My first interview with Josh Swihart, founder and CEO of Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL).
0:00 Intro
0:45 Zcash was objectively dying
3:36 What revived Zcash
7:11 Swaps: the killer feature
8:41 What was broken at ECC
10:54 A dev fund that looks like a government
11:30 The fork excuse
12:20 Why ECC went for-profit
13:34 Balaji: too big to kill
16:05 Zodl's roadmap
16:44 The parallel polis
18:25 Building a parallel financial system
19:10 Seed phrases are antiquated
21:57 Desktop wallet, multisig & time locks
24:50 Bitcoin has been captured
26:21 Bitcoiners hedging into Zcash
27:00 How Zcash avoids capture
29:25 Do ETFs matter?
30:25 The biggest Bitcoin maximalist lie
31:58 Bitcoin's quantum problem
34:35 Peter Todd and the soundness bug
36:35 Will Zcash overtake Bitcoin?
37:23 Zcash in the hands of billions
37:39 Store of value vs. currency
38:43 Should the transparent pool die?
41:19 Exchanges have no excuse (Gemini vs. Coinbase)
44:00 Quantum recoverability & the post-quantum roadmap
45:58 The most secure place to store funds
46:19 Tap-to-pay, Flexa & CrossPay
49:08 Stablecoins as the Trojan horse
49:52 Outro