zec), [money](/topic/money) #1259, [ethereum](/topic/ethereum), [blockchain](/topic/blockchain), [hm](/topic/hm), [coinbase](/topic/coinbase), [coins](/topic/coins), [if you](/topic/if-you) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@zcash](/creator/undefined) [@vitalikbuterin](/creator/undefined) [@thedesertlynx](/creator/undefined) [@in4crypto](/creator/undefined) [@zashiapp](/creator/undefined) [@natezec](/creator/undefined) [@zerodartz](/creator/undefined) [@electriccoinco](/creator/undefined) [@0xmert](/creator/undefined) [@aquietinvestor](/creator/undefined) [@jswihart](/creator/undefined) [@zecrimoni](/creator/undefined) [@thevladcostea](/creator/undefined) [@zcashfoundation](/creator/undefined) [@zcashmedia](/creator/undefined) [@nanogptcom](/creator/undefined) [@cruisezodler](/creator/undefined) [@aeyakovenko](/creator/undefined) [@zksquirrel](/creator/undefined) [@robustus](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Zcash (ZEC)](/topic/zcash) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum) [Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN)](/topic/coinbase) [Monero (XMR)](/topic/monero) [Solana (SOL)](/topic/solana) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [renZEC (RENZEC)](/topic/renzec) [WalletConnect Token (WCT)](/topic/wallet) [Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (CMG)](/topic/chipotle) [ZClassic (ZCL)](/topic/zclassic) [Litecoin (LTC)](/topic/litecoin) [zkSync (ZK)](/topic/zksync) [QuantumCore (QBS)](/topic/quantum) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "https://www.reddit.com/r/zec/comments/moj2kr/my_bull_case_for_zec_follow_the_brains_follow_the https://www.reddit.com/r/zec/comments/moj2kr/my_bull_case_for_zec_follow_the_brains_follow_the" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1381273384412143616) 2021-04-11T15:50Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements "These are my latest thoughts about Zcash. What it is how it is changing the course of history and how my views on Zcash differ greatly from the conventional wisdom: Thanks @tomwaltonpocock and @RaoulGMI https://youtu.be/ibA_4kwd_YI https://youtu.be/ibA_4kwd_YI" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1409597595467481090) 2021-06-28T19:40Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements "Okay okay I'll spell it out: Zcash is uniquely positioned by having both (a) institutional acceptance (the above two examples are merely examples of a much larger pattern) and (b) cryptographic-strength on-chain privacy" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1471187977480986624) 2021-12-15T18:38Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements "@PesceDory @jswihart I support every group that wants to cooperate with each other in their own way having their own chain-fork of Zcash. I love Ycash although I dont actually use it. If somebody wants to make the no t-addresses Friendly Fork of Zcash Im all for it. https://electriccoin.co/blog/future-friendly-fork/ https://electriccoin.co/blog/future-friendly-fork/" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1814020155288011217) 2024-07-18T19:31Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements "@PesceDory @jswihart P.S. But dont confuse *chain-forks like Ycash which are Friendly because they rewarded every current holder of ZEC with their newly created coins with source-code-forks such as ZClassic Horizen etc etc which stiffed the original ZEC holders. Those are Unfriendly Forks" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1814020878276940011) 2024-07-18T19:34Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements "@Zip227 Ok to be clear either of those suggested changes would be a huge engineering effort and introduce huge delays and complexity and risks so I dont say it lightly" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2005321205990203867) 2025-12-28T16:53Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements "by @BradyDale https://www.frontstageexit.com/p/backstage-pass-nobody-told-you-so https://www.frontstageexit.com/p/backstage-pass-nobody-told-you-so" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2007138904634478737) 2026-01-02T17:16Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements "Principles like these are always how it starts. In the coming weeks we plan to start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers. Were sharing our principles early on how well approach adsguided by putting user trust and transparency first as we work to make AI accessible to everyone. What matters most: - Responses in https://t.co/3UQJsdriYR In the coming weeks we plan to start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers. Were sharing our principles early on how well approach adsguided by putting user trust and transparency first as we work to make AI accessible to everyone. What matters most: -" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2012276457993814212) 2026-01-16T21:31Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements "This gives me a lot of optimism for Zcash: seeing this post on the Zcash Forum from Taylor Hornby and then switching to Twitter and seeing this post from Sacha St Leger: https://x.com/sacha/status/2012863215718318385 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/a-message-from-the-bootstrap-board/54329/17 zcash is bigger than zashi the chips will fall where they fall but if we couldn't survive zashi being destroyed/compromised/taken down we weren't going to succeed anyway as long as we preserve and encourage a culture of integrity and trust all will be fine. this is by far" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2012958643386540451) 2026-01-18T18:41Z 107.2K followers, 13.9K engagements "This is super cool It can generate succinct proofs of the history of the Zcash blockchain Thanks Abdel and other Starkies Zm. Ok we did it. Zoro (Zcash ZK client) hits a major milestone: we can prove the header chain and generate self-sufficient SPV proofs. Why is this a big deal Were compressing Zcash history with STARKs so you can verify the entire Zcash header chain in milliseconds instead https://t.co/tHAWv0ROcs Zm. Ok we did it. Zoro (Zcash ZK client) hits a major milestone: we can prove the header chain and generate self-sufficient SPV proofs. Why is this a big deal Were compressing" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2013277362100871660) 2026-01-19T15:48Z 107.2K followers, 10.3K engagements "@yanivgraph @NTmoney Zcash" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2016248251566194783) 2026-01-27T20:33Z 107.2K followers, [--] engagements "@JaEsf Oh hey I don't even know if you were right or wrong about this. I guess the El Salvador Bitcoin / Lightning Network experiment is still intact Haven't heard much about it recently" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2016259028008243560) 2026-01-27T21:16Z 107.2K followers, [--] engagements "@RamXBT @sacha @rabizzzy I'm mostly just interested in this because (a) "vote on values but bet on beliefs" is an awesome idea and (b) sacha seems to be interested in metadao so that's positive" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2016268181044920809) 2026-01-27T21:52Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements "Wow this is so cool I hope they can figure out how to use this huge pool of money to effectively support and improve Ethereum's security for many many years. While looking through old contracts I found a post from [----] saying unclaimed TheDAO funds would be used for Ethereum security. Nearly ten years later I made the proposal to put these funds to use and I'm proud to say that [-----] ETH will be used to fund Ethereum security While looking through old contracts I found a post from [----] saying unclaimed TheDAO funds would be used for Ethereum security. Nearly ten years later I made the" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2016953512970584426) 2026-01-29T19:16Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements "@roommatemusing According to @grok no:" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2017463088870756734) 2026-01-31T05:00Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements "It just delights me that it is [----] and we're still making big progress on information-theory tools: compression error-correction cryptography etc" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2017685408252105072) 2026-01-31T19:44Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements "Reading *all* of the web pages about Fil-C (thanks to the Shielded Labs engineers for telling/reminding me about it). Super exciting stuff I love it. It's a general-purpose highly-compatible comprehensive memory-safety hack for C/C++. https://fil-c.org/ https://fil-c.org/" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022714849181003855) 2026-02-14T16:49Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "@lonelysloth_sec @samczsun @code46ash To be clear I personally wield no special authority over any of this except for my anonymous onchain coin voting so I feel free to throw out wild speculations like this on twitter to see if they spark good ideas" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1987624896906871142) 2025-11-09T20:54Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@TomZarebczan @lamb356_ Whoo-hoo I upgraded to iOS [----] and check *this* shit out Numthreads 1" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022523981035696546) 2026-02-14T04:11Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "I noticed this detail of Fil's engineering that I love. It resonates with how we work at Shielded Labs (advancing the sustainability security and scalability of Zcash). To discover great designs it really helps to mark off entire areas of the design space as Non-Goals" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022714852234477724) 2026-02-14T16:49Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "@dwillems42 @PelicanInvasion @NanoGPTcom" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022725400057581572) 2026-02-14T17:31Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements "I unironically think that in the year let's say in [----]. That in the year [----] that the total value (or "market cap") of [--] million ZEC could be worth more than the total value in the year [----] of all money goods assets and resources on Earth. This. This" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022757584554340465) 2026-02-14T19:39Z 107.3K followers, 36.6K engagements "@gwern @ForbesTech At least that's what's happened to a whole lot of other people" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022880270685192411) 2026-02-15T03:46Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@BenDiFrancesco @VitalikButerin Not sure if you're asking for my opinion but: Ren (RenBTC and RenZEC) Keep (tBTC) and Kyber/Bitgo (WBTC) all have good tradeoffs and should keep pushing forward. And they should launch tZEC and WZEC as soon as possible βΊ" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1289647410356969472) 2020-08-01T19:41Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements "@r1csqap @reddevinc Your privacy comes for the fact that you started with ZEC in your self-sovereign shielded wallet. Thats all you need (in this simple example)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1972054061555110391) 2025-09-27T21:41Z 107.3K followers, 36.8K engagements "For example the way the government of Canada under Justin Trudeau seized the Bitcoin donations that people from around the world made to the Canadian Trucker protestors. That's not an aberration that's the inevitable consequence of mandatory transparency" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1983596196817236342) 2025-10-29T18:06Z 107.3K followers, 37.3K engagements "@hashdag π«‘ (BTW I've always loved your PoW DAG ideas as you know and I kind of try to keep a little awareness of current Kaspa development mostly just by reading twitter but of course I'm too focused on Crosslink and a fee market for Zcash to keep up.)" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1988705094389682417) 2025-11-12T20:26Z 107.3K followers, 64.3K engagements "Oh boy oh boy oh boy improved Zcash coinholders voting coming soon https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/new-token-holder-voting-implementation/54547 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/new-token-holder-voting-implementation/54547" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2018780433828262353) 2026-02-03T20:15Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "Im so excited about Zcash. β₯" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2019850791855735128) 2026-02-06T19:08Z 107.3K followers, 15.8K engagements "@valkenburgh @lawrencehwhite1 There was an altcoin in the pre-ICO era: Freicoin" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1813921517371109463) 2024-07-18T12:59Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "Great example of how a bug in the LLVM compiler resulted in a vulnerability in the Aave contract on ZKsync that could have resulted in user funds being stolen if the good guys hadnt found it first: https://www.certora.com/blog/llvm-bug https://www.certora.com/blog/llvm-bug" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011821401414791444) 2026-01-15T15:22Z 107.3K followers, 64.7K engagements "@CMagnialis Okay this is pretty good so far Still no ZIP [---] (or other possible ZEC-recycling protocols) and it is bad on mobile but it's pretty good Please try it out (on desktop) and tell me what you think I'm running out of steam for tonight. https://zooko.github.io/zcash-network-sustainability-simulator/ https://zooko.github.io/zcash-network-sustainability-simulator/" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2021054907420377414) 2026-02-10T02:53Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "@gwern @ForbesTech (Whole thread not just that tweet.)" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022884231756587410) 2026-02-15T04:02Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements "Zcash is winning. https://medium.com/@zooko/48579b89770e https://medium.com/@zooko/48579b89770e" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1821978454050664842) 2024-08-09T18:34Z 107.3K followers, 686.2K engagements "@reallyill Haha check it out. Open source projects queuing up to get prs from Crabby Rathbun. π https://x.com/gakonst/status/2022062974131917212 https://t.co/MwM6AkcdOr https://x.com/gakonst/status/2022062974131917212 https://t.co/MwM6AkcdOr" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022064717926367437) 2026-02-12T21:46Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@gwern @ForbesTech See also https://x.com/gojomo/status/1913173681406369849 @zooko @nate_zec @jakegallen or if dialog accepts keyboard-ok (maybe even unwisely as default & instantly upon popup) maybe caught user typing at critical moment a live feed of keystrokes - in screencast or maybe even just sounds - might enable optimal popup timing to (eg) catch a CR or Y. https://x.com/gojomo/status/1913173681406369849 @zooko @nate_zec @jakegallen or if dialog accepts keyboard-ok (maybe even unwisely as default & instantly upon popup) maybe caught user typing at critical moment a live feed of" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022884183874637905) 2026-02-15T04:02Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "Good old fashioned open-source hacking feels like a blessed relief" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022899534020673622) 2026-02-15T05:03Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "Can anyone figure out why I cant use SharedArrayBuffer on iOS (but can on macOS) Try it yourself: https://blake3-wasm.pages.dev/browser-test https://blake3-wasm.pages.dev/browser-test" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022511675753017600) 2026-02-14T03:22Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "I asked a Zcash user who is not a "computer person" much less a "crypto person" how we should market it. She said "The government can't control your money. Also if the government collapses or the banks collapse you still have it."" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022719137038917714) 2026-02-14T17:06Z 107.3K followers, 13.7K engagements "@dwillems42 @PelicanInvasion @NanoGPTcom @nym" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022756047769788533) 2026-02-14T19:33Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements "@Arvolear Unstoppable private money :-)" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022808931630784719) 2026-02-14T23:03Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "@gwern @ForbesTech They'd try to get you into a video call where the audio appears to not be working and then under heat-of-the-moment social pressure ask you to install a fix or switch to a different video app. That different fix/plugin/app would 0wn your system and/or exfiltrate your secrets" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022880215542673811) 2026-02-15T03:46Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "visually: (Had to use a log scale because smalloc is so much faster than some of the other ones on this test.) https://github.com/zooko/bench-allocators/blob/main/benchmark-results/AppleM4Max.darwin25/COMBINED-REPORT.md https://github.com/zooko/bench-allocators/blob/main/benchmark-results/AppleM4Max.darwin25/COMBINED-REPORT.md" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2023055414217335254) 2026-02-15T15:22Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@cz_binance Youre right and the same goes for more or less all normal transactions between businesses consumers or friends. 