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Please enjoy our newest video!
A Cashless Future Is More Dangerous Than You Think
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SURPRISE! Our 2nd video came early.
Watch it now to learn about
#Zcash
's Ceremony, how it worked, why
@ebfull
's Halo breakthrough makes it obsolete, and an exclusive interview with
#JohnDobbertin
himself, Edward
@Snowden
.
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It's coming...
In a week, on April 22, our first video—which examines why a private digital currency like
#Zcash
could change the course of history—drops. For now, here's our channel trailer.
Subscribe now:
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Hello
#Zcash
🛡️ fam!
We're getting ready to start showcasing the work of Zcash Media to the world! Our multi-platform educational hub is launching this month, but first a quick intro to who we are and our mission...
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Does he even need an introduction?
We sat down with Vitalik Buterin (
@VitalikButerin
),
#Ethereum
founder and long-time supporter of
#Zcash
, to chat about how crypto is already providing something useful to the world.
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As every year passes, more of our lives are lived online. And while this brings tremendous benefits, it also brings great risks.
The benefits we've gained in the spreading of knowledge, social connectivity, productivity, entertainment, and a million other conveniences are paid
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Two awesome people
@zooko
and
@VitalikButerin
that have made time to work with us for our
#Zcash
videos!
Zooko got to give Vitalik his shirt-ception gift and we got to give both of them their very own
@zcashmedia
passes 🙏
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@alexeheath
Not sure if Eric Schmidt has an ethical bone in his body. Also funny that the man who said “if you’re doing something that you don’t want anyone to know about, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” wants to hide the talk by pulling it from YT.
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It's less than a week away!
We're celebrating with the release of this incredible
#Zcash
Media poster by Juliet Schreckinger (
@schreckingerart
).
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We managed to sneak an interview with the man who sparked the largest conversation about privacy in history:
@FreedomofPress
President and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden (
@Snowden
).
He's been a
#Zcash
supporter a while and was gracious enough to answer a few of our questions.
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We originally wanted to drop this clip of
@VitalikButerin
leading up to our first video, but we ran out of time.
We share it now because it describes one of our shared motivations: using tech to help build a better world, not a worse one! Let's all keep building!
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How come it's so easy to send text and images over the internet but sending payments (used to) always require an intermediary?
Peter van Valkenburgh (
@valkenburgh
) of
@CoinCenter
+
@ZcashFoundation
joined us to talk about some of the Internet's problems.
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Just who did we interview for our first videos, anyway?
Ahead of our Apr 22 channel launch, we’ll introduce you to our intrepid cast, starting with
#Zcash
founder and
@electriccoinco
CEO Zooko Wilcox (
@zooko
), who invited us to film at his "Undisclosed Location" - thanks Zooko!
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Fixing the Web’s Greatest Problem
Our newest video explains the problematic business model (Surveillance Capitalism) dominating much of the digital world and explores whether two developing technologies (Web3 and Web 3.0) will fix this business model, or make things worse.
To
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Wallet download and z-addr instructions
1. Go to
2. Choose a wallet to use and download it
3. Setup wallet and save seed phrase
4. Post z-addr in the comments to receive a clue about John Dobbertin
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New to crypto?
@electriccoinco
Engineer Sean Bowe (
@ebfull
) explains a major
#Bitcoin
flaw & why he thinks
#Zcash
can fix it.
We're excited for you to see our 1st video, dropping April 22. Subscribe so you don't miss it:
🧭
🧭
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New Video: The Hole in the Constitution That Started A 100-Year Battle Over Privacy
Check it out now to learn about the history of the 4th Amendment, and why its vague language about privacy has led to an ongoing battle about privacy still raging to this day:
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Our new trailer is up on YouTube. Please watch and share!
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Huge S/O to
@Zcash
and the
#Zcash
community by Alex Tabarrok (
@ATabarrok
)!
Zcash developers are pushing the boundaries of
#cryptography
and applying what they learn to make Zcash better for all of us. 🛡️
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You are right, he does have a halo! And soon
#Zcash
will have a Halo 2 (but that’s in our next video “The End of Zcash’s Trusted Setup: Who is John Dobbertin?” Coming out next week!)
Good video on
#zcash
. I am featured along with blockchain luminaries like
@zooko
and
@VitalikButerin
but only Vitalik (appropriately) gets a halo.
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We are hosting a
@TwitterSpaces
tomorrow at 10AM PST with folks from
@zcashcommgrants
@electriccoincco
@zcashfoundation
to talk about our recent video and how to start using
#zcash
today!
