There's a pretty long list actually: -Instant finality -Hybrid security (higher cost to attack) -Decentralized governance (a more evolved coinholder voting) -Decentralized funding (like the dev fund except none of the problems that are being complained about now -Decentralized application functionality (about to launch a social media with no back end server required) -Shielded assets (1-second finality ZSA's on Dash) -Strong adoption (I've been living unbanned off Dash for 10 years, I can't do that with Zcash yet)

I'm obviously a fan of Zcash, but let's be honest, speed and security are some of the biggest weak spots. For years I've enjoyed the Dash experience of "in 1 second it's permanently irreversible." It's a major competitive advantage. With Zcash, waiting ~25 seconds (after the new faster blocks are approved) to get some kind of security, then many minutes (at least) to be reasonably (but never fully) sure the transaction is finalized, isn't optimal. And, having to worry about mining pool centralization (which was a big problem just recently) isn't optimal either. Both of those are what mainly keep me using Dash right now. Crosslink looks to be a good step towards closing this gap. If not Crosslink, another solution to get finality in Zcash much, much faster than we have right now should be proposed. "Nah it's fine now" isn't an option IMHO.

Had the great pleasure of chatting with @aescobar0g of @rhea_finance. Finally it seems like we have a good native DeFi stack for cryptocurrencies, like privacy coins, that don't yet have it in their own ecosystems. Yet another killer NEAR Intents use case.

Dash now runs Zcash's privacy tech. Orchard powers Dash's new privacy layer—with a focus on delivering the same privacy model through a much better user experience. @TheDesertLynx explains why, with @VladCostea on @BTCTKVR.

Even worse: people with a full brain but no soul scammed people with less than half a brain into trusting their potato tech because of affinity scam. If you accept that Bitcoin maximalists are bad people and wrong, everything starts to make more sense.

Sorry I have no current have no plans to monitor or trace the ColdCard incident. My time is focused on ecosystems who value my work whereas Bitcoin maxis are not donors or supporters so I have less obligation to help. Not really interested in spending time on complex cases for a “good job” anymore.

Everyone hides their bank account/statements, their passwords and their bodies. You won't find anyone who doesn't practice privacy for at least one, if not two to three, of those things. People care deeply about privacy. They just have been conditioned to think that "privacy" means some criminal hiding thing rather than what they do all along.

Everyone hides their bank account/statements, their passwords and their bodies. You won't find anyone who doesn't practice privacy for at least one, if not two to three, of those things. People care deeply about privacy. They just have been conditioned to think that "privacy" means some criminal hiding thing rather than what they do all along.

I'm super stoked. 🤩 The lightweight AI assistant I use only supports Telegram to message remotely. Which isn't encrypted, so Telegram would see all your private data. So I casually vibe-coded a Signal plugin and.... it worked! I'm really close to having the perfect simple AI agent that runs all locally to recommend to privacy fans.

Looks like the Bitcoin maximalist "have fun staying poor" chickens are coming home to roost. DISCLAIMER!!! Normal, innocent people lost a lot of money because they trusted the bigger voices. This is very tragic and not their fault. They don't deserve to lose money, and they shouldn't be mocked. Those who led them to lose everything, however, should be. That's what this is. For years, ever since the block size wars, toxic Bitcoin maximalists mocked everyone with a difference of opinion and interest in other projects. The mantra: "Have fun staying poor." Petty, shallow, and cruel. Repeated every time some project didn't perform well in the charts, or when a protocol or company was hacked. Used to discourage people from using actual open source, decentralized, freedom-enabling tech. They viciously mocked the less fortunate while propping themselves up as the purveyors of the true, trusted, and foolproof way of securing your wealth for future generations. Well, now the chickens have come home to roost. ColdCard, the "Bitcoin-only" hardware wallet of choice, was exploited due to poor design, losing people untold millions of their savings. The same week, Bitcoin Judas Michael Saylor, their god whose only trick was to buy Bitcoin forever and make everyone rich, announced he's selling $5 billion more in Bitcoin. As mentioned above, I don't want to see people lose money. I don't delight in human misery. But the perpetrators of so much of this are finally seeing their empire of lies crashing down, and I have a keen interest in salting the earth there so that it never grows back to harm anyone ever again. If you haven't mocked a toxic maximalist influencer yet today, maybe this graphic will be useful to you.

I'm super stoked. 🤩 The lightweight AI assistant I use only supports Telegram to message remotely. Which isn't encrypted, so Telegram would see all your private data. So I casually vibe-coded a Signal plugin and.... it worked! I'm really close to having the perfect simple AI agent that runs all locally to recommend to privacy fans.

It's a massacre! 🙀 Because Bitcoin has replace-by-fee by default now, even if you move your funds before a hacker can get to them, they can still reverse your transactions by paying a higher fee. This starts a bidding war, leaving even more innocent users as sitting ducks!

All the well-deserved criticism of the toxic maximist affinity scam aside, single-sig self-custody isn't going to work. We at least need a multi-key setup of some kind where lost AND compromised shares can be replaced. And with physical device support. Whoever solves this, take my money!

This isn’t a mistake honey They failed to generate proper entropy starting 5 years ago They failed to detect it over the subsequent 5 years While they talked mad shit And then IN RESPONSE to CC users reporting stolen funds yesterday they said FUD Hell no Fuck no Fuck you Fuck that Don’t defend incompetent people Secure your shit. Do your job. Or GET THE ABSOLUTE FUCK OUT AND LET COMPETENT PEOPLE DO THE FUCKING WORK

Looks like the Bitcoin maximalist "have fun staying poor" chickens are coming home to roost. DISCLAIMER!!! Normal, innocent people lost a lot of money because they trusted the bigger voices. This is very tragic and not their fault. They don't deserve to lose money, and they shouldn't be mocked. Those who led them to lose everything, however, should be. That's what this is. For years, ever since the block size wars, toxic Bitcoin maximalists mocked everyone with a difference of opinion and interest in other projects. The mantra: "Have fun staying poor." Petty, shallow, and cruel. Repeated every time some project didn't perform well in the charts, or when a protocol or company was hacked. Used to discourage people from using actual open source, decentralized, freedom-enabling tech. They viciously mocked the less fortunate while propping themselves up as the purveyors of the true, trusted, and foolproof way of securing your wealth for future generations. Well, now the chickens have come home to roost. ColdCard, the "Bitcoin-only" hardware wallet of choice, was exploited due to poor design, losing people untold millions of their savings. The same week, Bitcoin Judas Michael Saylor, their god whose only trick was to buy Bitcoin forever and make everyone rich, announced he's selling $5 billion more in Bitcoin. As mentioned above, I don't want to see people lose money. I don't delight in human misery. But the perpetrators of so much of this are finally seeing their empire of lies crashing down, and I have a keen interest in salting the earth there so that it never grows back to harm anyone ever again. If you haven't mocked a toxic maximalist influencer yet today, maybe this graphic will be useful to you.