99% of all normal economic activity requires privacy" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2023059015563874386) 2026-02-15T15:37Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "@VitalikButerin I remember this essay Very interesting. I think I agree about Bitcoin maximalism/fundamentalism per se but I'm not sure about Bitcoin more broadlythere could be live players in Bitcoin outside of the fundamentalist camp" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1292227112229691392) 2020-08-08T22:32Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements "πππ This is the most awesome thing I've read in weeks. πππ Sorry if this doesn't mean anything to you. I can't explain. well played signal https://t.co/fUjsbbAb63 well played signal https://t.co/fUjsbbAb63" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1384918442797674506) 2021-04-21T17:14Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements "Squirrel from ZecHub is an excellent spokesperson for Zcash. Hes approachable and he addresses the Big Questions the important ones that most of us hardcore Zcashers have long since forgotten about such as Is it true nobody can verify the total amount of Zcash Great conversation among two communities driven by shared values $BAT $ZEC π¦xπ¦ https://t.co/Ny92LSFYzQ Great conversation among two communities driven by shared values $BAT $ZEC π¦xπ¦ https://t.co/Ny92LSFYzQ" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1766256620143624356) 2024-03-09T00:16Z 107.3K followers, 11.2K engagements "@walletofsatoshi (Featuring a cameo appearance by Andy the Sleepy Old Cat.)" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1804977020356698490) 2024-06-23T20:37Z 107.3K followers, 20.6K engagements "Just bought this coffee drink at the Starbucks in this Barnes and Noble. Paid with Zcash. This revealed zero information about my crypto holdings and my other transactions. As of today only Zcash can do this. https://3xpl.com/zcash/transaction/aa9c326cb592a2317d57e3e6bd12c52467b2c241029dd0cffcabd6ed30b43ef6 https://3xpl.com/zcash/transaction/aa9c326cb592a2317d57e3e6bd12c52467b2c241029dd0cffcabd6ed30b43ef6" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1869565118931173710) 2024-12-19T02:07Z 107.3K followers, 186.8K engagements "Reconsidering whether Trump or Biden is worse for the cryptocurrency industry" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1896676208957591650) 2025-03-03T21:37Z 107.3K followers, 65.2K engagements "@motherpredicate Try @zashi_app if you havent to see how easy and beautiful a crypto wallet can be when it is designed mobile-first and UX-first Ill send you a little ZEC and a Shielded Welcome Message. /@erwanor" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1921958607626658022) 2025-05-12T16:00Z 107.3K followers, 15.5K engagements "And Hals Last Wish: https://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=175156.msg2677193#msg2677193 https://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=175156.msg2677193#msg2677193" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1929227945098277266) 2025-06-01T17:26Z 107.3K followers, 90.5K engagements "@CameronRuggles @AlekceiKozlov @moneropepe Oh and it comes with thorough security proofs of cryptographic soundness which is apparently the current blocker for FCMP: https://zips.z.cash/protocol/protocol.pdf https://zips.z.cash/protocol/protocol.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1929946315728785489) 2025-06-03T17:00Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "@vladcostea Jack Jack" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1951088041474531363) 2025-08-01T01:10Z 107.3K followers, 14.3K engagements "@juanaxyz00 VertCoin That was it. Originally by the serial scammers Gary Le and Poramin Insom who also made ZeroVert Moneta Zcoin (now Firo). Spagni ran a related scam (VertPay). Le later did Bitcoin Diamond. https://x.com/RkBench/status/1955272786559086905 @P3b7_ Giving me Vertcoin flashbacks https://x.com/RkBench/status/1955272786559086905 @P3b7_ Giving me Vertcoin flashbacks" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1955354455152701818) 2025-08-12T19:43Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@juanaxyz00 Spagni and Rhett Creighton then collaborated on "ZClassic" Creighton then did "Bitcoin Private" and then Creighton and Gary Le forming a kind of scammer super-group did "Bitcoin Diamond". Anyway. I need to let this go and get back to work" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1955361411615559815) 2025-08-12T20:11Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "Zcash is now the fundamental privacy layer for all of crypto. Theres just one thing you need to understand: Acquire and hold shielded Zcash *today* and youll get strong privacy with any chain when you spend tomorrow. But if you wait until you want to spend you wont. π¨ #Zcash just became cryptos privacy anchor βπ. With @zashi_app's shielded off-ramp it solves the fresh address (aka gasless withdrawal) problem Not just for ZEC but for any supported chain. This is big π https://t.co/ZiyGvkQJjw Whats the fresh address problem π¨ #Zcash just became cryptos privacy anchor βπ. With @zashi_app's" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1961481346511143024) 2025-08-29T17:29Z 107.3K followers, 56.7K engagements "Don't look at price charts. Look at market-cap-over-all-history charts. Sauce: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/zcash https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/zcash" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1975008184042733604) 2025-10-06T01:20Z 107.3K followers, 60.6K engagements "In my five-minute unscripted talk at the Network State conference I disclosed a private conversation between Hal Finney and me shortly before he died: https://www.youtube.com/live/j22fmkUFJl0si=z7REKbOxQ6L9SVN2&t=25687 https://www.youtube.com/live/j22fmkUFJl0si=z7REKbOxQ6L9SVN2&t=25687" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1976313962154307751) 2025-10-09T15:49Z 107.2K followers, 129.9K engagements "The best time to a plant a tree is [--] years ago. The second-best time is today" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1977150711273340962) 2025-10-11T23:13Z 107.3K followers, 26.9K engagements "Throwback to crypto bear market of [----]. This is my answer to the current theory being promoted by Cory Klippensten that Zcash's recent price rise is due to a "coordinated" pump. https://x.com/zooko/status/1066767821428781056 This bear market is going to drive a lot of companies and projects out of existence. That's not all bad (although a lot of it is bad). But market forces cannot drive Bitcoin Ethereum or Zcash out of existence because those are social movements not companies. . https://x.com/zooko/status/1066767821428781056 This bear market is going to drive a lot of companies and" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1980299822902235580) 2025-10-20T15:47Z 107.3K followers, 21.3K engagements "Love this post about Zcashs positive culture. Note that this post is from June before the Great Pump. Here's a non-technical reason I like Zcash. The early adopters (the people using it today) want it to win and they are overwhelmingly positive in how they convey that vision. That is also why in part you see it being integrated in so many places so quickly and why an asset Here's a non-technical reason I like Zcash. The early adopters (the people using it today) want it to win and they are overwhelmingly positive in how they convey that vision. That is also why in part you see it being" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1985064432297492556) 2025-11-02T19:20Z 107.3K followers, 60K engagements "*microphone tap*" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985373484676215186) 2025-11-03T15:48Z 107.3K followers, 99.9K engagements "Wow. Ok I dont know much about markets or crypto trading but to me this looks like evidence of something important happening: Sauce: https://www.coingecko.com/ https://www.coingecko.com/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985801453915799832) 2025-11-04T20:08Z 107.3K followers, 24.9K engagements "This is a good article https://t.co/ODhH6wgr7K https://t.co/ODhH6wgr7K" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1985934371409531120) 2025-11-05T04:57Z 107.3K followers, 30.7K engagements "@lonelysloth_sec @samczsun @code46ash I also wonder what would happen if the coin holders announced that theyre going to award $10m retroactively to the best security improvement of the next [--] months [--] months from now" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1987624612348489902) 2025-11-09T20:53Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "Jess is the newest barista at the local coffeehouse and the newest Zcasher Please send her Shielded Welcome Messages so she finds out that Zcashers are friendly. βΊ" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1989822190221758904) 2025-11-15T22:25Z 107.3K followers, 27.4K engagements "@quasa0 @TZhelios @teslaownersSV @grok And their belief will call into existence an AI Santa Claus that will arise to lead them" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1992759198632022102) 2025-11-24T00:56Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "@Zip227 Ok Ive thought about it some more. I have two concerns about ZSAs but to be clear neither of them is unfixable. I dont want to interfere with the builders working on it and the community who supports it so Im telling you this only to support your process" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2005318151895240710) 2025-12-28T16:41Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@Zip227 This is fixable either by making extra sure there are no bugs in it (and Im aware theyve done quite a lot of work on that already) or by putting it on the other side of a blast door a turnstile so that a bug in it couldnt allow counterfeiting of ZEC" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2005319326862397949) 2025-12-28T16:45Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@Zip227 My second concern is economic. The only economic reward to ZEC holders baked into the current design is transaction feeslike [------] ZEC per transaction. But the benefits to ZSA holders and the costs to ZEC holders are not proportional to the number of transactions they are" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2005320028531667203) 2025-12-28T16:48Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@Zip227 potentially proportional to the value held in ZSAs and the time it is held. This is fixable by adding a shielded hosting fee which remunerates ZEC holders for providing at their cost those benefits to ZSA holders" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2005320733472514248) 2025-12-28T16:51Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@Zip227 And Im not offering to help Im going to wish the ZSA-builders and supporters well and go back to working on NSM Crosslink and dynamic transaction fees. Hopefully Im wrong about these concerns or if I turn out to be right we can work out mitigations or fixes together" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2005321724406202496) 2025-12-28T16:55Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@Zip227 Your last request was to tag someone else. I pick Artkor/@ZcashRu. Hes actually taking responsibility for this stuff because he stood for election to ZCG. π" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2005322069651722519) 2025-12-28T16:56Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@zkDragon @Zip227 Yes (especially the price oracle bad part) but the shielded hosting fees could go into the Network Sustainability Mechanism (i.e. miners etc)" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2005455759870664781) 2025-12-29T01:48Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@0x_Colt @cz_binance Ive been a CZ fan ever since I love integrity. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2015/05/30/former-exec-hits-back-at-okcoin-amid-contract-dispute https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2015/05/30/former-exec-hits-back-at-okcoin-amid-contract-dispute" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2007853320887758915) 2026-01-04T16:35Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "@TheDesertLynx Atomic Wallet hired Least Authority to do a security audit and we found that user funds were at risk. We told them and they didnt fix it so we publicly warned their users. They threatened to sue us to take it down. That was [--] year before the big thefts from their users" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2011881404217639231) 2026-01-15T19:21Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "Hm value accrual to coin-holders hm Seems like maybe the crypto industry is starting to move beyond the Web2 playbook: capture the network effect of users as fast as possible figure out how to monetize them later. Zcashers take note Crypto really in an existential crisis now. Everything we thought would happen on blockchain is now happening but little if any of the value accrues to any stocks or tokens in our ecosystem. Fat protocol thesis is long dead BTC has nothing to do with ANY of the actual Crypto really in an existential crisis now. Everything we thought would happen on blockchain is" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2013290469183074701) 2026-01-19T16:40Z 107.3K followers, 18.1K engagements "Do you have opinions about questions like these You have two days to put your ZEC into a shielded wallet so you can vote with your ZEC https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-sentiment-polling-and-zip-submission-window/53766/20 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-sentiment-polling-and-zip-submission-window/53766/20" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2014807627348210008) 2026-01-23T21:09Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "The final form of the community sentiment polls for future Zcash upgrades https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-sentiment-polling-and-zip-submission-window/53766/41 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-sentiment-polling-and-zip-submission-window/53766/41" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2016269998877180164) 2026-01-27T22:00Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "FROST (Threshold Signatures) [---] By the Zcash Foundation. https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/frost-release-v3-0-0-rc-0/54506 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/frost-release-v3-0-0-rc-0/54506" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2017267053678186902) 2026-01-30T16:01Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements "That time that Michael Saylor almost started trying to invent Zcash live on stage in response to a question. I asked @saylor if @MicroStrategy has any plans to publish on-chain proof of reserves His answer will SHOCK you Its a bad idea. - Security Risk - Irrelevant without also having Big 4-audited liabilities Check it out π https://t.co/tIxUckgbEp I asked @saylor if @MicroStrategy has any plans to publish on-chain proof of reserves His answer will SHOCK you Its a bad idea. - Security Risk - Irrelevant without also having Big 4-audited liabilities Check it out π https://t.co/tIxUckgbEp" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2019824529242222937) 2026-02-06T17:24Z 107.3K followers, 16.8K engagements "omg even more permissionless shielded coinvotes This poll is going to be so great for Zcash as a demonstration of the size and diversity of the Zcash community. sauce: https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coinholder-protocol-feature-sentiment-poll/54487/35 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coinholder-protocol-feature-sentiment-poll/54487/35" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2020987399237722164) 2026-02-09T22:25Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements "Hey if you have an Android could you please go to and hash a file and post a screenshot of the BLAKE3 vs SHA256 benchmark results Thx https://lamb356.github.io/potential-guacamole/browser-test.html https://lamb356.github.io/potential-guacamole/browser-test.html" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2021078809672310931) 2026-02-10T04:28Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "prompt: develop a new programming language that is optimised for AIs to read and to write including a highly efficient implementation for all major machine architectures" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2021443227002585503) 2026-02-11T04:36Z 107.3K followers, 10.2K engagements "https://x.com/cboyack/status/2021647373571862952 https://t.co/4SMw7birVU https://x.com/cboyack/status/2021647373571862952 https://t.co/4SMw7birVU" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2021791568839995497) 2026-02-12T03:40Z 107.3K followers, 11.1K engagements "This was a great read. Thanks Theres one super simple but powerful factor that nobody mentioned: the only reason anyone suspected crabby-rathbun of being AI is that his web site disclosed that he is. A surreal interaction in a PR opened by an AI agent: https://t.co/ZKxEdvG8GK A surreal interaction in a PR opened by an AI agent: https://t.co/ZKxEdvG8GK" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2021956424386117800) 2026-02-12T14:35Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "@reallyill True" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2021964004034478424) 2026-02-12T15:05Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@unstoppablebyhs Interesting I haven't tried it yet but I looked at the web site and I'm curious why Unstoppable Wallet doesn't appear in the list of wallets you can connect to" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2021981331996266884) 2026-02-12T16:14Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements "@unstoppablebyhs Really appreciate the way yall are careful about security And also yeah Im excited to get access to the ZECπother-coins functionality soon (For as long as Apple allows me to keep using a self-custody wallet on this iPhone π)" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022006487774843273) 2026-02-12T17:54Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@unstoppablebyhs Btw it would a huge UX improvement if Unstoppable would figure out which token and which chain/L2 Im trying to send to without asking me to manually enter that information" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022006851672649813) 2026-02-12T17:56Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@samuelcook Can you screenshot or paste the metadata at the bottom of the results" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022524654145982960) 2026-02-14T04:13Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements "@TomZarebczan @lamb356_ But why [--] This iPhone [--] Pro allegedly came with [--] performance cores and [--] efficiency cores" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022525162306859307) 2026-02-14T04:15Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements "@lamb356_ @TomZarebczan When I try to set it to more cores the UI changes to say Unavailable:" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022525974353711511) 2026-02-14T04:19Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements "@DrunkTrumpy @Anonymist Yeah I think I get what youre saying. I think it is a very widespread theory. It may even be the dominant or standard theory in economics. Im just unconvinced. It seems to assume people cant plan ahead" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/2022793646551011514) 2026-02-14T22:02Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements "Madars says the idea that SNARKs are 10-years-away crypto is totally wrong. They were 10-years-away crypto [--] years ago. #ScalingBitcoin" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/673327267833974784) 2015-12-06T02:25Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements "Is it just me or is ZEC notably lacking in an army of shrill shills compared to many other coins large and small The Zcash community is actually quite large and active but it doesn't seem to engage in that sort of advocacy" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1001501264994226176) 2018-05-29T16:31Z 106.6K followers, [---] engagements "The ongoing spam attacks on twitter are a bummer. I'm finding myself spending more time in private Telegram groups and less time on Twitter" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1005191825403990016) 2018-06-08T20:56Z 97.1K followers, [--] engagements "Days since last sugar incident: 1" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1047291247226810369) 2018-10-03T01:04Z 97.1K followers, [--] engagements "a rainbow unicorn eating a dog" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1059240631342653447) 2018-11-05T00:27Z 106.7K followers, [--] engagements "@ercwl @Bitstamp @Cinnober Congratulations Eric And congratulations to Bitstamp and Cinnober" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1059471069613039617) 2018-11-05T15:42Z 104.9K followers, [--] engagements "Update My tweeps were right: McDonald's coffee _is_ just about as good as Starbuck's blonde americano and substantially cheaper" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1065368734460796929) 2018-11-21T22:17Z 97.3K followers, [--] engagements "It kind of depresses me how everyone is responding to the npm dependency injection by talking about reusing code less or vetting authors more (same thing) instead of talking about *making code reuse safe*. This is why I think @agoric is important" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1067204027983777793) 2018-11-26T23:50Z 106.6K followers, [---] engagements "This is a serious problem. Nakamoto Consensus is failing. Vertcoin (VTC) is currently being 51% attacked by Mark Nesbitt security engineer at Coinbase: https://link.medium.com/vXUSdT1KnS https://link.medium.com/vXUSdT1KnS" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1070056094007988225) 2018-12-04T20:43Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements "I don't know a single thing about this cybercoin called Aion except that they put out this detailed transparency report: But this all by itself speaks very well of them Every cybercoin should do likewise. https://aion.org/uploads/Aion_Foundation_Report_Web_Version.pdf https://aion.org/uploads/Aion_Foundation_Report_Web_Version.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1071529676886167553) 2018-12-08T22:19Z 105.8K followers, [---] engagements "@CryptoGainz1 Yes we can. That's called Zclassic if the chainfork point is before the genesis block i.e. it is an entirely separate blockchain. Alternately we could make a chainfork that branched off from the current state of the blockchain and the new branch could eliminate the FR" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1081810835423391745) 2019-01-06T07:12Z 104.6K followers, [--] engagements "Horizen's Latest Upgrade Fixes zk-SNARKS https://blog.zencash.com/shielded-transactions-and-zk-snarks/ https://blog.zencash.com/shielded-transactions-and-zk-snarks/" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1092973054219694080) 2019-02-06T02:27Z 102.9K followers, [--] engagements "@arjunblj If Freicoin is evidence that demurrage is bad is Tenebrix evidence that disinflationary monetary base is bad" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1098591530162491392) 2019-02-21T14:33Z 104.7K followers, [--] engagements "@arjunblj P.S. I don't see how Freicoin's demurrage is any different from high-early-inflation like Bitcoin Litecoin and Zcash. (Other than the way humans look at the nominal value of a unit and not the real value.)" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1098601905029332992) 2019-02-21T15:14Z 104.7K followers, [--] engagements "@nic__carter "Scary Protocol Upgrade". The Electric Coin Company stated that the next SPU (Scary Protocol Upgrade) will activate on October [--] 2019" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1104840972695789568) 2019-03-10T20:26Z 97.1K followers, [--] engagements "The tyranny of ideasby Nadia Eghbal: https://nadiaeghbal.com/ideas https://nadiaeghbal.com/ideas" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1126588365074075648) 2019-05-09T20:42Z 97.1K followers, [--] engagements "Fascinating Tezos has performed their full on-chain governance process: Alsothe article mentionsthey are working on implementing Zcash Sapling Also it mentions that turn-out for on-chain governance in other systems is typically 57% of eligible coins. https://medium.com/tocqueville-group/reflecting-on-athens-the-first-self-amendment-of-tezos-4791ab3b1de1 https://medium.com/tocqueville-group/reflecting-on-athens-the-first-self-amendment-of-tezos-4791ab3b1de1" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1137291179358269440) 2019-06-08T09:32Z 99.3K followers, [---] engagements "@CryptoRayon No Ycash is a separate project launched by Howard Loo and @YcashFoundation. The developers of Zcash (which include @ZcashFoundation @ElectricCoinCo @ParityTech and others) had nothing to do with the launch of Ycash" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1141050217619263488) 2019-06-18T18:29Z 107.2K followers, [--] engagements "The Zeal Battles the Troll Bear" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1221573951714840576) 2020-01-26T23:21Z 105.5K followers, [---] engagements "Life is pain highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1221999668210491392) 2020-01-28T03:33Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements "Well this is freakin' awesome. How to go from $ETH to shielded $ZEC without exchanges or KYC. https://t.co/vQPQwDxeWM How to go from $ETH to shielded $ZEC without exchanges or KYC. https://t.co/vQPQwDxeWM" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1283861008143003649) 2020-07-16T20:28Z 107K followers, [---] engagements "@_aristarchus_ @coinsnkeks @zcashvr @str4d You know how that last one wrapped ZEC on Ethereum is currently live with Ren right https://x.com/zooko/status/1289667834411245570 @Walterelprofe @BenDiFrancesco @VitalikButerin There are positive tradeoffs here too. You can currently shift between ZEC on the Zcash mainnet and ERC20 RenZEC on the Ethereum mainnet No KYC no central middleman. This is awesome and everyone should try it right now with money you can afford to lose. https://t.co/U3sDa8fGzf https://x.com/zooko/status/1289667834411245570 @Walterelprofe @BenDiFrancesco @VitalikButerin There" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1294498047318089729) 2020-08-15T04:55Z 104.6K followers, [--] engagements "@jswihart @_aristarchus_ @coinsnkeks @zcashvr @str4d FWIW I disagree. You *do* get substantial privacy from using wrapped ZEC on Ethereum because the privacy comes from where your collateral is stored (ZEC in the shielded pool on Zcash) more than from where you are transacting (erc20 token in the clear on Ethereum)" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1294639012611624963) 2020-08-15T14:16Z 104.6K followers, [--] engagements "@jswihart @_aristarchus_ @coinsnkeks @zcashvr @str4d HT @ZbayApp for a good conversation about this topic yesterday which has reminded me of the critical importance of network-level privacy" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1294651019079499783) 2020-08-15T15:03Z 94.9K followers, [--] engagements "Thank god for Messari Feed explaining this stuff because I would never have had time to learn what happened any other way. The Sushi https://messari.io/article/the-sushi-chronicles https://messari.io/article/the-sushi-chronicles" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1305196708532371456) 2020-09-13T17:28Z 95.9K followers, [--] engagements "@ViliLe I'm not sure why I would want a payment mechanism to be subject to democratic control" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/133232981547556864) 2011-11-06T17:23Z 97K followers, [--] engagements "@ViliLe I think traceability of transactions is separate from control over the money supply" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/133241713639690240) 2011-11-06T17:57Z 97.5K followers, [--] engagements "@ViliLe I know what you mean about [---] chars. It has been great practicing conciseness but I'm getting tired of the limitation" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/133243141733089281) 2011-11-06T18:03Z 97K followers, [--] engagements "@ViliLe Also my introduction of the term 'traceability' was probably confused too because Bitcoin is actually extremely traceable" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/133243772619337728) 2011-11-06T18:06Z 97K followers, [--] engagements "@ViliLe Damn this medium Although to be fair you'd probably give me [--] chars if we were using a medium that allowed infinite chars" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/133301072654635009) 2011-11-06T21:53Z 97K followers, [--] engagements "How to Stake & Earn REN renBTC and renZEC on Bancor v2.1 by @Bancor https://blog.bancor.network/how-to-stake-earn-ren-renbtc-and-renzec-on-bancor-v2-1-d493b31c0082 https://blog.bancor.network/how-to-stake-earn-ren-renbtc-and-renzec-on-bancor-v2-1-d493b31c0082" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1337092276376354816) 2020-12-10T17:50Z 107K followers, [--] engagements "@AAAinsley cows aren't bad for the planet ainsley" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1359649810714828803) 2021-02-10T23:45Z 97.1K followers, [--] engagements "π https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/bootstrapping-liquidity-for-renzec-on-binance-smart-chain/38849 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/bootstrapping-liquidity-for-renzec-on-binance-smart-chain/38849" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1370179452483764229) 2021-03-12T01:06Z 106.2K followers, [--] engagements "Proud to welcome Christina Garman to our Board of Directors. https://electriccoin.co/blog/garman-joins-ecc-board-of-directors/ https://electriccoin.co/blog/garman-joins-ecc-board-of-directors/" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1372651701556150274) 2021-03-18T20:50Z 106.7K followers, [--] engagements "People on Crypto Twitter really underestimate the breadth and the conviction of the ZEC Fanatics (i.e. the We Will Never Sell Zodlers including me). In some social circles it is "uncool" to admit that you love Zcash but in fact we are legion and we're never going to stop" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1405981051504140289) 2021-06-18T20:09Z 106.3K followers, [---] engagements "@jiminycrypt @zcash Maybe this https://blog.bancor.network/how-to-stake-earn-ren-renbtc-and-renzec-on-bancor-v2-1-d493b31c0082 https://blog.bancor.network/how-to-stake-earn-ren-renbtc-and-renzec-on-bancor-v2-1-d493b31c0082" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1409129252922945542) 2021-06-27T12:39Z 100.9K followers, [--] engagements "@cryptocopernici @least_nathan Im sure it is possible. Also you can currently get Zcash via actual Uniswap on Ethereum and then move it through the RenZEC or WZEC bridge onto the Zcash blockchain" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1411478679998197762) 2021-07-04T00:15Z 107K followers, [--] engagements "@aparnalocked Give not that which is holy unto the dogs neither cast ye your pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1426266373248925699) 2021-08-13T19:36Z 104.5K followers, [--] engagements "Hey guys how about about a ZEC DAO https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/truly-pseudonymous-contributors-zomg/39992 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/truly-pseudonymous-contributors-zomg/39992" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1434327398418313220) 2021-09-05T01:27Z 104.8K followers, [--] engagements "@invincibleXhand Yeah I dont recommend waiting" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1434335500555341825) 2021-09-05T02:00Z 106.2K followers, [--] engagements "Bounty to write an Ethereum smart contract to manage some Zcash. The first version they are asking for sounds extremely simple like half an hour of work Get in there :-) https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/z-zomg-bounty-ethereum-smart-contract/40017 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/z-zomg-bounty-ethereum-smart-contract/40017" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1435234065460850688) 2021-09-07T13:30Z 106K followers, [--] engagements "There will be a ZEC-holder Poll September [--] Anybody who owns ZEC can participate entirely anonymously through the encrypted blockchain and the number of "votes" (polling points) you get will be equal to the number of ZEC coins you hold when you vote. https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coin-holder-polling-next-steps/40060 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coin-holder-polling-next-steps/40060" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1436348668207112193) 2021-09-10T15:19Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements "@patio11 In all sincerity to me owning Zcash (ZEC) is opting out of a corrupt failing political system. I would feel gross trying to opt back in. Also if Im right maybe this will turn out to have been a good investment decision someday. βΊ" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1437511129954234369) 2021-09-13T20:18Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements "@patio11 Ive seen you puzzling over wtf with all this crypto craziness and in all sincerity I think this might be a key. Seeing my fiat (shitcoin) bank account balance go up makes me feel bad emotionally. Seeing the number of ZEC coins I own go up makes me feel good" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1437514560718741513) 2021-09-13T20:32Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements "@CryptoTweetie People sometimes think transparent functionality (RenZEC) + Shielded storage and transfer (ZEC) equals transparent but I kind of think it equals private" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1443394093523083266) 2021-09-30T01:55Z 106.2K followers, [--] engagements "@leoyoung0 First of all such decisions are not up to @ElectricCoinCo. We make scientific discoveries create cutting-edge technology and write software that implements it. Whether Zcash itself changes is determined by" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1456978151335239691) 2021-11-06T13:33Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements "@leoyoung0 @ElectricCoinCo whether the Zcash community chooses to run that software and ultimately whether people around the world choose to accept and value the ZEC coins the software enables. https://electriccoin.co/blog/should-zcash-switch-from-proof-of-work-to-proof-of-stake/ https://electriccoin.co/blog/should-zcash-switch-from-proof-of-work-to-proof-of-stake/" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1456978184277270531) 2021-11-06T13:34Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements "@MigueliCarlos No Im busy executing Electric Coin Cos roadmap and supporting @agoric and @LeastAuthority. Fortunately there are others in the Zcash ecosystem doing other things. https://electriccoin.co/blog/ecc-roadmap-calls-for-focus-on-wallet-proof-of-stake-and-interoperability/ https://electriccoin.co/blog/ecc-roadmap-calls-for-focus-on-wallet-proof-of-stake-and-interoperability/" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1476223563682230274) 2021-12-29T16:08Z 107K followers, [--] engagements "Cryptocurrencies: BTC ETH ZEC BLD ATOM SOL AVAX BAT FIL XTZ MATIC etc etc Shitcoins: USD CNY EUR GBP TRY JPY VED RUB IRR etc etc" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1482842169677385745) 2022-01-16T22:28Z 107K followers, [---] engagements "People have just woken up to the necessity and urgency of politically-neutral money. People think of Bitcoin but due to its transparent architecture Bitcoin cannot be that. It cant protect the people from the powerful. Zcash however already does. https://z.cash https://z.cash" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1495911556059738124) 2022-02-22T00:01Z 107K followers, [---] engagements "@fattygustave @boscolochris @balajis @zcash These governments stamps of approval/disapproval cannot be erased or washed off of the coins thanks again to Bitcoins fundamental technical limitations" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1499476232408219659) 2022-03-03T20:06Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements "@fattygustave @boscolochris @balajis @zcash Now Zcash cannot have this done to it Zcashs fundamental technical architecture means that no third party can put stamps on your coins. It is mathematically impossible to do that to ZEC coins. So owners of ZEC have real effective sovereignty over their own asset" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1499476924099280904) 2022-03-03T20:08Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements "This technology fulfills one of Satoshis last one of the last wishes of my old friend whom I miss Hal https://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=175156.msg2677193#msg2677193 https://x.com/zooko/status/1499478874375163904 If a solution was found a much better easier more convenient implementation of Bitcoin would be possible.Satoshi Nakamoto August 2010: https://t.co/suYdZUCb9w Four months later Satoshi vanished from the internet. Three years after that a solution was found. #zcash https://t.co/xFgz7sGMAp https://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=175156.msg2677193#msg2677193" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1501300282755411972) 2022-03-08T20:54Z 106.1K followers, [---] engagements "The resulting politically-neutral money which is now available to everyone on the planet is Zcash. To try it for yourself download a Zcash Shielded Wallet from It takes only a few minutes to give it a spin. https://z.cash/wallets https://z.cash/wallets" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1501300284617678848) 2022-03-08T20:54Z 106.1K followers, [---] engagements "@Azzzuh @GranataLLC Yes people who hold ZEC today are contributing to the Dev Fund today. The ZEC coins in the Dev Fund are valuable only because of the ZEC holders. People who hold BTC and not ZEC today are not contributing in that way. Does that make sense" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1512836196950417410) 2022-04-09T16:53Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements "@bitcoinomico what cat" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1517683204815134722) 2022-04-23T01:54Z 104.5K followers, [--] engagements "@jgarzik @jp_koning @JaEsf @MattAhlborg @VitalikButerin This is why attempts to anonymize your crypto by moving it through something typically fail. That action that you take is itself emitting information and the haystack of other information that youre trying to hide in is generously on the order of 232" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1520806218058518530) 2022-05-01T16:43Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements "@jgarzik @jp_koning @JaEsf @MattAhlborg @VitalikButerin On the other hand ZEC coins that are currently sitting at rest in the Zcash Shielded Pool emit zero information (thats the zero in zero knowledge proof) about their origin when they move. Heres such a transaction. No information about the origin: https://zcashblockexplorer.com/transactions/dd75b566676023116d7dd0ed49b3b721a22d7cac083daa87dc669128dc80c8a1 https://zcashblockexplorer.com/transactions/dd75b566676023116d7dd0ed49b3b721a22d7cac083daa87dc669128dc80c8a1" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1520807493890314240) 2022-05-01T16:48Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements "@miroyato Yes. There are a couple of early bridges currently operating RenZEC and WZEC. Better ones are possible" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1538261361116925952) 2022-06-18T20:44Z 106.2K followers, [--] engagements "It's not about privacy. It's about freedom. https://x.com/ZecHub/status/1558102145668349953 https://x.com/ZecHub/status/1558102145668349953" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1558155145245954048) 2022-08-12T18:15Z 107.1K followers, [---] engagements "@rasmuky @0xfoobar Thats where Im leaning too" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1573209539163426820) 2022-09-23T07:15Z 94.9K followers, [--] engagements "@livemarat @millercwl Yeah Doing is believing Seeing is believing. Whenever I find myself trying to explain Zcash to someone I stop myself and ask them to download a Shielded Zcash Wallet. Five minutes later (almost never longer than that) theyve used Shielded Zcash for themselves" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1643773579656589314) 2023-04-06T00:32Z 94.9K followers, [---] engagements "@Beyond_Bitcoin A Zeal of Zebras" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1648168214453698561) 2023-04-18T03:34Z 98.9K followers, [---] engagements "Zcash is a live example of this There's a lot of code in Zcash implementing network protocols consensus rules user/app interfaces etc. All of that code might have bugs" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1672694939644313601) 2023-06-24T19:55Z 105.5K followers, [---] engagements "If there are bugs in that code then attackers could potentially leverage those bugs to do different kinds of damage but one thing they couldn't do is *counterfeit ZEC coins* because *that* function is additionally protected by a zero-knowledge proof" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1672694941259055105) 2023-06-24T19:55Z 105.5K followers, [---] engagements "Every shielded Zcash transaction is required to come with a zero-knowledge proof that the transaction is valid i.e. that the sender is the one and only owner of the coins and that the coins are pre-existing coins i.e. that they are not counterfeited out of thin air" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1672694942836092929) 2023-06-24T19:55Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements "Every Zcash miner and full node runs the zero-knowledge-proof verifier on every transaction before accepting it so in order to counterfeit ZEC coins an attacker would have to defeat the ZKP verifier itself" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1672694944518098948) 2023-06-24T19:55Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements "@aiyadt @CruiseZodler @mikebelshe Agree. Seems to me that a simple concept is: your exchange has full public transparency of its ZEC coins which is good and you choose a Shielded By Default wallet and you get the best possible on-chain privacy without learning or doing anything else. What do you think" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1675567253545164806) 2023-07-02T18:08Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements "@CruiseZodler @In4Crypto @iansagstette I wish Zclassic and ARRR were better so I could recommend them to people who want (respectively) no-dev-fund and no-transparent-addresses" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1700278827576955148) 2023-09-08T22:43Z 94.8K followers, [---] engagements "@sachayve Agoric's obj-cap paradigm eliminates several important vuln classes starting with re-entrancy" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1720477735120736506) 2023-11-03T16:27Z 106.2K followers, [---] engagements "Interesting post about the UX problems in attempting to build a self-custody wallet on top of the Lightning Protocol. Reading this post reaffirms my belief that you need to do things in the other order: design the UX first and only then design the core protocol to fit the UX. Must read written by a guy who's been in the mud implementing something that people actually use. Well written @benthecarman. Must read written by a guy who's been in the mud implementing something that people actually use. Well written @benthecarman" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1743866589806530793) 2024-01-07T05:26Z 106.2K followers, 12.6K engagements "@CONFnoise Hm you have the new signal user ID feature right Can you deliver a message to $person over some channel that doesnt disclose your phone number and include your Signal User ID in that message" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1772078701770895405) 2024-03-25T01:51Z 95.5K followers, [--] engagements "Hm Im paying $6 or $7 per pound for ground beef nowadays (Safeway and Whole Paycheck Foods respectively). Wasnt ground beef just $3.50 a pound approximately yesterday or am I just getting old" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1773065898913374423) 2024-03-27T19:13Z 107K followers, [----] engagements "@ialmost11 @callebtc @zashi_app [--]. Some valid reasons too many topics to go into in this tweet [--]. Number Go Down therefore people hate it. [--]. Eight years of constant lies misinformation calculated disinformation and negative narratives both from adversaries and from apparently well-intentioned zcashers" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1775255049058300054) 2024-04-02T20:12Z 99.3K followers, [----] engagements "@ialmost11 @callebtc @zashi_app Oh and I forgot to mention the calculated attacks apparently intended to harm Zcash over the years such as the ZClassic fork (portrayed as an open source project but later revealed to have been designed as an attempt to harm Zcashers) and the spam attack" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1775255574256504870) 2024-04-02T20:14Z 99.5K followers, [---] engagements "Just landed back in good old USA from a visit to Dubai. Working on improving Zcashthe completely decentralized self-sovereign currency. There are a lot of other people improving Zcash too known and unknown. Because privacy is normal and is necessary for a healthy society" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1783279917503045852) 2024-04-24T23:40Z 103.5K followers, 20.8K engagements "Dear Ethereum community: Limitations of the EVM currently prevent users from verifying a proof in a *trustless* mathematical verifiable way. Instead it requires normal users to depend on a group of elite insiders. This is inconsistent with your ethos. On our trusted setup and why it's needed: Our proof system doesn't require a trusted setup but in order to verify it inexpensively on Ethereum we wrap it with a Groth16 proof which is less expensive to verify. So it's the Groth16 system that requires a trusted setup. On our trusted setup and why it's needed: Our proof system doesn't require a" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1787966362817548751) 2024-05-07T22:02Z 104.5K followers, 14.3K engagements "Purely on-chain fully anonymous coin-weighted voting in Zcash. First experiment now in progress Join in https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coin-weighted-poll/47964/26 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coin-weighted-poll/47964/26" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1803302004162261167) 2024-06-19T05:41Z 101.1K followers, 23K engagements "Today is the last day to move your ZEC coins into the Orchard shielded pool so that you can anonymously participate in the upcoming Shielded Petition Coinholder Poll Update: There is one more day to move some ZEC to the Orchard pool. The registration period has been extended until block [-------] on Friday June 28th so that more people can participate. More info here: https://t.co/3ghAOOsoRJ Coinholder Poll Update: There is one more day to move some ZEC to the Orchard pool. The registration period has been extended until block [-------] on Friday June 28th so that more people can participate." [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1806415609284190675) 2024-06-27T19:53Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements "Or acquire some ZEC coins and move them into Orchard pool. To move coins into the Orchard pool all you need to do is send them to a Shielded By Default wallet like Ywallet or Zashi. π" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1806415650098946555) 2024-06-27T19:53Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements "@valardragon Also synchronous composition means interleaving hazards (including re-entrancy hazards). Study Part III of @marksammillers thesis Robust Composition /cc @VitalikButerin @adrianbrink @cwgoes @aeyakovenko https://papers.agoric.com/assets/pdf/papers/robust-composition.pdf https://papers.agoric.com/assets/pdf/papers/robust-composition.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1810034862616928339) 2024-07-07T19:35Z 94.7K followers, [----] engagements "@valkenburgh Historical footnote: around [----] Andrew @socrates1024 Miller and I discussed the possibility of defining Zcash to have [---] total ZEC coins in existence at all times. To avoid the perennial confusion of real value with nominal value" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1813919939620978972) 2024-07-18T12:53Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements "@valkenburgh @socrates1024 If a miner created [-------] new ZEC coins the wallets of a million users would update to show that they each now had [-------------] less ZEC" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1813920209406693855) 2024-07-18T12:54Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements "The distribution of ZEC coins is one of Zcashs underrated strengths and hard to replicate. The initial scarcity of ZEC is an argument in favor of rather than against the network. The largest holders of ZEC are those who lost money for years accumulating a technology they wholeheartedly believed in because they had the courage to envision a better future. The initial scarcity of ZEC is an argument in favor of rather than against the network. The largest holders of ZEC are those who lost money for years accumulating a technology they wholeheartedly believed in because they had the courage to" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1816159313154457678) 2024-07-24T17:11Z 106.9K followers, 14K engagements "Coin-holder petition for the final decision about what happens after the Zcash Dev Fund sunsets itself If you had any ZEC coins in Ywallet on July [--] (and those coins had been moved after June 13) they are eligible Deadline is July [--] https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coin-weighted-poll/47964/175 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coin-weighted-poll/47964/175" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1816212365140189504) 2024-07-24T20:42Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements "Really enjoying this debate about Namadas intention to make the complete supply of tokens transferable at launch (ie no lock-ups/vesting). I like it It is simple easy for people to understand and increases the amount of information revealed to the public by the market. @zachxbt @namada The system of vesting lockups as practiced today is a scam. It impairs the freedom of market participants manipulates the price signal and screws the public. Questioning the vesting orthodoxy is not a popular position but it is mine. Full rationale: https://t.co/jaD3A5ekzw @zachxbt @namada The system of vesting" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1819945916364681395) 2024-08-04T03:58Z 103.3K followers, 13.9K engagements "(Financial disclosure: they told me that their recommendations for the Namada genesis block will include a Retroactive Public Goods Funding gift of tokens to me personally I dont know how much.)" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1819945918117929005) 2024-08-04T03:58Z 103.3K followers, [---] engagements "Even more importantly the idea of Zcash has spread: that it is possible for people to have control over their money and that this is good for society" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1821978480122458288) 2024-08-09T18:34Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements "*Its time to upgrade Zcash to (hybrid) Proof-of-Stake* The creation and distribution of ZEC coins by the Proof-of-Work mining algorithm was a necessary first step. It allowed individuals to acquire ZEC when they didnt have any and couldnt acquire it any other way" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1821978484983644253) 2024-08-09T18:34Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements "At the same time the ongoing creation of new ZEC over these first eight years has put downward pressure on the price of ZEC. (A similar thing happened to Zcashs predecessor Bitcoin during its first eight years.)" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1821978497927279058) 2024-08-09T18:34Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements "Zcashs coin-creation schedule follows Bitcoins. Every four years the rate of new coin creation is halved ensuring that only [--] million ZEC coins will eventually exist. When the second Zcash halving occurs this November three quarters of all ZEC will have been created" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1821978502075445419) 2024-08-09T18:35Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements "@matty_dot_thor Friendly Forks As long as it is a chain-fork like Ycash which honors the hodlers by preserving their ownership of their coins I support it https://electriccoin.co/blog/future-friendly-fork/ https://electriccoin.co/blog/future-friendly-fork/" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1823062506199539735) 2024-08-12T18:22Z 106.2K followers, [----] engagements "@matty_dot_thor On the other hand if it is a source-code-fork like ZClassic-ZEN-HoriZEN which zeroes out the current holders in order to allocate tokens to someone else I dont. I wish people didnt use the word fork to describe both things. π" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1823062893040201983) 2024-08-12T18:23Z 106.2K followers, [---] engagements "@XMRfuture @pfiifeflutscher @In4Crypto @AaronRDay But in practice nobody can actually discriminate among ZEC coins because their owner can unilaterally and without anyone elses permission shield them at any time" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1827496537116549242) 2024-08-25T00:01Z 105.5K followers, [---] engagements "Sigh. Saw three different of my dead friends being used as symbols today. I guess its both bad (because its inevitably inaccurate) and good (because its remembering and honoring them and we can learn something) but it mostly just makes me sad" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1844113862163038372) 2024-10-09T20:33Z 97.2K followers, [----] engagements "@debt_watch @CruiseZodler @jswihart @nate_zec Good job learning from reality by looking at a block explorer" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1848075558196019574) 2024-10-20T18:55Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements "@debt_watch @CruiseZodler @jswihart @nate_zec Hm Im trying to figure out my answer to your question. One thing is *all* ZEC coins came out of the shielded pool at some point in the past. So saying Youre not allowed to accept ZEC coins that were shielded. is really just the same as Youre not allowed to accept ZEC" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1848076005287616568) 2024-10-20T18:57Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements "@nikzh @TheDesertLynx If you download a Shielded By Default wallet and put some ZEC into it then youll see that your ZEC is in a far greater anonymity set than is possible with Monero today. By default. https://z.cash/ecosystem/wallets=#tag-wallets https://z.cash/ecosystem/wallets=#tag-wallets" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1849964322098700424) 2024-10-26T00:00Z 107K followers, [---] engagements "My recommendations:" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1866572414785565076) 2024-12-10T19:55Z 97.3K followers, [----] engagements "Update: add THORChain/RUNE to the long list of major projects that are trying to revamp their money-supply/tokenomics. https://x.com/THORChain/status/1889319000158462093 THORChain nodes voted to remove block rewards π₯ From [-----] $RUNE per day emitted from the Reserve down to [--] per day eliminating inflation completely 100% of income is now from swap fees with a deflationary burn of 5% system income https://t.co/A3eDAziPnj https://x.com/THORChain/status/1889319000158462093 THORChain nodes voted to remove block rewards π₯ From [-----] $RUNE per day emitted from the Reserve down to [--] per day" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1889415659219726660) 2025-02-11T20:46Z 89.1K followers, [----] engagements "@NEARProtocol @ilblackdragon @Zcash Hey Illia I was watching the recording of our conversation (because I have a rule never to tweet things unless I'm willing to sit through them entirely myself π) and I realized that I've totally overlooked the potential of NEAR chain signatures controlling *shielded* Zcash" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1889816540096373206) 2025-02-12T23:19Z 89.1K followers, [----] engagements "@ilblackdragon @NEARProtocol @Zcash Yeah ZSAs are the secure solution to "I want to add privacy to my Bitcoin". You get a "zBTC" token on Zcash backed by your Bitcoin and you *store* your zBTC at rest thus gaining actual privacy" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1889839946426642556) 2025-02-13T00:52Z 107K followers, [---] engagements "@ilblackdragon @NEARProtocol @Zcash Re other use cases for agent-controlled shielded Zcash: what about a bot that does trading for you An arbitrage bot One that gives out Zcash to people whose tweets it saw on Twitter" [X Link](https://x.com/zooko/status/1889842560258191791) 2025-02-13T01:02Z 89.1K followers, [---] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@zooko zookoπ‘π¦π¦π¦ β©zookoπ‘π¦π¦π¦ β© posts on X about zcash, bitcoin, zec, money the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
Social category influence cryptocurrencies #1970 finance #4696 technology brands stocks fashion brands social networks exchanges countries celebrities currencies
Social topic influence zcash #12, bitcoin, zec, money #1259, ethereum, blockchain, hm, coinbase, coins, if you
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @zcash @vitalikbuterin @thedesertlynx @in4crypto @zashiapp @natezec @zerodartz @electriccoinco @0xmert @aquietinvestor @jswihart @zecrimoni @thevladcostea @zcashfoundation @zcashmedia @nanogptcom @cruisezodler @aeyakovenko @zksquirrel @robustus
Top assets mentioned Zcash (ZEC) Bitcoin (BTC) Ethereum (ETH) Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN) Monero (XMR) Solana (SOL) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) renZEC (RENZEC) WalletConnect Token (WCT) Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (CMG) ZClassic (ZCL) Litecoin (LTC) zkSync (ZK) QuantumCore (QBS)
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"https://www.reddit.com/r/zec/comments/moj2kr/my_bull_case_for_zec_follow_the_brains_follow_the https://www.reddit.com/r/zec/comments/moj2kr/my_bull_case_for_zec_follow_the_brains_follow_the"
X Link 2021-04-11T15:50Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements
"These are my latest thoughts about Zcash. What it is how it is changing the course of history and how my views on Zcash differ greatly from the conventional wisdom: Thanks @tomwaltonpocock and @RaoulGMI https://youtu.be/ibA_4kwd_YI https://youtu.be/ibA_4kwd_YI"
X Link 2021-06-28T19:40Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Okay okay I'll spell it out: Zcash is uniquely positioned by having both (a) institutional acceptance (the above two examples are merely examples of a much larger pattern) and (b) cryptographic-strength on-chain privacy"
X Link 2021-12-15T18:38Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@PesceDory @jswihart I support every group that wants to cooperate with each other in their own way having their own chain-fork of Zcash. I love Ycash although I dont actually use it. If somebody wants to make the no t-addresses Friendly Fork of Zcash Im all for it. https://electriccoin.co/blog/future-friendly-fork/ https://electriccoin.co/blog/future-friendly-fork/"
X Link 2024-07-18T19:31Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@PesceDory @jswihart P.S. But dont confuse *chain-forks like Ycash which are Friendly because they rewarded every current holder of ZEC with their newly created coins with source-code-forks such as ZClassic Horizen etc etc which stiffed the original ZEC holders. Those are Unfriendly Forks"
X Link 2024-07-18T19:34Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@Zip227 Ok to be clear either of those suggested changes would be a huge engineering effort and introduce huge delays and complexity and risks so I dont say it lightly"
X Link 2025-12-28T16:53Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements
"by @BradyDale https://www.frontstageexit.com/p/backstage-pass-nobody-told-you-so https://www.frontstageexit.com/p/backstage-pass-nobody-told-you-so"
X Link 2026-01-02T17:16Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Principles like these are always how it starts. In the coming weeks we plan to start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers. Were sharing our principles early on how well approach adsguided by putting user trust and transparency first as we work to make AI accessible to everyone. What matters most: - Responses in https://t.co/3UQJsdriYR In the coming weeks we plan to start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers. Were sharing our principles early on how well approach adsguided by putting user trust and transparency first as we work to make AI accessible to everyone. What matters most: -"
X Link 2026-01-16T21:31Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This gives me a lot of optimism for Zcash: seeing this post on the Zcash Forum from Taylor Hornby and then switching to Twitter and seeing this post from Sacha St Leger: https://x.com/sacha/status/2012863215718318385 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/a-message-from-the-bootstrap-board/54329/17 zcash is bigger than zashi the chips will fall where they fall but if we couldn't survive zashi being destroyed/compromised/taken down we weren't going to succeed anyway as long as we preserve and encourage a culture of integrity and trust all will be fine. this is by far"
X Link 2026-01-18T18:41Z 107.2K followers, 13.9K engagements
"This is super cool It can generate succinct proofs of the history of the Zcash blockchain Thanks Abdel and other Starkies Zm. Ok we did it. Zoro (Zcash ZK client) hits a major milestone: we can prove the header chain and generate self-sufficient SPV proofs. Why is this a big deal Were compressing Zcash history with STARKs so you can verify the entire Zcash header chain in milliseconds instead https://t.co/tHAWv0ROcs Zm. Ok we did it. Zoro (Zcash ZK client) hits a major milestone: we can prove the header chain and generate self-sufficient SPV proofs. Why is this a big deal Were compressing"
X Link 2026-01-19T15:48Z 107.2K followers, 10.3K engagements
"@yanivgraph @NTmoney Zcash"
X Link 2026-01-27T20:33Z 107.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@JaEsf Oh hey I don't even know if you were right or wrong about this. I guess the El Salvador Bitcoin / Lightning Network experiment is still intact Haven't heard much about it recently"
X Link 2026-01-27T21:16Z 107.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@RamXBT @sacha @rabizzzy I'm mostly just interested in this because (a) "vote on values but bet on beliefs" is an awesome idea and (b) sacha seems to be interested in metadao so that's positive"
X Link 2026-01-27T21:52Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Wow this is so cool I hope they can figure out how to use this huge pool of money to effectively support and improve Ethereum's security for many many years. While looking through old contracts I found a post from [----] saying unclaimed TheDAO funds would be used for Ethereum security. Nearly ten years later I made the proposal to put these funds to use and I'm proud to say that [-----] ETH will be used to fund Ethereum security While looking through old contracts I found a post from [----] saying unclaimed TheDAO funds would be used for Ethereum security. Nearly ten years later I made the"
X Link 2026-01-29T19:16Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@roommatemusing According to @grok no:"
X Link 2026-01-31T05:00Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements
"It just delights me that it is [----] and we're still making big progress on information-theory tools: compression error-correction cryptography etc"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:44Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Reading all of the web pages about Fil-C (thanks to the Shielded Labs engineers for telling/reminding me about it). Super exciting stuff I love it. It's a general-purpose highly-compatible comprehensive memory-safety hack for C/C++. https://fil-c.org/ https://fil-c.org/"
X Link 2026-02-14T16:49Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@lonelysloth_sec @samczsun @code46ash To be clear I personally wield no special authority over any of this except for my anonymous onchain coin voting so I feel free to throw out wild speculations like this on twitter to see if they spark good ideas"
X Link 2025-11-09T20:54Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@TomZarebczan @lamb356_ Whoo-hoo I upgraded to iOS [----] and check this shit out Numthreads 1"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:11Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"I noticed this detail of Fil's engineering that I love. It resonates with how we work at Shielded Labs (advancing the sustainability security and scalability of Zcash). To discover great designs it really helps to mark off entire areas of the design space as Non-Goals"
X Link 2026-02-14T16:49Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@dwillems42 @PelicanInvasion @NanoGPTcom"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:31Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements
"I unironically think that in the year let's say in [----]. That in the year [----] that the total value (or "market cap") of [--] million ZEC could be worth more than the total value in the year [----] of all money goods assets and resources on Earth. This. This"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:39Z 107.3K followers, 36.6K engagements
"@gwern @ForbesTech At least that's what's happened to a whole lot of other people"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:46Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@BenDiFrancesco @VitalikButerin Not sure if you're asking for my opinion but: Ren (RenBTC and RenZEC) Keep (tBTC) and Kyber/Bitgo (WBTC) all have good tradeoffs and should keep pushing forward. And they should launch tZEC and WZEC as soon as possible βΊ"
X Link 2020-08-01T19:41Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@r1csqap @reddevinc Your privacy comes for the fact that you started with ZEC in your self-sovereign shielded wallet. Thats all you need (in this simple example)"
X Link 2025-09-27T21:41Z 107.3K followers, 36.8K engagements
"For example the way the government of Canada under Justin Trudeau seized the Bitcoin donations that people from around the world made to the Canadian Trucker protestors. That's not an aberration that's the inevitable consequence of mandatory transparency"
X Link 2025-10-29T18:06Z 107.3K followers, 37.3K engagements
"@hashdag π«‘ (BTW I've always loved your PoW DAG ideas as you know and I kind of try to keep a little awareness of current Kaspa development mostly just by reading twitter but of course I'm too focused on Crosslink and a fee market for Zcash to keep up.)"
X Link 2025-11-12T20:26Z 107.3K followers, 64.3K engagements
"Oh boy oh boy oh boy improved Zcash coinholders voting coming soon https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/new-token-holder-voting-implementation/54547 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/new-token-holder-voting-implementation/54547"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:15Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Im so excited about Zcash. β₯"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:08Z 107.3K followers, 15.8K engagements
"@valkenburgh @lawrencehwhite1 There was an altcoin in the pre-ICO era: Freicoin"
X Link 2024-07-18T12:59Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Great example of how a bug in the LLVM compiler resulted in a vulnerability in the Aave contract on ZKsync that could have resulted in user funds being stolen if the good guys hadnt found it first: https://www.certora.com/blog/llvm-bug https://www.certora.com/blog/llvm-bug"
X Link 2026-01-15T15:22Z 107.3K followers, 64.7K engagements
"@CMagnialis Okay this is pretty good so far Still no ZIP [---] (or other possible ZEC-recycling protocols) and it is bad on mobile but it's pretty good Please try it out (on desktop) and tell me what you think I'm running out of steam for tonight. https://zooko.github.io/zcash-network-sustainability-simulator/ https://zooko.github.io/zcash-network-sustainability-simulator/"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:53Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@gwern @ForbesTech (Whole thread not just that tweet.)"
X Link 2026-02-15T04:02Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Zcash is winning. https://medium.com/@zooko/48579b89770e https://medium.com/@zooko/48579b89770e"
X Link 2024-08-09T18:34Z 107.3K followers, 686.2K engagements
"@reallyill Haha check it out. Open source projects queuing up to get prs from Crabby Rathbun. π https://x.com/gakonst/status/2022062974131917212 https://t.co/MwM6AkcdOr https://x.com/gakonst/status/2022062974131917212 https://t.co/MwM6AkcdOr"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:46Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@gwern @ForbesTech See also https://x.com/gojomo/status/1913173681406369849 @zooko @nate_zec @jakegallen or if dialog accepts keyboard-ok (maybe even unwisely as default & instantly upon popup) maybe caught user typing at critical moment a live feed of keystrokes - in screencast or maybe even just sounds - might enable optimal popup timing to (eg) catch a CR or Y. https://x.com/gojomo/status/1913173681406369849 @zooko @nate_zec @jakegallen or if dialog accepts keyboard-ok (maybe even unwisely as default & instantly upon popup) maybe caught user typing at critical moment a live feed of"
X Link 2026-02-15T04:02Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Good old fashioned open-source hacking feels like a blessed relief"
X Link 2026-02-15T05:03Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Can anyone figure out why I cant use SharedArrayBuffer on iOS (but can on macOS) Try it yourself: https://blake3-wasm.pages.dev/browser-test https://blake3-wasm.pages.dev/browser-test"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:22Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"I asked a Zcash user who is not a "computer person" much less a "crypto person" how we should market it. She said "The government can't control your money. Also if the government collapses or the banks collapse you still have it.""
X Link 2026-02-14T17:06Z 107.3K followers, 13.7K engagements
"@dwillems42 @PelicanInvasion @NanoGPTcom @nym"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:33Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@Arvolear Unstoppable private money :-)"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:03Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@gwern @ForbesTech They'd try to get you into a video call where the audio appears to not be working and then under heat-of-the-moment social pressure ask you to install a fix or switch to a different video app. That different fix/plugin/app would 0wn your system and/or exfiltrate your secrets"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:46Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"visually: (Had to use a log scale because smalloc is so much faster than some of the other ones on this test.) https://github.com/zooko/bench-allocators/blob/main/benchmark-results/AppleM4Max.darwin25/COMBINED-REPORT.md https://github.com/zooko/bench-allocators/blob/main/benchmark-results/AppleM4Max.darwin25/COMBINED-REPORT.md"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:22Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@cz_binance Youre right and the same goes for more or less all normal transactions between businesses consumers or friends. 99% of all normal economic activity requires privacy"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:37Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@VitalikButerin I remember this essay Very interesting. I think I agree about Bitcoin maximalism/fundamentalism per se but I'm not sure about Bitcoin more broadlythere could be live players in Bitcoin outside of the fundamentalist camp"
X Link 2020-08-08T22:32Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements
"πππ This is the most awesome thing I've read in weeks. πππ Sorry if this doesn't mean anything to you. I can't explain. well played signal https://t.co/fUjsbbAb63 well played signal https://t.co/fUjsbbAb63"
X Link 2021-04-21T17:14Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Squirrel from ZecHub is an excellent spokesperson for Zcash. Hes approachable and he addresses the Big Questions the important ones that most of us hardcore Zcashers have long since forgotten about such as Is it true nobody can verify the total amount of Zcash Great conversation among two communities driven by shared values $BAT $ZEC π¦xπ¦ https://t.co/Ny92LSFYzQ Great conversation among two communities driven by shared values $BAT $ZEC π¦xπ¦ https://t.co/Ny92LSFYzQ"
X Link 2024-03-09T00:16Z 107.3K followers, 11.2K engagements
"@walletofsatoshi (Featuring a cameo appearance by Andy the Sleepy Old Cat.)"
X Link 2024-06-23T20:37Z 107.3K followers, 20.6K engagements
"Just bought this coffee drink at the Starbucks in this Barnes and Noble. Paid with Zcash. This revealed zero information about my crypto holdings and my other transactions. As of today only Zcash can do this. https://3xpl.com/zcash/transaction/aa9c326cb592a2317d57e3e6bd12c52467b2c241029dd0cffcabd6ed30b43ef6 https://3xpl.com/zcash/transaction/aa9c326cb592a2317d57e3e6bd12c52467b2c241029dd0cffcabd6ed30b43ef6"
X Link 2024-12-19T02:07Z 107.3K followers, 186.8K engagements
"Reconsidering whether Trump or Biden is worse for the cryptocurrency industry"
X Link 2025-03-03T21:37Z 107.3K followers, 65.2K engagements
"@motherpredicate Try @zashi_app if you havent to see how easy and beautiful a crypto wallet can be when it is designed mobile-first and UX-first Ill send you a little ZEC and a Shielded Welcome Message. /@erwanor"
X Link 2025-05-12T16:00Z 107.3K followers, 15.5K engagements
"And Hals Last Wish: https://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=175156.msg2677193#msg2677193 https://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=175156.msg2677193#msg2677193"
X Link 2025-06-01T17:26Z 107.3K followers, 90.5K engagements
"@CameronRuggles @AlekceiKozlov @moneropepe Oh and it comes with thorough security proofs of cryptographic soundness which is apparently the current blocker for FCMP: https://zips.z.cash/protocol/protocol.pdf https://zips.z.cash/protocol/protocol.pdf"
X Link 2025-06-03T17:00Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@vladcostea Jack Jack"
X Link 2025-08-01T01:10Z 107.3K followers, 14.3K engagements
"@juanaxyz00 VertCoin That was it. Originally by the serial scammers Gary Le and Poramin Insom who also made ZeroVert Moneta Zcoin (now Firo). Spagni ran a related scam (VertPay). Le later did Bitcoin Diamond. https://x.com/RkBench/status/1955272786559086905 @P3b7_ Giving me Vertcoin flashbacks https://x.com/RkBench/status/1955272786559086905 @P3b7_ Giving me Vertcoin flashbacks"
X Link 2025-08-12T19:43Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@juanaxyz00 Spagni and Rhett Creighton then collaborated on "ZClassic" Creighton then did "Bitcoin Private" and then Creighton and Gary Le forming a kind of scammer super-group did "Bitcoin Diamond". Anyway. I need to let this go and get back to work"
X Link 2025-08-12T20:11Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Zcash is now the fundamental privacy layer for all of crypto. Theres just one thing you need to understand: Acquire and hold shielded Zcash today and youll get strong privacy with any chain when you spend tomorrow. But if you wait until you want to spend you wont. π¨ #Zcash just became cryptos privacy anchor βπ. With @zashi_app's shielded off-ramp it solves the fresh address (aka gasless withdrawal) problem Not just for ZEC but for any supported chain. This is big π https://t.co/ZiyGvkQJjw Whats the fresh address problem π¨ #Zcash just became cryptos privacy anchor βπ. With @zashi_app's"
X Link 2025-08-29T17:29Z 107.3K followers, 56.7K engagements
"Don't look at price charts. Look at market-cap-over-all-history charts. Sauce: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/zcash https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/zcash"
X Link 2025-10-06T01:20Z 107.3K followers, 60.6K engagements
"In my five-minute unscripted talk at the Network State conference I disclosed a private conversation between Hal Finney and me shortly before he died: https://www.youtube.com/live/j22fmkUFJl0si=z7REKbOxQ6L9SVN2&t=25687 https://www.youtube.com/live/j22fmkUFJl0si=z7REKbOxQ6L9SVN2&t=25687"
X Link 2025-10-09T15:49Z 107.2K followers, 129.9K engagements
"The best time to a plant a tree is [--] years ago. The second-best time is today"
X Link 2025-10-11T23:13Z 107.3K followers, 26.9K engagements
"Throwback to crypto bear market of [----]. This is my answer to the current theory being promoted by Cory Klippensten that Zcash's recent price rise is due to a "coordinated" pump. https://x.com/zooko/status/1066767821428781056 This bear market is going to drive a lot of companies and projects out of existence. That's not all bad (although a lot of it is bad). But market forces cannot drive Bitcoin Ethereum or Zcash out of existence because those are social movements not companies. . https://x.com/zooko/status/1066767821428781056 This bear market is going to drive a lot of companies and"
X Link 2025-10-20T15:47Z 107.3K followers, 21.3K engagements
"Love this post about Zcashs positive culture. Note that this post is from June before the Great Pump. Here's a non-technical reason I like Zcash. The early adopters (the people using it today) want it to win and they are overwhelmingly positive in how they convey that vision. That is also why in part you see it being integrated in so many places so quickly and why an asset Here's a non-technical reason I like Zcash. The early adopters (the people using it today) want it to win and they are overwhelmingly positive in how they convey that vision. That is also why in part you see it being"
X Link 2025-11-02T19:20Z 107.3K followers, 60K engagements
"microphone tap"
X Link 2025-11-03T15:48Z 107.3K followers, 99.9K engagements
"Wow. Ok I dont know much about markets or crypto trading but to me this looks like evidence of something important happening: Sauce: https://www.coingecko.com/ https://www.coingecko.com/"
X Link 2025-11-04T20:08Z 107.3K followers, 24.9K engagements
"This is a good article https://t.co/ODhH6wgr7K https://t.co/ODhH6wgr7K"
X Link 2025-11-05T04:57Z 107.3K followers, 30.7K engagements
"@lonelysloth_sec @samczsun @code46ash I also wonder what would happen if the coin holders announced that theyre going to award $10m retroactively to the best security improvement of the next [--] months [--] months from now"
X Link 2025-11-09T20:53Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Jess is the newest barista at the local coffeehouse and the newest Zcasher Please send her Shielded Welcome Messages so she finds out that Zcashers are friendly. βΊ"
X Link 2025-11-15T22:25Z 107.3K followers, 27.4K engagements
"@quasa0 @TZhelios @teslaownersSV @grok And their belief will call into existence an AI Santa Claus that will arise to lead them"
X Link 2025-11-24T00:56Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@Zip227 Ok Ive thought about it some more. I have two concerns about ZSAs but to be clear neither of them is unfixable. I dont want to interfere with the builders working on it and the community who supports it so Im telling you this only to support your process"
X Link 2025-12-28T16:41Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@Zip227 This is fixable either by making extra sure there are no bugs in it (and Im aware theyve done quite a lot of work on that already) or by putting it on the other side of a blast door a turnstile so that a bug in it couldnt allow counterfeiting of ZEC"
X Link 2025-12-28T16:45Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@Zip227 My second concern is economic. The only economic reward to ZEC holders baked into the current design is transaction feeslike [------] ZEC per transaction. But the benefits to ZSA holders and the costs to ZEC holders are not proportional to the number of transactions they are"
X Link 2025-12-28T16:48Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@Zip227 potentially proportional to the value held in ZSAs and the time it is held. This is fixable by adding a shielded hosting fee which remunerates ZEC holders for providing at their cost those benefits to ZSA holders"
X Link 2025-12-28T16:51Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@Zip227 And Im not offering to help Im going to wish the ZSA-builders and supporters well and go back to working on NSM Crosslink and dynamic transaction fees. Hopefully Im wrong about these concerns or if I turn out to be right we can work out mitigations or fixes together"
X Link 2025-12-28T16:55Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@Zip227 Your last request was to tag someone else. I pick Artkor/@ZcashRu. Hes actually taking responsibility for this stuff because he stood for election to ZCG. π"
X Link 2025-12-28T16:56Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@zkDragon @Zip227 Yes (especially the price oracle bad part) but the shielded hosting fees could go into the Network Sustainability Mechanism (i.e. miners etc)"
X Link 2025-12-29T01:48Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@0x_Colt @cz_binance Ive been a CZ fan ever since I love integrity. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2015/05/30/former-exec-hits-back-at-okcoin-amid-contract-dispute https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2015/05/30/former-exec-hits-back-at-okcoin-amid-contract-dispute"
X Link 2026-01-04T16:35Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@TheDesertLynx Atomic Wallet hired Least Authority to do a security audit and we found that user funds were at risk. We told them and they didnt fix it so we publicly warned their users. They threatened to sue us to take it down. That was [--] year before the big thefts from their users"
X Link 2026-01-15T19:21Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Hm value accrual to coin-holders hm Seems like maybe the crypto industry is starting to move beyond the Web2 playbook: capture the network effect of users as fast as possible figure out how to monetize them later. Zcashers take note Crypto really in an existential crisis now. Everything we thought would happen on blockchain is now happening but little if any of the value accrues to any stocks or tokens in our ecosystem. Fat protocol thesis is long dead BTC has nothing to do with ANY of the actual Crypto really in an existential crisis now. Everything we thought would happen on blockchain is"
X Link 2026-01-19T16:40Z 107.3K followers, 18.1K engagements
"Do you have opinions about questions like these You have two days to put your ZEC into a shielded wallet so you can vote with your ZEC https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-sentiment-polling-and-zip-submission-window/53766/20 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-sentiment-polling-and-zip-submission-window/53766/20"
X Link 2026-01-23T21:09Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The final form of the community sentiment polls for future Zcash upgrades https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-sentiment-polling-and-zip-submission-window/53766/41 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-sentiment-polling-and-zip-submission-window/53766/41"
X Link 2026-01-27T22:00Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"FROST (Threshold Signatures) [---] By the Zcash Foundation. https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/frost-release-v3-0-0-rc-0/54506 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/frost-release-v3-0-0-rc-0/54506"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:01Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements
"That time that Michael Saylor almost started trying to invent Zcash live on stage in response to a question. I asked @saylor if @MicroStrategy has any plans to publish on-chain proof of reserves His answer will SHOCK you Its a bad idea. - Security Risk - Irrelevant without also having Big 4-audited liabilities Check it out π https://t.co/tIxUckgbEp I asked @saylor if @MicroStrategy has any plans to publish on-chain proof of reserves His answer will SHOCK you Its a bad idea. - Security Risk - Irrelevant without also having Big 4-audited liabilities Check it out π https://t.co/tIxUckgbEp"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:24Z 107.3K followers, 16.8K engagements
"omg even more permissionless shielded coinvotes This poll is going to be so great for Zcash as a demonstration of the size and diversity of the Zcash community. sauce: https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coinholder-protocol-feature-sentiment-poll/54487/35 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coinholder-protocol-feature-sentiment-poll/54487/35"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:25Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Hey if you have an Android could you please go to and hash a file and post a screenshot of the BLAKE3 vs SHA256 benchmark results Thx https://lamb356.github.io/potential-guacamole/browser-test.html https://lamb356.github.io/potential-guacamole/browser-test.html"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:28Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"prompt: develop a new programming language that is optimised for AIs to read and to write including a highly efficient implementation for all major machine architectures"
X Link 2026-02-11T04:36Z 107.3K followers, 10.2K engagements
"https://x.com/cboyack/status/2021647373571862952 https://t.co/4SMw7birVU https://x.com/cboyack/status/2021647373571862952 https://t.co/4SMw7birVU"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:40Z 107.3K followers, 11.1K engagements
"This was a great read. Thanks Theres one super simple but powerful factor that nobody mentioned: the only reason anyone suspected crabby-rathbun of being AI is that his web site disclosed that he is. A surreal interaction in a PR opened by an AI agent: https://t.co/ZKxEdvG8GK A surreal interaction in a PR opened by an AI agent: https://t.co/ZKxEdvG8GK"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:35Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@reallyill True"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:05Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@unstoppablebyhs Interesting I haven't tried it yet but I looked at the web site and I'm curious why Unstoppable Wallet doesn't appear in the list of wallets you can connect to"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:14Z 107.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@unstoppablebyhs Really appreciate the way yall are careful about security And also yeah Im excited to get access to the ZECπother-coins functionality soon (For as long as Apple allows me to keep using a self-custody wallet on this iPhone π)"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:54Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@unstoppablebyhs Btw it would a huge UX improvement if Unstoppable would figure out which token and which chain/L2 Im trying to send to without asking me to manually enter that information"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:56Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@samuelcook Can you screenshot or paste the metadata at the bottom of the results"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:13Z 107.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@TomZarebczan @lamb356_ But why [--] This iPhone [--] Pro allegedly came with [--] performance cores and [--] efficiency cores"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:15Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@lamb356_ @TomZarebczan When I try to set it to more cores the UI changes to say Unavailable:"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:19Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@DrunkTrumpy @Anonymist Yeah I think I get what youre saying. I think it is a very widespread theory. It may even be the dominant or standard theory in economics. Im just unconvinced. It seems to assume people cant plan ahead"
X Link 2026-02-14T22:02Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Madars says the idea that SNARKs are 10-years-away crypto is totally wrong. They were 10-years-away crypto [--] years ago. #ScalingBitcoin"
X Link 2015-12-06T02:25Z 107.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Is it just me or is ZEC notably lacking in an army of shrill shills compared to many other coins large and small The Zcash community is actually quite large and active but it doesn't seem to engage in that sort of advocacy"
X Link 2018-05-29T16:31Z 106.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The ongoing spam attacks on twitter are a bummer. I'm finding myself spending more time in private Telegram groups and less time on Twitter"
X Link 2018-06-08T20:56Z 97.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Days since last sugar incident: 1"
X Link 2018-10-03T01:04Z 97.1K followers, [--] engagements
"a rainbow unicorn eating a dog"
X Link 2018-11-05T00:27Z 106.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@ercwl @Bitstamp @Cinnober Congratulations Eric And congratulations to Bitstamp and Cinnober"
X Link 2018-11-05T15:42Z 104.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Update My tweeps were right: McDonald's coffee is just about as good as Starbuck's blonde americano and substantially cheaper"
X Link 2018-11-21T22:17Z 97.3K followers, [--] engagements
"It kind of depresses me how everyone is responding to the npm dependency injection by talking about reusing code less or vetting authors more (same thing) instead of talking about making code reuse safe. This is why I think @agoric is important"
X Link 2018-11-26T23:50Z 106.6K followers, [---] engagements
"This is a serious problem. Nakamoto Consensus is failing. Vertcoin (VTC) is currently being 51% attacked by Mark Nesbitt security engineer at Coinbase: https://link.medium.com/vXUSdT1KnS https://link.medium.com/vXUSdT1KnS"
X Link 2018-12-04T20:43Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements
"I don't know a single thing about this cybercoin called Aion except that they put out this detailed transparency report: But this all by itself speaks very well of them Every cybercoin should do likewise. https://aion.org/uploads/Aion_Foundation_Report_Web_Version.pdf https://aion.org/uploads/Aion_Foundation_Report_Web_Version.pdf"
X Link 2018-12-08T22:19Z 105.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@CryptoGainz1 Yes we can. That's called Zclassic if the chainfork point is before the genesis block i.e. it is an entirely separate blockchain. Alternately we could make a chainfork that branched off from the current state of the blockchain and the new branch could eliminate the FR"
X Link 2019-01-06T07:12Z 104.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Horizen's Latest Upgrade Fixes zk-SNARKS https://blog.zencash.com/shielded-transactions-and-zk-snarks/ https://blog.zencash.com/shielded-transactions-and-zk-snarks/"
X Link 2019-02-06T02:27Z 102.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@arjunblj If Freicoin is evidence that demurrage is bad is Tenebrix evidence that disinflationary monetary base is bad"
X Link 2019-02-21T14:33Z 104.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@arjunblj P.S. I don't see how Freicoin's demurrage is any different from high-early-inflation like Bitcoin Litecoin and Zcash. (Other than the way humans look at the nominal value of a unit and not the real value.)"
X Link 2019-02-21T15:14Z 104.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@nic__carter "Scary Protocol Upgrade". The Electric Coin Company stated that the next SPU (Scary Protocol Upgrade) will activate on October [--] 2019"
X Link 2019-03-10T20:26Z 97.1K followers, [--] engagements
"The tyranny of ideasby Nadia Eghbal: https://nadiaeghbal.com/ideas https://nadiaeghbal.com/ideas"
X Link 2019-05-09T20:42Z 97.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Fascinating Tezos has performed their full on-chain governance process: Alsothe article mentionsthey are working on implementing Zcash Sapling Also it mentions that turn-out for on-chain governance in other systems is typically 57% of eligible coins. https://medium.com/tocqueville-group/reflecting-on-athens-the-first-self-amendment-of-tezos-4791ab3b1de1 https://medium.com/tocqueville-group/reflecting-on-athens-the-first-self-amendment-of-tezos-4791ab3b1de1"
X Link 2019-06-08T09:32Z 99.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@CryptoRayon No Ycash is a separate project launched by Howard Loo and @YcashFoundation. The developers of Zcash (which include @ZcashFoundation @ElectricCoinCo @ParityTech and others) had nothing to do with the launch of Ycash"
X Link 2019-06-18T18:29Z 107.2K followers, [--] engagements
"The Zeal Battles the Troll Bear"
X Link 2020-01-26T23:21Z 105.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Life is pain highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something"
X Link 2020-01-28T03:33Z 107.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Well this is freakin' awesome. How to go from $ETH to shielded $ZEC without exchanges or KYC. https://t.co/vQPQwDxeWM How to go from $ETH to shielded $ZEC without exchanges or KYC. https://t.co/vQPQwDxeWM"
X Link 2020-07-16T20:28Z 107K followers, [---] engagements
"@aristarchus @coinsnkeks @zcashvr @str4d You know how that last one wrapped ZEC on Ethereum is currently live with Ren right https://x.com/zooko/status/1289667834411245570 @Walterelprofe @BenDiFrancesco @VitalikButerin There are positive tradeoffs here too. You can currently shift between ZEC on the Zcash mainnet and ERC20 RenZEC on the Ethereum mainnet No KYC no central middleman. This is awesome and everyone should try it right now with money you can afford to lose. https://t.co/U3sDa8fGzf https://x.com/zooko/status/1289667834411245570 @Walterelprofe @BenDiFrancesco @VitalikButerin There"
X Link 2020-08-15T04:55Z 104.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@jswihart @aristarchus @coinsnkeks @zcashvr @str4d FWIW I disagree. You do get substantial privacy from using wrapped ZEC on Ethereum because the privacy comes from where your collateral is stored (ZEC in the shielded pool on Zcash) more than from where you are transacting (erc20 token in the clear on Ethereum)"
X Link 2020-08-15T14:16Z 104.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@jswihart @aristarchus @coinsnkeks @zcashvr @str4d HT @ZbayApp for a good conversation about this topic yesterday which has reminded me of the critical importance of network-level privacy"
X Link 2020-08-15T15:03Z 94.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Thank god for Messari Feed explaining this stuff because I would never have had time to learn what happened any other way. The Sushi https://messari.io/article/the-sushi-chronicles https://messari.io/article/the-sushi-chronicles"
X Link 2020-09-13T17:28Z 95.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@ViliLe I'm not sure why I would want a payment mechanism to be subject to democratic control"
X Link 2011-11-06T17:23Z 97K followers, [--] engagements
"@ViliLe I think traceability of transactions is separate from control over the money supply"
X Link 2011-11-06T17:57Z 97.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@ViliLe I know what you mean about [---] chars. It has been great practicing conciseness but I'm getting tired of the limitation"
X Link 2011-11-06T18:03Z 97K followers, [--] engagements
"@ViliLe Also my introduction of the term 'traceability' was probably confused too because Bitcoin is actually extremely traceable"
X Link 2011-11-06T18:06Z 97K followers, [--] engagements
"@ViliLe Damn this medium Although to be fair you'd probably give me [--] chars if we were using a medium that allowed infinite chars"
X Link 2011-11-06T21:53Z 97K followers, [--] engagements
"How to Stake & Earn REN renBTC and renZEC on Bancor v2.1 by @Bancor https://blog.bancor.network/how-to-stake-earn-ren-renbtc-and-renzec-on-bancor-v2-1-d493b31c0082 https://blog.bancor.network/how-to-stake-earn-ren-renbtc-and-renzec-on-bancor-v2-1-d493b31c0082"
X Link 2020-12-10T17:50Z 107K followers, [--] engagements
"@AAAinsley cows aren't bad for the planet ainsley"
X Link 2021-02-10T23:45Z 97.1K followers, [--] engagements
"π https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/bootstrapping-liquidity-for-renzec-on-binance-smart-chain/38849 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/bootstrapping-liquidity-for-renzec-on-binance-smart-chain/38849"
X Link 2021-03-12T01:06Z 106.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Proud to welcome Christina Garman to our Board of Directors. https://electriccoin.co/blog/garman-joins-ecc-board-of-directors/ https://electriccoin.co/blog/garman-joins-ecc-board-of-directors/"
X Link 2021-03-18T20:50Z 106.7K followers, [--] engagements
"People on Crypto Twitter really underestimate the breadth and the conviction of the ZEC Fanatics (i.e. the We Will Never Sell Zodlers including me). In some social circles it is "uncool" to admit that you love Zcash but in fact we are legion and we're never going to stop"
X Link 2021-06-18T20:09Z 106.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@jiminycrypt @zcash Maybe this https://blog.bancor.network/how-to-stake-earn-ren-renbtc-and-renzec-on-bancor-v2-1-d493b31c0082 https://blog.bancor.network/how-to-stake-earn-ren-renbtc-and-renzec-on-bancor-v2-1-d493b31c0082"
X Link 2021-06-27T12:39Z 100.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@cryptocopernici @least_nathan Im sure it is possible. Also you can currently get Zcash via actual Uniswap on Ethereum and then move it through the RenZEC or WZEC bridge onto the Zcash blockchain"
X Link 2021-07-04T00:15Z 107K followers, [--] engagements
"@aparnalocked Give not that which is holy unto the dogs neither cast ye your pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you"
X Link 2021-08-13T19:36Z 104.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Hey guys how about about a ZEC DAO https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/truly-pseudonymous-contributors-zomg/39992 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/truly-pseudonymous-contributors-zomg/39992"
X Link 2021-09-05T01:27Z 104.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@invincibleXhand Yeah I dont recommend waiting"
X Link 2021-09-05T02:00Z 106.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Bounty to write an Ethereum smart contract to manage some Zcash. The first version they are asking for sounds extremely simple like half an hour of work Get in there :-) https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/z-zomg-bounty-ethereum-smart-contract/40017 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/z-zomg-bounty-ethereum-smart-contract/40017"
X Link 2021-09-07T13:30Z 106K followers, [--] engagements
"There will be a ZEC-holder Poll September [--] Anybody who owns ZEC can participate entirely anonymously through the encrypted blockchain and the number of "votes" (polling points) you get will be equal to the number of ZEC coins you hold when you vote. https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coin-holder-polling-next-steps/40060 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coin-holder-polling-next-steps/40060"
X Link 2021-09-10T15:19Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@patio11 In all sincerity to me owning Zcash (ZEC) is opting out of a corrupt failing political system. I would feel gross trying to opt back in. Also if Im right maybe this will turn out to have been a good investment decision someday. βΊ"
X Link 2021-09-13T20:18Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@patio11 Ive seen you puzzling over wtf with all this crypto craziness and in all sincerity I think this might be a key. Seeing my fiat (shitcoin) bank account balance go up makes me feel bad emotionally. Seeing the number of ZEC coins I own go up makes me feel good"
X Link 2021-09-13T20:32Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@CryptoTweetie People sometimes think transparent functionality (RenZEC) + Shielded storage and transfer (ZEC) equals transparent but I kind of think it equals private"
X Link 2021-09-30T01:55Z 106.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@leoyoung0 First of all such decisions are not up to @ElectricCoinCo. We make scientific discoveries create cutting-edge technology and write software that implements it. Whether Zcash itself changes is determined by"
X Link 2021-11-06T13:33Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@leoyoung0 @ElectricCoinCo whether the Zcash community chooses to run that software and ultimately whether people around the world choose to accept and value the ZEC coins the software enables. https://electriccoin.co/blog/should-zcash-switch-from-proof-of-work-to-proof-of-stake/ https://electriccoin.co/blog/should-zcash-switch-from-proof-of-work-to-proof-of-stake/"
X Link 2021-11-06T13:34Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@MigueliCarlos No Im busy executing Electric Coin Cos roadmap and supporting @agoric and @LeastAuthority. Fortunately there are others in the Zcash ecosystem doing other things. https://electriccoin.co/blog/ecc-roadmap-calls-for-focus-on-wallet-proof-of-stake-and-interoperability/ https://electriccoin.co/blog/ecc-roadmap-calls-for-focus-on-wallet-proof-of-stake-and-interoperability/"
X Link 2021-12-29T16:08Z 107K followers, [--] engagements
"Cryptocurrencies: BTC ETH ZEC BLD ATOM SOL AVAX BAT FIL XTZ MATIC etc etc Shitcoins: USD CNY EUR GBP TRY JPY VED RUB IRR etc etc"
X Link 2022-01-16T22:28Z 107K followers, [---] engagements
"People have just woken up to the necessity and urgency of politically-neutral money. People think of Bitcoin but due to its transparent architecture Bitcoin cannot be that. It cant protect the people from the powerful. Zcash however already does. https://z.cash https://z.cash"
X Link 2022-02-22T00:01Z 107K followers, [---] engagements
"@fattygustave @boscolochris @balajis @zcash These governments stamps of approval/disapproval cannot be erased or washed off of the coins thanks again to Bitcoins fundamental technical limitations"
X Link 2022-03-03T20:06Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@fattygustave @boscolochris @balajis @zcash Now Zcash cannot have this done to it Zcashs fundamental technical architecture means that no third party can put stamps on your coins. It is mathematically impossible to do that to ZEC coins. So owners of ZEC have real effective sovereignty over their own asset"
X Link 2022-03-03T20:08Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements
"This technology fulfills one of Satoshis last one of the last wishes of my old friend whom I miss Hal https://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=175156.msg2677193#msg2677193 https://x.com/zooko/status/1499478874375163904 If a solution was found a much better easier more convenient implementation of Bitcoin would be possible.Satoshi Nakamoto August 2010: https://t.co/suYdZUCb9w Four months later Satoshi vanished from the internet. Three years after that a solution was found. #zcash https://t.co/xFgz7sGMAp https://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=175156.msg2677193#msg2677193"
X Link 2022-03-08T20:54Z 106.1K followers, [---] engagements
"The resulting politically-neutral money which is now available to everyone on the planet is Zcash. To try it for yourself download a Zcash Shielded Wallet from It takes only a few minutes to give it a spin. https://z.cash/wallets https://z.cash/wallets"
X Link 2022-03-08T20:54Z 106.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@Azzzuh @GranataLLC Yes people who hold ZEC today are contributing to the Dev Fund today. The ZEC coins in the Dev Fund are valuable only because of the ZEC holders. People who hold BTC and not ZEC today are not contributing in that way. Does that make sense"
X Link 2022-04-09T16:53Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@bitcoinomico what cat"
X Link 2022-04-23T01:54Z 104.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@jgarzik @jp_koning @JaEsf @MattAhlborg @VitalikButerin This is why attempts to anonymize your crypto by moving it through something typically fail. That action that you take is itself emitting information and the haystack of other information that youre trying to hide in is generously on the order of 232"
X Link 2022-05-01T16:43Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@jgarzik @jp_koning @JaEsf @MattAhlborg @VitalikButerin On the other hand ZEC coins that are currently sitting at rest in the Zcash Shielded Pool emit zero information (thats the zero in zero knowledge proof) about their origin when they move. Heres such a transaction. No information about the origin: https://zcashblockexplorer.com/transactions/dd75b566676023116d7dd0ed49b3b721a22d7cac083daa87dc669128dc80c8a1 https://zcashblockexplorer.com/transactions/dd75b566676023116d7dd0ed49b3b721a22d7cac083daa87dc669128dc80c8a1"
X Link 2022-05-01T16:48Z 106.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@miroyato Yes. There are a couple of early bridges currently operating RenZEC and WZEC. Better ones are possible"
X Link 2022-06-18T20:44Z 106.2K followers, [--] engagements
"It's not about privacy. It's about freedom. https://x.com/ZecHub/status/1558102145668349953 https://x.com/ZecHub/status/1558102145668349953"
X Link 2022-08-12T18:15Z 107.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@rasmuky @0xfoobar Thats where Im leaning too"
X Link 2022-09-23T07:15Z 94.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@livemarat @millercwl Yeah Doing is believing Seeing is believing. Whenever I find myself trying to explain Zcash to someone I stop myself and ask them to download a Shielded Zcash Wallet. Five minutes later (almost never longer than that) theyve used Shielded Zcash for themselves"
X Link 2023-04-06T00:32Z 94.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@Beyond_Bitcoin A Zeal of Zebras"
X Link 2023-04-18T03:34Z 98.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Zcash is a live example of this There's a lot of code in Zcash implementing network protocols consensus rules user/app interfaces etc. All of that code might have bugs"
X Link 2023-06-24T19:55Z 105.5K followers, [---] engagements
"If there are bugs in that code then attackers could potentially leverage those bugs to do different kinds of damage but one thing they couldn't do is counterfeit ZEC coins because that function is additionally protected by a zero-knowledge proof"
X Link 2023-06-24T19:55Z 105.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Every shielded Zcash transaction is required to come with a zero-knowledge proof that the transaction is valid i.e. that the sender is the one and only owner of the coins and that the coins are pre-existing coins i.e. that they are not counterfeited out of thin air"
X Link 2023-06-24T19:55Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Every Zcash miner and full node runs the zero-knowledge-proof verifier on every transaction before accepting it so in order to counterfeit ZEC coins an attacker would have to defeat the ZKP verifier itself"
X Link 2023-06-24T19:55Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@aiyadt @CruiseZodler @mikebelshe Agree. Seems to me that a simple concept is: your exchange has full public transparency of its ZEC coins which is good and you choose a Shielded By Default wallet and you get the best possible on-chain privacy without learning or doing anything else. What do you think"
X Link 2023-07-02T18:08Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@CruiseZodler @In4Crypto @iansagstette I wish Zclassic and ARRR were better so I could recommend them to people who want (respectively) no-dev-fund and no-transparent-addresses"
X Link 2023-09-08T22:43Z 94.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@sachayve Agoric's obj-cap paradigm eliminates several important vuln classes starting with re-entrancy"
X Link 2023-11-03T16:27Z 106.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Interesting post about the UX problems in attempting to build a self-custody wallet on top of the Lightning Protocol. Reading this post reaffirms my belief that you need to do things in the other order: design the UX first and only then design the core protocol to fit the UX. Must read written by a guy who's been in the mud implementing something that people actually use. Well written @benthecarman. Must read written by a guy who's been in the mud implementing something that people actually use. Well written @benthecarman"
X Link 2024-01-07T05:26Z 106.2K followers, 12.6K engagements
"@CONFnoise Hm you have the new signal user ID feature right Can you deliver a message to $person over some channel that doesnt disclose your phone number and include your Signal User ID in that message"
X Link 2024-03-25T01:51Z 95.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Hm Im paying $6 or $7 per pound for ground beef nowadays (Safeway and Whole Paycheck Foods respectively). Wasnt ground beef just $3.50 a pound approximately yesterday or am I just getting old"
X Link 2024-03-27T19:13Z 107K followers, [----] engagements
"@ialmost11 @callebtc @zashi_app [--]. Some valid reasons too many topics to go into in this tweet [--]. Number Go Down therefore people hate it. [--]. Eight years of constant lies misinformation calculated disinformation and negative narratives both from adversaries and from apparently well-intentioned zcashers"
X Link 2024-04-02T20:12Z 99.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@ialmost11 @callebtc @zashi_app Oh and I forgot to mention the calculated attacks apparently intended to harm Zcash over the years such as the ZClassic fork (portrayed as an open source project but later revealed to have been designed as an attempt to harm Zcashers) and the spam attack"
X Link 2024-04-02T20:14Z 99.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Just landed back in good old USA from a visit to Dubai. Working on improving Zcashthe completely decentralized self-sovereign currency. There are a lot of other people improving Zcash too known and unknown. Because privacy is normal and is necessary for a healthy society"
X Link 2024-04-24T23:40Z 103.5K followers, 20.8K engagements
"Dear Ethereum community: Limitations of the EVM currently prevent users from verifying a proof in a trustless mathematical verifiable way. Instead it requires normal users to depend on a group of elite insiders. This is inconsistent with your ethos. On our trusted setup and why it's needed: Our proof system doesn't require a trusted setup but in order to verify it inexpensively on Ethereum we wrap it with a Groth16 proof which is less expensive to verify. So it's the Groth16 system that requires a trusted setup. On our trusted setup and why it's needed: Our proof system doesn't require a"
X Link 2024-05-07T22:02Z 104.5K followers, 14.3K engagements
"Purely on-chain fully anonymous coin-weighted voting in Zcash. First experiment now in progress Join in https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coin-weighted-poll/47964/26 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coin-weighted-poll/47964/26"
X Link 2024-06-19T05:41Z 101.1K followers, 23K engagements
"Today is the last day to move your ZEC coins into the Orchard shielded pool so that you can anonymously participate in the upcoming Shielded Petition Coinholder Poll Update: There is one more day to move some ZEC to the Orchard pool. The registration period has been extended until block [-------] on Friday June 28th so that more people can participate. More info here: https://t.co/3ghAOOsoRJ Coinholder Poll Update: There is one more day to move some ZEC to the Orchard pool. The registration period has been extended until block [-------] on Friday June 28th so that more people can participate."
X Link 2024-06-27T19:53Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Or acquire some ZEC coins and move them into Orchard pool. To move coins into the Orchard pool all you need to do is send them to a Shielded By Default wallet like Ywallet or Zashi. π"
X Link 2024-06-27T19:53Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@valardragon Also synchronous composition means interleaving hazards (including re-entrancy hazards). Study Part III of @marksammillers thesis Robust Composition /cc @VitalikButerin @adrianbrink @cwgoes @aeyakovenko https://papers.agoric.com/assets/pdf/papers/robust-composition.pdf https://papers.agoric.com/assets/pdf/papers/robust-composition.pdf"
X Link 2024-07-07T19:35Z 94.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@valkenburgh Historical footnote: around [----] Andrew @socrates1024 Miller and I discussed the possibility of defining Zcash to have [---] total ZEC coins in existence at all times. To avoid the perennial confusion of real value with nominal value"
X Link 2024-07-18T12:53Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@valkenburgh @socrates1024 If a miner created [-------] new ZEC coins the wallets of a million users would update to show that they each now had [-------------] less ZEC"
X Link 2024-07-18T12:54Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The distribution of ZEC coins is one of Zcashs underrated strengths and hard to replicate. The initial scarcity of ZEC is an argument in favor of rather than against the network. The largest holders of ZEC are those who lost money for years accumulating a technology they wholeheartedly believed in because they had the courage to envision a better future. The initial scarcity of ZEC is an argument in favor of rather than against the network. The largest holders of ZEC are those who lost money for years accumulating a technology they wholeheartedly believed in because they had the courage to"
X Link 2024-07-24T17:11Z 106.9K followers, 14K engagements
"Coin-holder petition for the final decision about what happens after the Zcash Dev Fund sunsets itself If you had any ZEC coins in Ywallet on July [--] (and those coins had been moved after June 13) they are eligible Deadline is July [--] https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coin-weighted-poll/47964/175 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coin-weighted-poll/47964/175"
X Link 2024-07-24T20:42Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Really enjoying this debate about Namadas intention to make the complete supply of tokens transferable at launch (ie no lock-ups/vesting). I like it It is simple easy for people to understand and increases the amount of information revealed to the public by the market. @zachxbt @namada The system of vesting lockups as practiced today is a scam. It impairs the freedom of market participants manipulates the price signal and screws the public. Questioning the vesting orthodoxy is not a popular position but it is mine. Full rationale: https://t.co/jaD3A5ekzw @zachxbt @namada The system of vesting"
X Link 2024-08-04T03:58Z 103.3K followers, 13.9K engagements
"(Financial disclosure: they told me that their recommendations for the Namada genesis block will include a Retroactive Public Goods Funding gift of tokens to me personally I dont know how much.)"
X Link 2024-08-04T03:58Z 103.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Even more importantly the idea of Zcash has spread: that it is possible for people to have control over their money and that this is good for society"
X Link 2024-08-09T18:34Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Its time to upgrade Zcash to (hybrid) Proof-of-Stake The creation and distribution of ZEC coins by the Proof-of-Work mining algorithm was a necessary first step. It allowed individuals to acquire ZEC when they didnt have any and couldnt acquire it any other way"
X Link 2024-08-09T18:34Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements
"At the same time the ongoing creation of new ZEC over these first eight years has put downward pressure on the price of ZEC. (A similar thing happened to Zcashs predecessor Bitcoin during its first eight years.)"
X Link 2024-08-09T18:34Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Zcashs coin-creation schedule follows Bitcoins. Every four years the rate of new coin creation is halved ensuring that only [--] million ZEC coins will eventually exist. When the second Zcash halving occurs this November three quarters of all ZEC will have been created"
X Link 2024-08-09T18:35Z 106.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@matty_dot_thor Friendly Forks As long as it is a chain-fork like Ycash which honors the hodlers by preserving their ownership of their coins I support it https://electriccoin.co/blog/future-friendly-fork/ https://electriccoin.co/blog/future-friendly-fork/"
X Link 2024-08-12T18:22Z 106.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@matty_dot_thor On the other hand if it is a source-code-fork like ZClassic-ZEN-HoriZEN which zeroes out the current holders in order to allocate tokens to someone else I dont. I wish people didnt use the word fork to describe both things. π"
X Link 2024-08-12T18:23Z 106.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@XMRfuture @pfiifeflutscher @In4Crypto @AaronRDay But in practice nobody can actually discriminate among ZEC coins because their owner can unilaterally and without anyone elses permission shield them at any time"
X Link 2024-08-25T00:01Z 105.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Sigh. Saw three different of my dead friends being used as symbols today. I guess its both bad (because its inevitably inaccurate) and good (because its remembering and honoring them and we can learn something) but it mostly just makes me sad"
X Link 2024-10-09T20:33Z 97.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@debt_watch @CruiseZodler @jswihart @nate_zec Good job learning from reality by looking at a block explorer"
X Link 2024-10-20T18:55Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@debt_watch @CruiseZodler @jswihart @nate_zec Hm Im trying to figure out my answer to your question. One thing is all ZEC coins came out of the shielded pool at some point in the past. So saying Youre not allowed to accept ZEC coins that were shielded. is really just the same as Youre not allowed to accept ZEC"
X Link 2024-10-20T18:57Z 106.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@nikzh @TheDesertLynx If you download a Shielded By Default wallet and put some ZEC into it then youll see that your ZEC is in a far greater anonymity set than is possible with Monero today. By default. https://z.cash/ecosystem/wallets=#tag-wallets https://z.cash/ecosystem/wallets=#tag-wallets"
X Link 2024-10-26T00:00Z 107K followers, [---] engagements
"My recommendations:"
X Link 2024-12-10T19:55Z 97.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Update: add THORChain/RUNE to the long list of major projects that are trying to revamp their money-supply/tokenomics. https://x.com/THORChain/status/1889319000158462093 THORChain nodes voted to remove block rewards π₯ From [-----] $RUNE per day emitted from the Reserve down to [--] per day eliminating inflation completely 100% of income is now from swap fees with a deflationary burn of 5% system income https://t.co/A3eDAziPnj https://x.com/THORChain/status/1889319000158462093 THORChain nodes voted to remove block rewards π₯ From [-----] $RUNE per day emitted from the Reserve down to [--] per day"
X Link 2025-02-11T20:46Z 89.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@NEARProtocol @ilblackdragon @Zcash Hey Illia I was watching the recording of our conversation (because I have a rule never to tweet things unless I'm willing to sit through them entirely myself π) and I realized that I've totally overlooked the potential of NEAR chain signatures controlling shielded Zcash"
X Link 2025-02-12T23:19Z 89.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@ilblackdragon @NEARProtocol @Zcash Yeah ZSAs are the secure solution to "I want to add privacy to my Bitcoin". You get a "zBTC" token on Zcash backed by your Bitcoin and you store your zBTC at rest thus gaining actual privacy"
X Link 2025-02-13T00:52Z 107K followers, [---] engagements
"@ilblackdragon @NEARProtocol @Zcash Re other use cases for agent-controlled shielded Zcash: what about a bot that does trading for you An arbitrage bot One that gives out Zcash to people whose tweets it saw on Twitter"
X Link 2025-02-13T01:02Z 89.1K followers, [---] engagements
Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
/creator/twitter::zooko