Cypherpunk holds ZEC. Now Cypherpunk mines ZEC. Onward.

Applications are now open for ZODL Summit 2027. January 19–21 • Punta Cana, Dominican Republic We're bringing together a small group to help shape the future of Zcash with one mission: shielded ZEC in the hands of billions. Apply to attend ↓

Privacy prevents you from conflating an idea with the person. You have no choice but to judge an idea by its content alone, regardless of who's offering it. ~@tyler with @cameron & Conjecture Institute Fellow @maxdesalle

“Encryption is the peaceful, nonviolent version of the Second Amendment.” — @tyler

We're BACK

A discussion on Zcash, privacy, and the separation of money and state.

Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin

Massive thank you to @arjunkhemani for helping make this episode possible! Watch it on YouTube here: piped.video/fezWpms2z3I

My first interview with @cameron and @tyler. 0:00 Intro 0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold 1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy 2:28 The first internet-native money 3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016 4:47 Money has always been private 5:31 The true separation of money and state 6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin 7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants 9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash 9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world 10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years 11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles 13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever 14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin 14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin 16:04 Gold is abundant in space 17:27 Why start Cypherpunk 19:05 The coming war on privacy 19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance 22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS 23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains 25:10 “I have nothing to hide” 27:11 Einstein at the patent office 29:14 Self-censorship in academia 29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas 30:41 Outro

privacy is a human right

privacy is a human right

Balaji explains why he believes it's “Zcash or communism” “Communism was both surveillance and seizure. Those actually went hand in hand” “In the 20th century, the way that Lenin and the Bolsheviks could go and seize the farm, seize the land is they had a list of all the farmers, the wealthy men, the guys who had two cows, the kulaks and so on” “They could send their guys house to house and obviously later the communists also wiretapped everybody in the KGB and so on and so forth” “Today, what is that? That's like the total police state. That's like surveilling everything with AI” “If AI is this panopticon, this eye of Sauron, well, you have this Zcash shield that gives zero knowledge” “AI can synthesize even the tiniest leak of information and put it all together into a picture that no one's ever had before” “Zcash is the shield that actually restores privacy underneath that because it is itself zero knowledge about financial transactions but it's also helped bootstrap the entire zero knowledge space” “Everything digital eventually gets protected by zero knowledge. So that's why it's Zcash or communism”

How we’re making Zcash quantum unlinkable through the use of one-time IVKs! In this video, I talk about how sharing your shielded address opens you up to a specific quantum attack, and how we solved this linkage for a common feature you probably exposed yourself to already.

Zcash or communism

At some point during our fireside at @token2049, @cameron asked the audience to raise their hands if they owned Zcash. About 10 hands went up in a room of full of thousands of people. it's early.

AI is the most powerful surveillance technology ever built. And you don’t think there’s a market for Zcash? It’s Zcash or communism.

Zcash is freedom.

Zcash is freedom.