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NEW EPISODE: #246# - JOSH SWIHART (@jswihart) Josh leads the team responsible for the development of Zcash ($ZEC). He is the founder of ZODL (Zcash Open Development Lab) which is also building @zodl_app, a privacy-focused self-custody wallet and the flagship wallet of Zcash. In this conversation, we discuss the importance of privacy and the urgent need for private money. Josh tells the story of how he came to care about privacy in the first place, why Zcash is better than alternatives like Monero, and how the recent Ironwood upgrade closes the loop on the vulnerability discovered earlier this year. I have personally held Zcash since 2019 and view it as one of the most important projects not only in crypto, but in the world. The alternative is increasingly scary - global surveillance in the age of AI. I also view Zcash as one of the most asymmetric bets in the world. I think it is reasonable to estimate the near-term upside using the current market cap of BTC, which is over $1 trillion. The current market cap of ZEC is a little less than $8 billion. Timestamps below. Links in first reply. Please enjoy. 00:00 Early Coding Roots 01:10 From Defense Tech to Data Mining 03:34 Creepy Crawler Wake Up Call 05:30 Crypto Meets Permanent Ledgers 06:36 Finding Zcash Purpose 08:48 How Surveillance Scales Today 18:01 Why Financial Privacy Matters 26:06 Choosing Zcash Over Rivals 31:08 Bitcoin Versus Zcash 43:02 Why Zcash Finally Took Off 50:46 Governance Drama and ZODL Spinout 56:41 Ironwood Security Sprint 01:05:41 Closing Thoughts and Thanks

"When will the migration to Ironwood be complete?" It's one of the questions we've received most since activation. This article explains why migration is gradual, what the tracker measures, and where Ironwood's assurance actually comes from.

Day 3 post-Ironwood activation: • 500,000+ ZEC migrated, securing over $240M • No network disruption • Formally verified cryptography protects Ironwood funds • Supply verification continues through Zcash's turnstile Onward.

New Zallet beta build available. 🛡️ Download the latest version of Zallet, the Rust-based full-node wallet for Zcash, and help test our next release. Feedback and bug reports are welcome on GitHub.

129,396 ZEC migrated to the Ironwood pool today, representing over $60M in value. Zcash's newest shielded pool is formally verified, independently auditable, and now securing an increasing share of the network's shielded funds. Follow the flows live:

What is often lost in the noise is that there are people working relentlessly to push Zcash forward. Private, trusted, hard money. On the "inside," I get to see it every day. But you can verify it all. The Orchard soundness vulnerability was disclosed to our engineers at 11:53 PM on Friday, May 29. It was fixed in 5 days, requiring both a soft fork and a hard fork. That speed was only possible because the process was already there. Disclosure procedures and coordination channels were already in place. We were prepared. Then we built the new pool, independently audited, with 60 pull requests of machine-checked proofs. We retired zcashd after a decade and rebuilt the stack: Zallet, the new wallet, went from alpha to beta. 146 PRs Zebra was hardened. 296 PRs Zakura was brought to life. 442 PRs librustzcash and the mobile SDKs updated. 460 PRs Indexers were rebuilt. Zodl rebuilt on top. 238 PRs across iOS and Android And not just code. Comms. Coordination. Miner and exchange outreach. To date: 51 people wrote code 1,391 pull requests merged 60 days No weekends Wartime mode. 14 of those 51 are ZODL engineers. They authored half the merged changes and 82% of the changes in the protocol and wallet repos. Every consensus node has moved to zebrad or Zakura. The wallets have not. Some run on a bridge Valar built to buy time. There is still work to be done. Orchard was fixed in 5 days and replaced in 60. Ironwood activates in less than 36 hours. Track the migration: Many people are working not for personal glory or price charts, but because this work is so important. Freedom isn't free; it must be built.

T-3 days until Ironwood is live on mainnet. Supply verifiability is critical for a sound money system. Ironwood provides on-chain verification, so any node operator can audit circulating supply from activation day forward.

T-5 days until Ironwood is live on mainnet. No new wallet. No new address. Just update @zodl_app on Monday. If you have an Orchard balance, you will be prompted to migrate to Ironwood upon activation on Tuesday.