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In recent weeks, the Zcash user experience has experienced some difficulties, with wallets being "stalled" or unable to easily send txns.
So what's going on and what are the solutions?
Let's take a look!
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New video is up!
The Three Dilemmas Stalling Privacy Laws.
What are they and what are the solutions? Watch the video to find out.
(Should by synced to
@OdyseeTeam
soon)
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We've talked to
#Zcash
founders, engineers, and the greater Zcash family including
#Ethereum
founder
@VitalikButerin
,
@ShapeShift_io
founder
@ErikVoorhees
, and
@gitcoin
founder
@owocki
...
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Set a reminder so you don’t miss out, at least one announcement will be made!! Let’s make this the biggest z-addr wallet onboarding ever!
@ZcashCommGrants
@ElectricCoinCo
@ZcashFoundation
We are hosting a
@TwitterSpaces
tomorrow at 10AM PST with folks from
@zcashcommgrants
@electriccoincco
@zcashfoundation
to talk about our recent video and how to start using
#zcash
today!
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Did you know that privacy is actually *necessary* for national security?
Digital privacy helps protect everyone from attackers big and small.
Help us, alongside the brilliant Amber Baldet (
@amberbaldet
), educate the world about why we should prioritize privacy.
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We had a blast attending and presenting our ideas about technology and media at the
@ZcashFoundation
’s
#Zcash
conference ZCON3!
ICYMI, we provide a breakdown of our presentation below!
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Our new video is up on YouTube!
We'll post it directly on here soon, but if you want to watch right away, go here:
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#Zcash
offers private, digital transactions without any intermediaries. It’s like cash, but on your phone, and with a capped supply of 21 million $zec.
Giving individuals the power to store and use money privately over the internet is a powerful foundation for the digital age.
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@durumcrustulum
of
@ZcashFoundation
reminds us that encryption/privacy are not "special" add on features - they are fundamental to building technologies that respect and protect users.
Instead of asking why privacy is necessary, we should be asking: why isn't it the default?
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AND, most importantly, our first two videos will be dropping:
🎬 April 22 - Zcash Short Doc
🎬 April 29 - Halo/Dobbertin Reveal
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Nearly every crypto is a nightmare for preserving one’s privacy. They post all transactions and account balances publicly, by design.
#Zcash
, when using shielded addresses, is the best privacy you can get for any form of digital money (credit cards, PayPal, crypto, etc).
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It's Christmas Eve in LA, so we thought it's as good a time as ever to share sneak peaks of some of the interviews we've gathered so far for our short videos on
#Zcash
!
We are so grateful to be supported by the Zcash community to interview these truly wonderful people.
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Testing the whole "post entire videos on here" thing 🧐
We produced this video 2 years ago to simply explain the origin of Bitcoin, its major privacy problem, and how zero-knowledge proofs solved this problem - leading to the creation of Zcash. As a new cycle of crypto awareness
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We met with
@GeorgeMasonU
professor Alex Tabarrok (
@ATabarrok
) to discuss how
#Zcash
affords Americans the right to use the strongest levels of
#cryptography
in their personal financial transactions.
Subscribe now for more:
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We're at the end of one stage and the beginning of another.
For more than a year, we've been researching the complicated story of privacy. How it affects our technology, our economy, our politics, our laws, our money, our mental health.
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We chatted with Amber Baldet (
@AmberBaldet
), of
@GrowClovyr
+
@ZcashFoundation
, about the risks of centralized control we currently see in our money technology.
See more in our video dropping April 22!
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For all those following us and reading this - make sure to turn post notifications on because we are only 1 week away the start of the biggest
#Zcash
education campaign ever. Nearly the whole month of April we'll be posting trailers, teasers, and other promotional materials.
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.
@brave
is generously helping to amplify our videos’ reach with their
@brave
Ads + $BAT system.
As a baseline, they are running a test on our previous video, and will also run campaigns for our upcoming videos.
Fighting for privacy is best done together. Thank you
@lukemulks
🫡
UPDATE - We've deployed the
@Brave
Ads + $BAT pilot test campaign with
@zcashmedia
For this phase, we're testing a campaign that runs to the Zcash Media documentary on privacy and bitcoin linked in the quoted post.
We're going to run this as a comparison against some new
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If you haven't already seen it, check out our interview with
@Snowden
, who exclusively revealed to us that he was the pseudonymous
#JohnDobbertin
from
#Zcash
's Ceremony.
Thanks to
@schreckingerart
for this incredible poster!
