This is Zcash Founder btw Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Satoshi Nakamoto literally cites Zooko's blog on decentrailzed money on Bitcoin's first webpage
Satoshi was looking for a way of zero-knowledge-proofs and this is exactly what zcash:native solves!
ZEC going from $0 to $17bn in less than a decade is important, because Zcash is important for society. A civilization requires three coordination primitives to survive and prosper: communication, computation, and money. Zcash is money. Money for an infinite civilization.