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Newest episode · S17 E49 · 1 Nov 2026

Kris Nuttycombe on Zcash at Ten, Hard Forks, the Dev Fund & Why Ossification Is Death

Kris Nuttycombe of ZODL at Zcon7 for Zcash's 10th birthday: hard forks as a superpower, freezing Sprout, NU7, Tachyon, the Dev Fund, mining as arbitrage, testnet forks of mainnet, AI money and why ossification is death.

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