WATCH IT NOW
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Our videos will drop with subtitles in the following languages:
- Arabic
- Chinese (Simplified)
- French
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
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If nothing else,
#cryptocurrency
solves one major problem: the ability for people to hold their own digital assets w/o an intermediary.
@ebfull
explains that intermediaries in between you and your money presents serious risks, including censorship or even seizure.
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Will Zero Knowledge Proofs Be More Important Than Blockchain?
@Zcash
Founder
@zooko
& Engineer/Cryptographer
@ebfull
#zcash
#zeroknowledgeproofs
#blockchain
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Zcash vs. Bitcoin: The Privacy Difference in Transactions
Michelle Lai from the Electric Coin Companies Board of Directors
#zcash
#crypto
#blockchain
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To our new followers from the
@FlexaHQ
$amp community and beyond - if you’d like to learn about the origin and benefit of $zec, check out this video :)
You will hopefully learn a lot and see lots of important faces in the industry 😊
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#FlashbackFriday
to our interview with
@Snowden
where we recorded with 3 computers, one film camera, and one mic to make sure we didn’t miss a word of what he said 🤪
Who wants to see more videos where Ed talks about
#privacy
by design, digital identity,
#Web3
, and more??
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Very glad to have someone like
@valkenburgh
, who knows U.S. law so well and is such a fierce advocate for open source privacy tools, be a key supporter of
@zcash
.
He’s currently a Board Member of
@ZcashFoundation
and Director of Research
@coincenter
.
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Are we reaching a new tech frontier?
We chatted with Erik Voorhees (
@erikvoorhees
), founder of about the new crypto era that is upon us.
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Why Privacy Matters for Financial Assets and Personal Freedom
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin
#ethereum
#privacymatters
#crypto
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We need simple and engaging educational materials geared towards policy-makers reminding them that privacy is the cornerstone of nearly every human freedom - *especially* in the digital age.
Engage with this tweet if you agree!
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Hi Zcash fam, we dropped out proposal to sustain and scale
@zcashmedia
for the next 1 year+!
While we plan to do a Twitter Spaces on Friday to talk w/ folks about it, we thought it would be a good idea to try and break down what's in the grant here! Buckle up!
🧵👇
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A THREAD:
Now that our first video is out, we wanted to share some
#BehindTheScenes
photos/stories about our adventures doing the interviews.
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TGIF y’all! Lots going on in
@zcash
land today from Zurich to NFTs.
We’ve been getting back to basics recently
@zcashmedia
and we’re curious:
What aspect of privacy are you most passionate about?
Comment below to tell us your biggest reason for caring about privacy👇😀
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Great to see more podcasts/interviews with Zcashers like
@zooko
,
@socrates1024
, and
@jswihart
.
Showing just how thoughtful some of the leaders in the
#Zcash
is a great way for people to find out about $ZEC.
Here’s a list of some of the content that has come out recently 👇
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Spotted in the wild 😁
.
@brave
is generously helping to amplify our videos’ reach with their
@brave
Ads + $BAT system.
As a baseline, they are running a test on our previous video, and will also run campaigns for our upcoming videos.
Fighting for privacy is best done together. Thank you
@lukemulks
🫡
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We’re so lucky to get to interview some of the minds behind
#Zcash
’s biggest upgrade that just launched 😇
✅End of Trusted Setup
✅Halo2 proofs
✅Unified Addresses
✅Auto-shielding
What aspect of the NU5 upgrade are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments 👇👇👇
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We shouldn’t have to give up custody to have privacy.
We shouldn’t have to give up privacy to have custody.
A private and decentralized digital currency like
@zcash
is the only way out of the custody-privacy dilemma besides physical cash.
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...And yes, even the mysterious John Dobbertin from the initial Trusted Setup.
We we all soon find out:
#WhoIsJohnDobbertin
?
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Ed is so great and gracious.
So thankful he allowed
#Zcash
to tell the world his role in the Ceremony.
If you’re at
#Consensus2022
check out the original video revealing his role here:
"I didn't profit from it.
I wasn't paid.
It wasn't a corporate thing.
I wasn't sponsored.
I didn't have a stake.
I wasn't cut in on this.
The idea was can we try to make the Zcash $ZEC system better. It felt good to contribute."
-
@Snowden
at
#Consensus2022
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Google and Facebook Did Something No One Had Done Before
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We devoted ourselves to making
#Zcash
educational content because we believe in the absolute need for privacy in cryptocurrency for user security, free trade, and a free society.
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Here’s a clip from our first video that defines Zero-Knowledge Proofs and shows how they allow private txns in
@zcash
.
