Joachim🛡️

Been away for some time attending to Dad duties I am accumulating small portions of $ZEC regularly and still start firm with my beliefs.

@neuralunlock Happy new year Arjun!😆

@joachimtcb Happy new year!

Happy New Year! Spent time away to be with family and entering the new year with a new baby on the way! 👶🥂 The year of $ZEC continues!

@BadgerCrypto Thank you Badger! Happy new year!👊🏻

@joachimtcb Happy New Year Joachim! the best fo you and all your endeavors $ZEC & $NOX gearing to have an incredible year no doubt privacy is the play for ‘26

@zooko Thank you & happy new year! 🥳

@joachimtcb Congratulations!

Leaving a few positions due to the current conditions still strong on my privacy bags It will be interesting to see how this plays out on Monday

I’m sure glad I rotated alts into Zcash last week. A seismic shift is underway. Update your map. Update your conviction. $ZEC

quick crash course on mixers and obfuscation in crypto what is a mixer? a mixer is what it sounds like: it mixes funds a bunch of users deposit funds, mix them in a pool, and then people withdraw from that pool example: assume you have 7,500 of ShitcoinX on your account charles.sol, but you accidentally doxed your charles.sol account to degens on social media now, everyone knows your real-life identity is tied to charles.sol and that you have 7.5k of this shitcoin (this is actually pretty bad because now they can also see everything you have EVER done onchain dating back forever but let's focus on one nightmare scenario at a time) in many cases, you do not want this unwanted attention from the whole world any more than you want the whole world knowing your private messages so what you can do is put 7.5 of your shitcoin into the mixer > charles.sol has deposited 7.5k shitcoinX into MixerCash some time after, you make a new account, say derplet.sol, and then you send 7.5k of shitcoinX to derplet.sol what the outside world sees is: > MixerCash has sent 7.5k of shitcoinX to derplet.sol so in summary: > charles.sol deposited 7.5k shitcoinX into MixerCash > *some time passes* > MixerCash has sent 7.5k shitcoinX into derplet.sol now I hope you have noticed a few problems here i) everyone now knows that charles.sol uses a mixer (this can be used against you by CEXes or feds, particularly if criminals have used this mixer before) ii) it is super easy to suspect that derplet.sol is actually charles.sol so how do you solve these? for i) you're pretty much shit out of luck. this is a problem with all blockchains today including bitcoin because the ledgers are all transparent the best you can do is prove via zk that you didn't commit crime and that you are compliant (tornado cash allows for this for example), which helps with feds but nothing else only real solution is using an encrypted ledger like zcash which hides your balances and history to begin with ok how about ii)? well this is where you can make a lot of improvements via some basic operational skills (call it "opsec") - if you deposit 7.5k but take out 4.3k, then it is harder to link that derplet.sol is charles.sol - however, the above is only true if there are many other people also using MixerCash! for example, assume you're looking at MixerCash on the block explorer: MixerCash > charles.sol deposited 7.5k > derplet.sol took out 4.3k it's still very easy to tell! so you need i) many other people using the same protocol, ii) you need everyone to use uniform amounts that are not specific, iii) you need the timing to be random, if you withdraw 1 second after you deposit, you have just given your tracer a lot of information so basically: MixerCash > charles.sol deposited 5k > retardio.sol deposited 5k > james.sol deposited 5k > mertardio.sol deposited 5k *50,000 other similar transactions over 3 months > someguy.sol withdrew 1k > derplet.sol withdrew 1k now, it is much harder to link that derplet.sol was indeed charles.sol (though still possible, especially with some OP computers) the possible set of people who charles.sol could've been above is called the anonymity set. but there are still quite a few problems here, namely that you are reliant on other people using the protocol consistently and reliably. importantly, "the other people" can actually just be feds adding fake transactions here to give you the illusion of security and the real anonymity set could be 100x smaller so then you have something like monero, which works kind of like the above but is an improvement since every single transaction done onchain introduces obfuscation, basically mandatory mixing always for example, monero hides each real input among 15 decoy inputs taken from previous outputs on the chain however, you are still leaking information and you need a lot high velocity usage to probabilistically hide amongst the crowd (you are also vulnerable to quantum attacks later on) the most robust solution is what we have all known since the internet: encryption you need to encrypt and vanish the entire data, probabilistically hiding things always exposes you at some point and this is what zcash does, it encrypts everything so you can not tell sender, receiver, metadata, amount, it is all invisible and this is why it's considered the gold standard in privacy you can also encrypt everything and then use FHE to compute on the encrypted data to do operations next I'll talk about FHE, MPC, ZK, TEEs and how they differ

OWEN GUNDEN HAS NOW SOLD ALL OF HIS $1.3 BILLION BITCOIN Owen Gunden was an OG Bitcoin whale who held BTC since 2011. Since late October he has sold 11K BTC worth $1.3 billion. He has just transferred $230M of BTC to Kraken, marking his final sale.

@Solid_Primal Thank you for checking in! She’s doing great!

@joachimtcb Gm Joachim. Hope your daughter is doing well.

We are witnessing what happens when you invest in the future. $ZEC in a league of its own.

What's better, a trillion dollars or a zillion dollars?

Over 40 bitcoins were encrypted via NEAR Intents in the last 6 hours.

Thesis on Zcash and why I accumulated significant position at $636. 1. $ZEC recently upgraded with price surge. Privacy pool usage showing significant growth. 2. Zcash is opt in privacy which allows exchanges to list and entities to ingratiate while allowing users to opt into privacy pools. Win-win 3. $BTC is neither scalable nor private. $ZEC is both. 4. Recent crackdowns in EU over KYC requirements self-custody. 5. Alt-szn looks imminent with BTC.D rolling over. $ZEC likely biggest runner into new zero knowledge meta. Zcash is Cyberpunk. Pre-Satoshi. What Bitcoin should have been until he disappeared

if you don’t have 23 minutes to learn about the biggest asymmetric bet in crypto, what are you even doing here? absolute must watch. $ZEC

What’s your hedge? Mine is $ZEC.

History about to repeat itself with $ZEC

I hear you all like Venn diagrams. I also have one.

Never been a purchaser of meme tokens but I have conducted some research and there is one I think I am confident to place a reasonable figure inside. I’ll look to add $SPX to my portfolio.

My daughter has been very unwell so I have spent some time away from here to be there for her. I hope she starts to feel better soon then I will resume the article writing.