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Protocol Study #3 :: Tuesday May 19, 11 AM ET. Topic: Notes, commitments, and nullifiers AKA The lifecycle of a shielded note. If you want to join, review §3.2 ahead of time luma.com/n4w8scrh

Zcash now has a home at Network School, Malaysia, where 400+ techno-optimists and founders live. Two weeks ago this was a boring empty room in a hotel, a prime location right in front of the library where all the buzz of the events happens. Today it's a Zcash office, and yesterday afternoon 12 people showed up to our office hours to talk about financial privacy, many of them setting up their Zodl wallet for the first time, eager to learn how to make their first private transaction. Not because they're "hiding something", but because privacy is a recognized human right. It' in article 12 of the Universal Declaration, constitutions include it and governments defend it, or at least they say they do. Here's what's actually strange: you share your Bitcoin address to receive a payment, and the sender can now see your entire balance and every transaction you ever made. You would sue your traditional bank for doing something similar with your bank balance. You don't hand someone your bank statement when they pay you for coffee. Zcash fixes this. Same technology as Bitcoin, but with the privacy layer that zero-knowledge proofs make possible. Transparent Bitcoin is useful for institutions, banks and governments. But its transparency can harm common people like you and me. We need financial tools aligned with our basic rights. We went from an empty room to a full one in 14 days. We are organizing talks, interviews and onboarding people into their first private transactions in this booming ecosystem. Turns out "privacy is normal" is a message people want to hear. And thanks to Zcash community effort through ZCG, it is now a reality. @Zcash @ns @balajis @zcashme @michael2xl @zcash_community @thecodebuffet @shieldedmark @keiara_d @0xkivous @adamtpang

@precariti Upstream Color (2013)

ZODL doesn't have a desktop wallet. Please be careful.

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Protocol Study #3 :: Tuesday May 19, 11 AM ET. Topic: Notes, commitments, and nullifiers AKA The lifecycle of a shielded note. If you want to join, review §3.2 ahead of time luma.com/n4w8scrh

Its pretty cool to see more and more Sapling ZEC move to Orchard. Were getting well setup for an eventual Sapling deprecation day. I expect much more to move once Orchard Quantum Recoverability is in all the wallets

@sacha This is Finite and Infinite Games

*great investors

just like my vibe-coded app—yeah, it’s buggy, but if it works, don't touch a thing

@Senpai_Gideon Everybody should have a little solar powered dealie in their backyard thay contributes to global compute.

I am very pro datacenter and would be happy to put one in my backyard.

@colludingnode Will you do this one one of the office hours? We can schedule a marathon session

I will sit in front of a whiteboard and code editor with you for as long as it takes to walk through every line of ZCash Orchard until you are convinced there is no back door. We will cover hiding commitments, encryption, curves, and zero-knowledge proofs. Any takers?

The cyberpunk and its Lex Fridman inside and it transforms into a mech that he pilots

@thedrekal Thank you!

@shieldedmark It was a great session

Getting started in about 10 minutes! 11am EDT / 3pm UTC discord.gg/zcash

@bitlarrain It's not a choice.

Why do artists continue to paint? 🎨

For us this is literally Tuesday

@ledgerstatus told you @tulipking

Missing the Uranium super cycle after watching garbage uranium stocks for like 3 years is peak Ledger Status