Fun fact, Satoshi Nakamoto brought up using ZKPs in
#Bitcoin
in 2010!
Zero-Knowledge Proofs are the magic mathematical technique that allow
#Zcash
txns to be fully encrypted while still proving to the world the correctness of the txn:
1. Sender’s money exists
2. Sender is authorized to send
3. Input and Output Match
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Tomorrow, April 22 at 11amPST, join us on YouTube for a premiere video. It'll also drop on Odysee at the same time.
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During our research on privacy, we noticed that in some cases, Republicans and Democrats who usually don't agree on anything, actually agree that privacy is important.
For instance, at the TikTok hearing last year politicians from both sides of the aisle came together to
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The way you build systems matters.
Chris Burniske (
@cburniske
), partner at
@placeholdervc
and
#Cryptoassets
author, helped explain the construction of new blockchain-based infrastructure in our digital lives.
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TGIF y'all. We know it's been a tough week for crypto.
Our heart goes out to everyone affected by the $UST/$Luna collapse.
It can be in times like these that question our belief in what we are all doing here.
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Update from
@Brave
on their effort to help audiences find our content.
1.24 million is a *lot* of impressions! Very powerful tool.
UPDATE - Wrap-up on Phase 1
@Brave
Ads + $BAT Pilot test with
@zcashmedia
Total impressions served: 1.24 million
Total clicks: 39.5K
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.
@valkenburgh
outlines the important history of the battle between privacy, technology, and the law - and its relationship to crypto - in front of Congress.
Classic Supreme Court cases like Olmstead, Katz, and Miller are milestones in this battle.
To learn more about this
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A little more
#BehindTheScenes
... This time: behind the camera! 🎥
This is the view from the Cinematographers eye for
@Zooko
's wide shot (each in-person interview has at least two cameras - close-up and wide). Checking some messages (probably Twitter🙃) between takes!
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@ZcashFoundation
board member
@AmberBaldet
describes why
#Zcash
chose to focus on privacy "on-chain".
Privacy is necessary at the foundation of Zcash - because once someone's personal information is leaked, it's nearly impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.
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We’ve been stopping and thinking a lot
@zcashmedia
recently about the vision for Zcash and how this diverse community may have equally diverse views about the vision for
#Zcash
.
We’d really love to hear directly from folks:
What is *Your Vision* for Zcash?
Tell us below! 👇
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We made our
@free2zcash
page!
Free2z is a recently started crowdfunding platform (similar to GoFundMe, Kickstarter, etc.) that utilizes the
@zcash
blockchain for cheap and convenient crowdfunding - without a central intermediary.
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If you follow
@durumcrustulum
of
@ZcashFoundation
, it’s pretty clear she wouldn’t be working on
@Zcash
if it weren’t the real deal.
“Zcash is … the most concretely constructed, secure, and private instantiation that’s out there.”
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Our videos are 100% funded by the
#Zcash
development fund,
@ZcashCommGrants
- one of the most forward thinking mechanisms in crypto today to fund public goods - like education!
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When Will People Care About Privacy?
@michlai007
/
@ElectricCoinCo
Board of Directors
#zcash
#crypto
#blockchain
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Only Zcash can have “Zcash-level privacy”.
Privacy is not just a technology problem, it is a coordination problem. Without participation from many people in the same system, the “safety-in-numbers” principle does not apply. So even if “Privacy Protocol X” uses the exact same
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We’re building a library of videos to explain the importance of core principles, like privacy, to the coming decentralized, digital economy and why $zec plays a huge role in this future.
And maybe one day, a video of ours could be in this list 😇
1/ In bear markets, it's crucial to remember why you're building.
I'd recommend reading the classics this week.
Here's a running list of my all-time favorites 🧵
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What changed?
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We are a team of filmmakers, writers, scientists, and marketing experts powered by production house
@37lainesfilm
whose mission is to create and distribute documentary-style educational content on
@Zcash
and related technologies.
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STOP and THINK 🤔 🤔
What really happens if cash were to disappear? An intermediary would have to give permission for EVERY txn.
It would be like having an authority check everything you say to make sure it follows their rules.
@valkenburgh
of
@ZcashFoundation
understands.
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“Upcoming shielded Zcash in
@brave
wallet, decentralized swaps with
@Maya_Protocol
, payments integration, fast shielded mobile wallets, halving, and you’re selling?”
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We'll also talk about our next video coming out this week "The End of Zcash's Trusted Setup:
#WhoIsJohnDobbertin
?"
Attendees will be given a little advanced information about the upcoming video, so don't miss it! 😉
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