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Frank Braun
Frank Braun@thefrankbraun·
Of course people want private dollars/stablecoins, but they are not going to get them. For the same reason we are not going to get non-KYC credit cards: They are all building on a foundation which is controlled by the issuer/regulator. And the issuer/regulator calls the shots. USDC and Tether are both freezable for exactly that reason. Same for PAXG and XAUt, for similar reasons: Even though the gold itself is sovereign, the moment you want to build tokens on top of it you will face regulation that forces you to add a freeze function, because the physical gold has to sit somewhere in the physical world and that's where you'll get regulated. You need to start with a sovereign digital bearer asset if you actually want private money, because that's the only type of asset that is neither captured from the get-go nor has a physical dimension to it that makes it easy to capture regulatory wise. And privacy needs to be baked into L1 (see below). And in the race of sovereign digital bearer assets with privacy Zcash is the fasest horse. x.com/thefrankbraun/…
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Ponyo
Ponyo@ponyo_fp·
Some thoughts on $ZEC: The strongest bull case I can think of is that $ZEC is a reflexive monetary asset reboot (privacy, quantum readiness, institutional accessibility, and Bitcoin fatigue all converging into one scarce PoW asset). $ZEC doesn't need privacy payments to go mainstream to work. It just needs the repricing. I get it, but I think the thesis is over-abstracted. Financial privacy obviously matters. However, I believe the market is conflating that with demand for a volatile scarce L1 asset, and the two aren't the same. In practice, most users want private dollars, private payments, private wallets, and private institutional rails, not $ZEC exposure. Optional privacy gives ZEC exchange access, but it also weakens the purity of the monetary story. Rising shielded supply may reflect coordinated holder behavior more than organic economic use. Quantum resistance is a powerful narrative accelerant, but not yet a durable allocation reason. If quantum risk is too early, allocators ignore it. If it becomes imminent, the entire crypto market panics, and liquidity probably runs first to cash, gold, regulated custodians, and whatever Bitcoin migration path emerges. If quantum becomes salient, every serious chain will accelerate post-quantum plans. Bitcoin is slow, but existential threats change coordination behavior. Ethereum, wallets, custodians, and institutions will also respond. Quantum gives $ZEC a great story, but not necessarily durable monopoly value. The current move may be less "ZEC becomes private Bitcoin" and more "crypto found a perfect old-coin narrative with tight market structure and famous endorsers." Ultimately, as a narrative trade $ZEC is strong but as a multi-cycle privacy + quantum insurance asset, I believe it's weak.
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zkchase@zk_chase·
dogwifhat (WIF) — took 81 days to reach $1 billion market cap and traded predominantly on Solana DEXes through its first big run-up before Binance and Coinbase listed it...
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zkchase@zk_chase·
Campfire is a better wallet than Zodl…
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Wigeros
Wigeros@wigeros·
$ZEC staking is coming. Trailing Finality Layer is already live — the first step toward Proof of Stake. Crosslink (hybrid PoW/PoS) is in Milestone 4. Testnet expected in 2026. No fixed date yet. Question for the $ZEC community: When do you expect native staking to go live?
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Crypto Headlines
Crypto Headlines@CryptoHe4dlines·
I'm not talking about you personally or your team. I'm talking about those node operators who turned off their nodes during the pump when your $FIRO coin reached six dollars. There were tons of nodes going offline. They were selling on the open market. Retail investors who believed your token would succeed and that everything would turn out fine were the ones buying it up. A huge mistake. They thought your coin wouldn't turn back into dust again that quickly... Then the manipulators brought their FIRO back in — but this time with clean profits already secured. And now they're turning their nodes back on and have withdrawn their earnings from FIRO. Yet you're treating this like it's some major news, a serious event. It's not. It's just the usual reactivation of old, previously disabled nodes. There's no genuine interest here at all. No magic, no real recognition. That's exactly what I'm saying. So stop writing nonsense if you more or less understand how this actually works. The next pump will play out exactly the same: they'll shut down the nodes and dump your shitcoin onto retail again. There is no victory here whatsoever.
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Firo $FIRO
Firo $FIRO@firoorg·
The masternodes aren't slowing down 🔥 Since our last update, The number of enabled $FIRO masternode has grown from 6,138 to 6,577, with the total now sitting at 7,305. That's another 439 nodes securing the #Firo network! The momentum is real 💪
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Firo $FIRO@firoorg

🔥 About 1,200 new masternodes came online yesterday, locking in another 1.2 million $FIRO. 6,184 enabled #masternodes (6,913 total) as of this post and growing. The network is getting stronger - someone's gearing up for what's coming next👀

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Reuben Yap priv/acc@reubenyap·
Yesterday, a whopping 1200 @firoorg $FIRO masternodes came online bringing the total number to 6138 enabled masternodes (total 6866) and locking 1.2 million FIRO in them. Somebody is prepping up for the next gen of onchain privacy while further bolstering Firo's consensus security.
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Firo $FIRO
Firo $FIRO@firoorg·
🔥 About 1,200 new masternodes came online yesterday, locking in another 1.2 million $FIRO. 6,184 enabled #masternodes (6,913 total) as of this post and growing. The network is getting stronger - someone's gearing up for what's coming next👀
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Reuben Yap priv/acc@reubenyap

Yesterday, a whopping 1200 @firoorg $FIRO masternodes came online bringing the total number to 6138 enabled masternodes (total 6866) and locking 1.2 million FIRO in them. Somebody is prepping up for the next gen of onchain privacy while further bolstering Firo's consensus security.

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Firo $FIRO
Firo $FIRO@firoorg·
How does $FIRO secure its privacy ecosystem? Our hybrid PoW/Masternode model is built for resilience: 🛡️ Strong 51% attack protection ⚡ Near-instant finality for private transactions 🌍 Fair distribution via our ASIC-resistant mining algo (FiroPoW) This is the bedrock for #Web3 privacy.
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Sebastian
Sebastian@sebp888·
If Monero is the better Bitcoin, what is the better Ethereum?
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zkchase@zk_chase·
$FIRO has a unique characteristic: it burns the trail; it is the only protocol that provides true fungibility.
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zkchase@zk_chase·
One of the most important concepts and charts in all of cryptocurrency. Now tracking the @firoorg shielded pool... firoprice.com
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Nym
Nym@nym·
Favorite privacy coin? Go ↓
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zkchase@zk_chase·
@ThorTorrens Zcash whales will continue to dump forever 👍🏿
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Thor Torrens
Thor Torrens@ThorTorrens·
Flashback to when Ray Dalio said that he prefers gold over Bitcoin for one reason: THE PRIVACY In an era of total financial monitoring, a traceable ledger is a liability, not an asset. If an SoV isn't private, it isn't sovereign. Zcash fixes this.
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zkchase@zk_chase·
+ No VC’s to dump on you 😀
Marc De Mesel@MarcDeMesel

Raised my exposure to $FIRO to 2.5% for my #HolyGrailPortfolio, a pretty large exposure for such a small project with market cap below 100M. It's not that I studied this project in depth, but what I did catch from it, I like very much. Best privacy tech using zsnarks, like $ZEC, no opt in privacy but standard privacy for all transactions, unlike ZEC, and a team that seems to be on top of things.

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zkchase@zk_chase·
$FIRO offers Private AND Instant Transactions: No One Else Offers Both
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Frank Braun
Frank Braun@thefrankbraun·
This is the bear before the privacy cycle really gets going. Position size accordingly.
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