Every clan in the Sengoku era in Japan left records. Rosters, deeds, who served whom.
Iga Province left almost nothing. Four hundred years on, historians still argue about who was in the valley.
That wasn't an accident.
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A name written down is a name that can be taken.
The warlord Nobunaga could burn a valley. He couldn't hunt people whose names were never written down. Iga Province kept no roster, and the ones who walked out of the fire walked out unrecorded.
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Most chains are a list.
Every wallet, every payment, forever, readable by anyone. The most complete roster ever built. Iga would have lasted one season on it.
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Zcash took the other road. The network can verify that money moved and that nobody counterfeited it, and it learns nothing else. Not who, not how much.
The proof exists. The record doesn't. That's the Iga arrangement, in code.
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This is why the mark is 零.
Thousands passed the gate. None were counted. Zero names while the craft still survived.
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The dojo has been shut for four hundred years. It's open again, on the one chain that would have kept Iga alive.
zeroninjas.com
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