Mike daVinci

Nigga al-Gaib.

another all time high in shielded zcash so, now we have: - zec hashrate ATH & distribution ATH - more miners on the way - zec shielded ATH - the best quantum proofing for an L1 & privacy - reduced blocktimes and sync times + scaling work underway - new dev team backed by balaji, a16z, paradigm working on product, protocol, and wallet - 2 new dev teams working on scaling and physics - new payments teams spinning up all at a time where the market need for privacy, quantum proofing, and internet-native SoVs is increasing zcash is one of the very few things that keeps me fired up about crypto and its future atm

Bitcoin still dominates digital currencies (~90% market share). But if anything’s going to chip away at that over time, writes @lowbeta, Zcash $ZEC is worth watching. Why? → Privacy: $BTC is fully transparent. Zcash lets users shield transactions (sender, receiver, amount). → Momentum: Shielded usage is rising, and new capital is flowing into the ecosystem. $ZEC is only ~$4B today (~0.3% of the category). If it even reached 5% share, it's value would be 18x greater Read @LowBeta's latest article on The Stack and subscribe here: grayscale.com/the-stack/zcas…

Name one album that’s perfect from start to finish. No skips. No filler. Just pure greatness...🎶🎸

Underrated feature of Zodl is it lets you pay people in any popular crypto straight from your shielded ZEC balance. Need to send your buddy $50 of BTC/ETH/stables? Do it through Zodl and they can't see your balance and transaction history. This is the privacy endgame.

Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) has secured over $25 million in funding from a16z, Paradigm, Winklevoss Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Cypherpunk Technologies, Maelstrom (family office of Arthur Hayes), Chapter One, David Friedberg, Haseeb Qureshi, Mert, Balaji and others. If you aren’t familiar, Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) is the team formerly known as Electric Coin Company (ECC), the group that launched Zcash, and the creator of @zodl_app. The name is new, but our team has been building Zcash for a decade. A couple of years ago, my team and I set out to change the trajectory of Zcash with an uncompromising focus on the user experience for shielded ZEC. We released Zodl (then called Zashi) and have never looked back. The release of the normie-friendly wallet was the first step. Then came integrations with partners like Flexa for retail spending and Keystone for cold storage. Most recently, we worked with the NEAR team to unlock ZEC swaps through NEAR intents. It worked. The proof is in the numbers. The wallet has driven adoption of the Zcash shielded pool by over 400%, and facilitated more than $600M in ZEC swaps since October. Now is the time to build on that momentum and accelerate. In addition to Zodl, we are building Zallet, a full node wallet that will also underpin new desktop software. Ultimately, we intend to deliver a private, decentralized financial system as an alternative to legacy institutions. This funding allows us to bring these ambitions to life, without relying on Zcash dev fund grants to get there. I’m grateful for these investors who are partnering with us. These are exciting days for the ZODL team and Zcash more broadly. We’re in the dawn of a new era. We will get ZEC in the hands of billions. Download at zodl.com Onward.

We are pleased to announce a $5M investment into @zodl_app, alongside @a16z, @balajis, @winklevosscap, @cbventures, @friedberg, @paradigm & other leading investors Our shareholders now have exposure to both private digital money & the most important privacy software company 👇

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Gandalf entering The Shire

The human brain isn’t designed to process all of the world’s breaking emergencies in realtime.

Everyone needs a Tom Hagen 🌹🤌

Hi. It's a new day for Zcash! The entire former ECC team is now Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), and we are rebranding the Zashi wallet to Zodl. You don't need to do a thing, the app will rebrand with the next update. This is just a start. Big things to come.

ZEC pumping like a country passed a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains

She just asked if we could do sushi for dinner but doesn't know our portfolio is down an Audi A5 in the last sixty seconds

Amid an ocean of pessimism and nihilism in the market, the thesis for Zcash has never been stronger. Exit taxes. Asset seizures masquerading as wealth taxes. Rising authoritarianism. Communism. Infinite fiat inflation. Capital controls. Surveillance states. People need a private store of value. What are their options? - Bitcoin: Fully transparent. Dalio won't touch it because "all transactions are public", making it a non-starter for central banks. Saylor and core devs are completely ignoring quantum risk. - Gold: Private and untraceable, but physical, confiscatable, and doesn't work for a digital economy. Try crossing a border with it or sending it to someone online. - Monero: Decoy-based privacy with an anonymity set of just 16. Japanese police traced it to arrest 18 people. - Tornado Cash: Mixers are a flawed model, AI makes timing analysis trivial. You can't actually use funds while they sit there. - Aztec: Great tech but not lindy and not an SoV, they are tackling a different (important) problem: private compute. Zcash offers battle-tested cryptographic privacy with an anonymity set of millions of notes, is ahead of anyone else on quantum preparedness and has nearly a decade of operation under adversarial conditions. The entities contributing to Zcash are all well funded + ecosystem is growing rapidly with new entrants like @cypherpunk, @ebfull's Tachyon, etc., backed by the people you'd want backing it, including @naval, @tyler and @cameron, @balajis, @mert, among others. The forces driving demand for private money, be it infinite fiat inflation, asset seizures, surveillance states, capital controls, exit taxes, authoritarianism, or quantum risk, aren't going away. They're accelerating. This is a generational thesis, Zcash is not a trade. Act accordingly.

We are all in on Zcash. We need to scale Zcash to billions of users. Startups can scale, but nonprofits can't. That's why we created a new Zcash startup. cashz.org

fun to wake up to a barrage of AI slop bait about zcash that everyone has fallen for no one in zcash has quit, they literally just changed the name of the company and the corp docs lmao meaning you just got baited for a discount, won't remain for long $10,000

Impossible is a skill issue.

@ZssBecker Im surprised that you haven't talked about zcash... I assume you didn't fumble on that one this time 😬

I’m even adding alts here. A lot of alts. Top cap alts are sitting at biblical entries. You’ll see