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Social•Dec 16, 2025
Private Digital Cash: An Urgent Humanitarian Necessity
Private digital cash is an urgent and humanitarian need, by @AlexBornstein3: https://t.co/DqTs8TsT2H https://t.co/wkpYYs98Gx
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Dec 15, 2025
New Site Promotes Zcash Crosslink Upgrade Proposal
Slick web site advocating for the Crosslink proposed upgrade for Zcash: https://t.co/CGpSrxcbLG Web site by @the_anino_group . Crosslink proposal by @ShieldedLabs .
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Dec 14, 2025
Brief Zcash Talk at SEC, Dreaming of Colorado
Heading out to the airport to fly to Washington DC to give a very brief, 10-minute, talk about Zcash at the SEC. I’m grateful for the opportunity, but I’m already looking forward to being back home in Colorado. https://t.co/5hXkmx0uMp
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Dec 9, 2025
Joining Cypherpunk to Empower Personal Money Control
I’m happy to report that I’ve been invited to join Cypherpunk as an advisor. I’m joining because I trust Tyler and Cameron’s intentions: empower people to control their own money (Zcash). ⤵️
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Dec 7, 2025
Anoma Launches First Ethereum Adapter, Sparking Intrigue
I’m excited about Anoma again now that they’ve deployed their first “adapter” on Ethereum. I haven’t really grokked this “Anoma Resource Machine” model yet, but knowing the team, I’ll bet it really offers the cool properties that they are claiming.
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Shielded Labs' Vision: Security, Decentralized Governance, Product Development
Recording of the most recent Shielded Labs Crosslink workshop: https://t.co/zyYeSOWvpR I really liked Nate's intro (14 minutes long), which is about how we at Shielded Labs think about security engineering, decentralized cryptocorrency governance, and product development. :-)
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Seeking Zcash Grants Livestream Access and Timing
hey does anybody know how to tune in to the zcash community grants candidate livestream? is it happening now? thx
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Zcash’s Resilient, Diverse Governance Unites Despite Disagreements
Zcash has evolved a resilient governance system over many years, made up thoughtful and independent people who disagree with each other but are committed to the same mission. Read this in its entirety, and vote for Artkor! https://t.co/UXIOe9fNH4
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 20, 2025
American Donates Zcash to Promote Crypto Freedom
Zcash is global but I am an American. This is a set of principled and actionable steps that I can get behind. It’s about restoring American values like freedom, fairness, and competition to the American crypto industry. And, I trust...
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Zfnd Secures 7-Year Runway with Transparent Management
Nice. Way to go, Zfnd, on keeping a 7-year runway (assuming the price of ZEC stays at its current level), and on practicing excellent transparency. @AlexBornstein3 https://t.co/7jNw8JGmLs
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Zcash's 5‑person Committee Controls 8% of Issuance
This is important! There are two parts to how the Zcash community governs the use of Dev Funds money. This is one of them: a 5-person committee that decides how to spend 8% of the Zcash issuance. Please read.
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 17, 2025
NEAR and Zashi Simplify Secure ZEC Swaps
Kudos to the NEAR and Zashi teams for each doing their part of the engineering to enable easier, safer swaps to ZEC!
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Will ZEC Votes and Grants Surpass Minimum Targets?
This is important! Will more than the minimum requirement of 420,000 ZEC vote in the poll? Will more than $5,000,000 worth of ZEC be paid out from the Zcash Lockbox in retroactive grants to people who have already contributed? https://t.co/kD8s9WMGLQ
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 16, 2025
All‑time Market Cap, Not Price, Reveals True Trends
Zoom out—market cap (not price), and over all time (not any narrower time window): https://t.co/Rn8SX20Izn https://t.co/AfdfiatXka
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 12, 2025
Need a Champion to Push Binius ASIC Integration
waaaah noooo. Who is going to maintain and improve binius with hardware+cryptography co-design? And get binius ASICs included in new CPUs/GPUs? 😭 Thanks for MIT'ing it, @jimpo_potamus. Do you have any other IP you can sell to a company to...
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 12, 2025
Anticipating Arkham's Zcash Integration for Treasury Transparency
https://t.co/oIMOsRq9Lr Looking forward to @arkham adding Zcash support so that it can track @cypherpunktech's Zcash treasury. :-) https://t.co/22h0ox3lCo
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 12, 2025
Zcash: The Only Way Money Is Truly Separate From State
Tyler Winklevoss just said something awesome about "Separating Money and State". Something like "Have we really done that? And the answer is no, unless you're using Zcash". 👍👍
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 11, 2025
Zcash’s Surge Fueled by Bitcoin‑Like Fixed Supply
I agree with all of the reasons Alex gives in this thread for Zcash’s meteoric rise. And I think there is one more: the irresistibly tightening supply as Zcash follows the Bitcoin issuance schedule. Only 21M ZEC will ever exist....
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 10, 2025
Vote Zcash Retroactive Grants – Register Anonymously Today
Use your Zcash coins to vote for which people/orgs deserve *retroactive grants* for their contributions to Zcash! You have to register to vote today! (Voting is 100% anonymous and on-chain!)
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Nov 10, 2025
Users Trust Existing Apps Over New Installations
Really interesting UX/marketing/distribution data point. I sympathize with not wanting to install another app! Installed apps are close to my root of trust.
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn