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The likelihood that KOLs are getting paid to trash Zcash is far more likely at this point than KOLs getting paid to shill it.
$Zcash is not private. It’s been proven by ZachXBT and many others to be fully traceable.
They’re trying to market a basic bitcoin fork (thousands exist).
In reality, it’s a company that owns 20% of all mining blocks. It’s a business model built to extract:
Fooling investors.
Because value has begun to consolidate around networks that respect an individual rather than exploit them.
Loud ledgers that broadcast every action to the world were modern innovations 10-15 years ago. Now they are becoming artifacts.
Silent ledgers are the recalibration to that. They are just now starting to see value accrual.
Gonna be a fun decade ahead.
am i missing something?
how the fuck is ZCASH ( $ZEC ) at $580?
up 400% in the last 30 days
despite it being the worst 30 days we’ve seen this cycle
ZK technology privatized cash
$500 ✅
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This is a tweet about social evaluation as much as it is market price
We have only begun
“BuT mUh dArKnEt UsE”
Treat privacy like contraband and regulators will too.
Treat it like infrastructure and rights will become socially unshakable.
THAT is cypher/acc
Agree with Mert.
It’s easy to cosplay cypherpunk by whispering about dark-web markets. It’s harder(but infinitely more impactful) to engrain privacy into the social fabric so deeply that no one even blinks when you use it.
Normalization is the real activism.
Build the norm and the law follows.
This is a Zcash tweet.
All of the market continues to bleed and in the midst of that we see a poetic irony.
Zcash, a tool designed to protect sovereignty, is becoming the greatest compounding machine in the open market.
Cypherpunk values arent just scaling socially. They are also scaling into billion dollar infrastructure.
Privacy is turning into capital with a spine.
Bitcoin broke $1k December of 2013. It then corrected and for the next 3 years consolidated between lower-higher three digit range(was the ideal time to accumulate for any normie)
Ideally a similar setup for Zcash at this point makes sense as far as long term healthy price expansion.
The market is a beast unto itself and may say otherwise .
Either way Zcash isn’t a trade. It’s a turning point.
Theres only one path to Zillions.
The more people that shave their head , the higher Zcash will go.
Come. Join us.
the future doesn’t belong to whatever is trending. it belongs to what refuses to die
most tech burns bright and fades like a match
a few become infrastructure so quietly that people forget truly how innovative it was
the great asymmetric bet with Zcash was not being early. it was being right long enough for the world to catch up
the last 1,000x thesis
the reason I call privacy the last 1,000x or the last PvE is not just for a soundbite (though it's also that)
it is based on fairly obvious, emergent market asymmetries and gaps, along with the right timing on macro
this includes ZK, but is not limited to ZK, and also includes mixers, FHE, and MPC
a brief sequence of events:
- Bitcoin started as a cypherpunk movement for internet money as a response to the 2008 financial crisis
- it was novel, anarchist, and unproven — no one knew if it would work, and so the race to gain legitimacy was on
- as it gained popularity, there were 2 large criticisms of Bitcoin: the lack of programmability (and scale) and the lack of privacy
- Ethereum was started to tackle the lack of programmability, and then Solana was started to tackle the lack of scalability in programmability
- this is what we have seen play out for the past 5-8 years in crypto, along with Bitcoin gaining legitimacy
- improvements will continue to happen on the programmability/scale branch and the Bitcoin branch, but I'm not sure we'll see another 1,000x improvement
- that is to say, I think future improvements are marginal, not order of magnitude in scale
- on the other hand, Zcash was created to tackle the other branch of criticism. the lack of privacy
- if you imagine the technological tree in civilization, it aimed to progress along the privacy branch
- the privacy criticism was widely acknowledged by the likes of Satoshi (who cited Zooko on the first Bitcoin post) and Hal Finney in public forums
- in those years, you had to get around the big problem in digital cash, the double-spend problem
- to get around the double-spend problem, you had to make sure that everyone saw everyone else's balances
- at the time Satoshi was open to adding ZK to Bitcoin for privacy, but did not know how to get around this problem, the tech was very new. he publicly states this in the early Bitcoin forums that this would allow for a better, simpler Bitcoin
- the tech was so new in fact that Zcash was the first team on earth to ship ZK to production. not just in crypto, but in any industry!
- but again, the tech was too new and hard to work with, and required many iterations to get right and get rid of trust assumptions, so the project struggled
- which brings us to today. where ZK tech finally works. and where the brand of scale/programmability has reached the upper bound of the technological S-curve.
