My conversation with Zooko Wilcox and Josh Swihart on unstoppable private money.
Zooko Wilcox is a legendary cypherpunk and one of the founders of Zcash—private, digital money.
Josh Swihart is the CEO of Electric Coin Company, the team behind the Zcash protocol and the Zashi wallet app.
Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.
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Timestamps
0:00 - Maya Protocol integrates with Zcash
3:52 - Coinbase social engineering attack
7:43 - Private money negates capital controls
14:13 - Privacy comes from money at rest
18:24 - The Zashi effect and future roadmap
25:11 - Project Tachyon
39:10 - Zcash’s anonymity set doesn’t depend on the number of its users
45:37 - Turnstiles in Zcash and the 2018 inflation bug
57:28 - “ZK” has become a marketing stunt among crypto projects
59:48 - On Binance delisting ZEC
1:01:35 - A transition toward using crypto as it was originally intended
1:04:52 - Should exchanges use transparent addresses?
1:17:38 - Coin holder voting in Zcash
1:23:38 - Sci-fi influence
1:28:37 - Gary Gensler
1:29:40 - Why I like Zcash
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