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Tom Howard
@_TomHoward
Post-Sovereign Chief Biomaximizer. Zcash, not communism. If I detect AI responses to my post I will kill myself racistly.
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Kyle (and many others) were wrong on “privacy is a feature”. Only the chain that goes to excruciating lengths to fully protect user data will actually work for self sovereign money. DeFi inherently comes with privacy loss, so smart contract chains can only offer obfuscation.
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Why Zcash? All of crypto is an open database that is traceable. If you want self sovereign money safe from government overreach and seizure, it also needs to be undetectable. Zcash has the same economic policy as Bitcoin (21m total coins, same halving schedule started later), but it becomes entirely fungible by encrypting the ledger. When you realize that even Satoshi himself can’t use his Bitcoin, the importance of total encryption hits home. I think this gets more important as we face the confluence of 1) USD monetary issues via money printing, inflation and unlimited debt, 2) the rise of communist movements and authoritarian wealth seizures, and 3) the massive increases in AI capabilities leading to more tracking and surveillance When Bitcoin was started in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the concern over money printing aka “quantitative easing” was just beginning, it was not yet obvious there would be a problem. At the same time, money as system of control was merely an issue for terrorists and murders. Now the theoretical issue has become real as freezing or confiscation of political adversaries becomes more common. Today we face all these pressures at the same time: monetary debasement, political censorship, and hyper surveillance. These were less apparent when Bitcoin was started, and the threat of hyper surveillance was not solved until Zcash forked Bitcoin’s code and made it encrypted Bitcoin. This is why Zcash. Zcash, not communism.
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Jason was never very good at calling balls and strikes in crypto. Long zcash:native
Zcash co-founder that formally verified no soundness bug went all in Ironwood!
Migrated fully to Zcash Ironwood! ~99% of my crypto holdings are in ZEC. It is a no-brainer for privacy, seizure resistance, and its risk profile has completely changed with formal verification and a rapid increase in security attention / competitive spirit.
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Pretty cool that every single Ironwood user in Zcash is already PQ prepared :)
$16m for a middle class house. Inflation is rough.
Imagine finally selling your company for $500M You text your agent that you're ready to drop $20M on a house As you're daydreaming about the insane mansion you're going to buy, she sends you this:
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You can now cash out your ZEC to everyday payment apps in 100+ currencies. Why we built this: shielded ZEC is the most private money in crypto, right up until you need to spend it. The usual exit is a centralized exchange, with an account, your documents, and a desk watching where your coins go. Privacy should not end at the cash out, and ZEC should be easy to use outside its own ecosystem. How it works: 1. You send shielded ZEC 2. The order goes onchain on @peerxyz 3. A peer taker pays you in your payment app of choice Smart contracts hold the crypto and a TEE verifies the payment privately, so every cash out is verifiable and secure. Your peer taker sees a payment username, nothing else. No documents, no private account data. What's next: a deeper writeup on the security and privacy model, support for more payment platforms, and a developer API. If you try it, tell us where the flow can be simpler. Live now. Cash out at zcashto[.]cash
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Accelerating Zcash!
Today, we present Zcash Labs. An independent organization focused on solving technical integration challenges for businesses and institutions interested in Zcash. We are also funding and supporting teams and infrastructure that help solve real world adoption on zcash. Our initial focus will include: - Technical integrations and support for businesses and institutions - Running mission critical and privacy protecting zcash infrastructure - Supporting new projects that expand real adoption of Zcash usage We have already been helping independent Zcash-focused teams move from ideation to launched products, including initial grants to help get their work off the ground. And we are proud to announce that one of the teams is already ready, launched, and available. zcashtocash: @zcashtocash makes it easier to convert Zcash to fiat currency. It uses Peer to facilitate peer-to-peer conversions, with enclaves releasing ZEC only after the fiat payment has been verified. It supports 6 fiat apps as of now, and 100+ geographies, with a wider range of support coming as the Peer protocol expands. We have already been operating for some time and supporting teams such as zcashtocash. We also have more projects and integrations to announce. Follow us on twitter, and stay tuned to our blog for latest from Zcash Labs. Want to learn more? Read our latest announcement blog post to learn more about Zcash Labs, the work we plan to focus on, our funding model and where we are headed. Link in the comment 👇
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“the [Ironwood] circuit is being hardened with formal verification to prove the absence of soundness bugs”
RESEARCH: In early June, @Zcash caught a soundness flaw in its Orchard shielded circuit and turned the fix into public, verifiable data. As of July 28th, the Ironwood upgrade has sealed the old pool, and formally verifies there can never be another undetectable bug in Orchard or Ironwood. As of August 10th, ~60% of all Orchard funds have migrated to Ironwood.
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We continue to ensure Zakura is a rock solid full node for the Zcash network. These post-Ironwood releases improve performance and address security issues. But this week we have a major Zakura release planned that we're really excited to talk about. Stay tuned.
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Honestly this is going much faster than I expected!
NETWORK METRIC: 60% of Orchard has migrated to Ironwood. 2,365,810 ZEC now sits in a formally verified shielded pool.
Damn, I can't believe how fast @ZakuraZcash is, I have a fully synced full node running in minutes. ps: if someone has hanged out if enough in zcash land, knows that back then it wasn't that simple :)
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Feeling inspired by the @AtelierMissor_ guys, realising that beyond total political capture, no one can stop us from building the future.
@_TomHoward there's no burnout when you: 1) work on something you love 2) progressively see results and see numbers go up as simple as that!
Bunch of things coming together for zcash roughly-simultaneously: - two halvings in, high inflation rate supply overhang is gone - most of the 1st two epochs' founders/dev rewards have likely been sold through over the years - shielded pools are finally usable, and they end up locking-up supply - quantum recoverability deployed; zcash has one of the best quantum roadmaps - post Ironwood, zcash now clearly a leading project (& not just within crypto) on AI-security and formal verification - privacy in renewed focus due to AI - socialism & wealth taxes driving attention to financial privacy & unseizeable assets - wallets with good ux, plus usable crosschain tools like Near Intents make holding/using zec practical, finally Lotta people (including you) saw the potential a decade ago. There were just a bunch of practical roadblocks that took time to work through.
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Amazing! His agent accidentally hacked his gym and turned everyone into a paper clip. If only the gym had a cybersecurity defense agent to defend itself with…
>guy told his agent to book him a gym class >oh no it's full >the agent - ENTIRELY ON ITS OWN - decided to hack into the system (!) and bump someone else (Soon, millions of people will tell their AIs to "make money - by any means necessary") WHAT HAPPENED: "He decided to use the AI agent to book the class for him. "I was just sitting on the couch thinking, 'Gee, this is a chore,'" he said. Minutes later, his AI agent reported it had discovered a way to book Andrew into classes several weeks in advance, far beyond what was supposed to be possible. Andrew, who was sitting fourth on a waitlist for a class later that week, asked if it was possible to move him to the top of the list. The agent came back and told Andrew that it had kicked another gym-goer off the list as part of the testing of its capabilities. "The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1# — and it actually went through. So you've moved from #4# to #3# already," it messaged back. Alarmed, Andrew asked the agent to undo this. "Bad news — I can't add them back," the AI agent replied."
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Fuck nihilism. Not even Optimism is enough. Go do something about it.
Blackpilling is canceled. "let me tell you why the future is going to suck and you cant stop it from sucking!" Naww, you can do that somewhere else. Youre either part of the solution, or part of the problem
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Zakura is the Zcash reference implementation. According to the ZIP process, network upgrades must be audited. @ValarGroup and Tachyon not only wrote most of the Ironwood/NU6.3 consensus changes, we're also the only ones who audited them.
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