- Bitcoin has gained legitimacy and Solana/Ethereum have proven programmability has PM, the privacy branch is the last piece remaining
- it is also extremely timely. crypto has largely been dominated by speculative and commercial interests as of late, but crypto was started by the cypherpunks and the cypherpunks' aim was to build systems of liberty and privacy using cryptography and code
- we are at that stage now
- combine this with the macro environment of debt crises, the fact that non-state money has clearly been proven to work with Bitcoin, and the colossal abuses and breaches of power and privacy all over the world spearheaded by Europe, this is the time where privacy and ZK will start eating the world as well as newer forms of digital SoV
- specifically a private internet-native SoV using advanced cryptography like ZK
- these fields are also some of the only fields difficult, impactful, and novel enough to suck away meaningful talent from AI; and once this is realized, much more capital will go towards them
cypher/acc
the future doesn’t belong to whatever is trending. it belongs to whatever refuses to die
most tech burns bright and fades like a match
a few become infrastructure so quietly that people forget how innovative they truly were
the great asymmetry isn’t being early. it’s being right long enough for the rest of the world to catch up
the last 1,000x thesis
the reason I call privacy the last 1,000x or the last PvE is not just for a soundbite (though it's also that)
it is based on fairly obvious, emergent market asymmetries and gaps, along with the right timing on macro
this includes ZK, but is not limited to ZK, and also includes mixers, FHE, and MPC
a brief sequence of events:
- Bitcoin started as a cypherpunk movement for internet money as a response to the 2008 financial crisis
- it was novel, anarchist, and unproven — no one knew if it would work, and so the race to gain legitimacy was on
- as it gained popularity, there were 2 large criticisms of Bitcoin: the lack of programmability (and scale) and the lack of privacy
- Ethereum was started to tackle the lack of programmability, and then Solana was started to tackle the lack of scalability in programmability
- this is what we have seen play out for the past 5-8 years in crypto, along with Bitcoin gaining legitimacy
- improvements will continue to happen on the programmability/scale branch and the Bitcoin branch, but I'm not sure we'll see another 1,000x improvement
- that is to say, I think future improvements are marginal, not order of magnitude in scale
- on the other hand, Zcash was created to tackle the other branch of criticism. the lack of privacy
- if you imagine the technological tree in civilization, it aimed to progress along the privacy branch
- the privacy criticism was widely acknowledged by the likes of Satoshi (who cited Zooko on the first Bitcoin post) and Hal Finney in public forums
- in those years, you had to get around the big problem in digital cash, the double-spend problem
- to get around the double-spend problem, you had to make sure that everyone saw everyone else's balances
- at the time Satoshi was open to adding ZK to Bitcoin for privacy, but did not know how to get around this problem, the tech was very new. he publicly states this in the early Bitcoin forums that this would allow for a better, simpler Bitcoin
- the tech was so new in fact that Zcash was the first team on earth to ship ZK to production. not just in crypto, but in any industry!
- but again, the tech was too new and hard to work with, and required many iterations to get right and get rid of trust assumptions, so the project struggled
- which brings us to today. where ZK tech finally works. and where the brand of scale/programmability has reached the upper bound of the technological S-curve.
- Bitcoin has gained legitimacy and Solana/Ethereum have proven programmability has PM, the privacy branch is the last piece remaining
- it is also extremely timely. crypto has largely been dominated by speculative and commercial interests as of late, but crypto was started by the cypherpunks and the cypherpunks' aim was to build systems of liberty and privacy using cryptography and code
- we are at that stage now
- combine this with the macro environment of debt crises, the fact that non-state money has clearly been proven to work with Bitcoin, and the colossal abuses and breaches of power and privacy all over the world spearheaded by Europe, this is the time where privacy and ZK will start eating the world as well as newer forms of digital SoV
- specifically a private internet-native SoV using advanced cryptography like ZK
- these fields are also some of the only fields difficult, impactful, and novel enough to suck away meaningful talent from AI; and once this is realized, much more capital will go towards them
cypher/acc
“Privacy isn’t profitable”
Bro. OG Coders accidentally invented billion dollars markets trying to defend human dignity.
Freedom is the hidden bull market.
Cypherpunks never set out to build wealth machines. They aimed to build freedom machines
Yet here we are.
The protocols , like Zcash, born from ethic likely will be some of the fastest approaching assets over the course of the next decade.
Sometimes the most profitable bet is the principled one.
ben ~ priv/acc 🛡 retweeted
Bitcoin is the gold chain you flex in public.
Zcash is the gold stash no one knows exists.
I remember the price action of BTC 2016/2017 leading up to $1k and eventually onward to 20k.
This Zcash price movement has that same nostalgic euphoria , backed by pure cypherpunk ethos.
It’s been 9 long years but I’ve missed this feeling.
The market always wakes up late to fundamentals while brilliance compounds quietly.
Zcash is a perfect blend of architecture and conviction.
For years the market has speculated . Now it’s time for execution to actually speak.
To Zalhalla