./@cypherpunk is a privacy company. Until today, we bought Zcash. Now we mine it. Buying Zcash means owning more of the network. Mining Zcash means making the network more secure and harder to attack — more hashrate means more security and a more secure Zcash makes every coin in our treasury more valuable. Most Zcash miners sell everything they mine and stay out of governance. As the largest corporate holder of Zcash, we have every reason not to. Our incentives and the network's incentives are the same. Cypherpunk holds Zcash. Now Cypherpunk mines Zcash. Onward.

RT @zooko: I love this. A big request to the fledgling Coin-Holder-Directed Retroactive Grants fund! And if you, like me, love infosec war…

Tried to figure out Crosslink. The TLDR for ZEC: - you'll be able to stake ZEC - you'll earn yield while keeping your privacy - your funds stay liquid, you can unstake in about a week - ZEC becomes a working asset, not just a store Crosslink adds Proof-of-Stake to Zcash without removing Proof-of-Work. The miners stay. The network adds a second layer of security and a new way for holders to participate. If you hold ZEC, you can lock some of it and assign it to a validator (called a "finalizer"). They confirm blocks. You earn a share of new ZEC issuance for delegating to them. Where the yield comes from: every Zcash block creates new ZEC. Today miners get 80% of it. After Crosslink, roughly 40% reroutes to stakers. The network pays you in ZEC for helping secure it. The same way Ethereum or Solana pays validators, just new for Zcash. What makes it different: privacy. On other chains, your stake amount and your validator choice are public. On Zcash, stakes are denominated in fixed buckets, 1, 10, or 100 ZEC, so your specific position cannot be tracked. The transactions live inside Zcash's shielded pool. You earn yield without exposing your wallet history. This unlocks something no privacy chain has had before: a native, private, yield-bearing asset. Not a wrapped version. Not a bridge-out-and-restake hack. ZEC, staking on its own chain, with shielding intact. Bonus: stronger finality. Once stakers finalize a block, it cannot be reversed, even if miners try a 51% attack. This makes ZEC stronger collateral for bridges and easier to list on exchanges. Status: prototype on github, incentivized testnet running. ZEC stops being a savings account and becomes infrastructure. Will you stake?

I don't remember where I found this, but its spot on.

$ZEC is now available to trade on Robinhood Crypto, including NY.

Zcash $ZEC has matured into an institutional-grade asset, and the mining infrastructure should match. Today we announced Foundry's Zcash Mining Pool, launching April 2026. Compliance-first, institutional-grade infrastructure built by the team behind the world's #1 Bitcoin mining pool, coming to one of the most important privacy-preserving networks in the industry. 🔗Read the full press release here: businesswire.com/news/home/2…

If you want to understand the ZECBTC chart, it's pretty simple. Bitcoin is caught flat-footed on two related issues: privacy and post-quantum security. The store of value proposition is very sensitive to both, but Bitcoin has no plan for either. Essentially, they will need (recursive) SNARKs, based on post-quantum hash or lattice-based assumptions, merely in order to deal with the *scaling challenges* of the much larger post-quantum signatures. That's just the bare minimum. The kinds of architectural changes needed to integrate all this stuff are beyond what they've ever shipped in Bitcoin's history. I think they will try, because there's so much money involved, but there's no way they can address privacy at the same time. What's likely to happen is that a consortium of Bitcoin stakeholders (cryptographers, developers, miners, wallets, etc.) will announce a massive effort to address the quantum threat. This will mostly be a response to the one-bit market feedback loop that Bitcoiners actually internalize: number go down. That feedback loop will not communicate the serious competitive risk of Bitcoin's non-existing privacy until it's too late. Contrast this with Zcash: we've been planning for a quantum apocalypse in both privacy and soundness for a decade. Most of our protocol design discussions are public: you can see for yourself! Our cryptography does not need to be upgraded to be post-quantum private; just an *out-of-band* payment protocol. Our protocol doesn't need to be upgraded to have quantum robustness; just changes to how wallets choose random blinding factors. After the Tachyon upgrade, our architecture won't even need to change for post-quantum soundness; some folding schemes will just need to be swapped out, and we have years to select the best one.

We are committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Our Q3 2025 report provides an overview of the work undertaken by our engineering team, as well as other key activities. zfnd.org/the-zcash-foundatio…

the greatest description of "wealth" articulated is by Deutsch wealth is the set of things you can make happen obviously money can make a lot happen, but it is limited by knowledge, will, and circumstance socialists fatally conflate wealth with money and that's their mistake

Zcash $ZEC to shorters

announcing the judges for the zcash zypherpunk hackathon - cobie - toly - balaji - eli - zooko - sean bowe - imran khan (alliance dao) - me come build cypherpunk systems, start a startup, and make everlasting impact sponsors apply below — hackathon starts on the 10th

If it starts with the word “public,” it’s probably in decay.

Satoshi's Last Wish - The Full Story 00:00 Intro 00:41 Before Bitcoin: The Failure of DigiCash 01:37 The 12-Year Struggle: Cypherpunks vs. The Centralization Problem 03:01 Enter Bitcoin: Satoshi’s Proposed Solution To The Centralization Problem 05:20 Early Days: Bitcoin’s First Blogpost & Satoshi’s Webpage 10:07 Bitcoin’s Major Flaw: The Second Problem Satoshi Wanted to Solve 12:31 Satoshi Proposes A Solution To Bitcoin’s Privacy Problem 14:03 What Did Satoshi Mean By A More Useable Version of Bitcoin? 17:20 Passing The Torch: Solving What Satoshi Couldn’t

wait this video is insane lmao? didn't know half of this shit i) zooko wrote the first BTC blog and was cited by Satoshi? ii) was working on the idea before Bitcoin (??) iii) him, satoshi, and hal were all trying to work on privacy?? wtf

SHIB, XMR, and ZEC walk into a bar. Bartender: “IDs, please.” SHIB hands over his real ID. XMR gives his real ID and 15 fake ones. ZEC doesn’t show anything and just gets a drink.

RT @zooko: Dear all Zcashers: please notice how the turnstile that we designed in 2016 as an added layer of defense is literally saving our…

announcing the first-ever Zypherpunk Hackathon for Zcash what: build cool shit, win cash, start startups where: online when: Nov 10 - Dec 1 what's next: we need sponsors! to sponsor, click the link in the next tweet for builders, no action; just brainstorm until the 10th