Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
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Kris Nuttycombe on Zcash at Ten, Hard Forks, the Dev Fund & Why Ossification Is Death
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00:00 Intro & sponsors
02:09 Kris's second appearance
02:51 ZEC from $38 to $1,250
03:57 Zcon vs Bitcoin conferences
06:29 Privacy for refugees
07:42 NU7 & 25-second blocks
09:04 Why Zcash matters to Bitcoiners
12:12 Satoshi & zero-knowledge proofs
13:57 Hard forks as a superpower
19:32 Fungible internet money
21:56 Zcon7 impressions
24:27 ZEC flips Dogecoin
27:37 NEAR Intents & privacy at rest
30:33 Paying Visa merchants with shielded ZEC
33:43 A pluralism of currencies
34:19 Cake Wallet & Zcash Names
36:39 Unified addresses rant
41:35 The ceremony laptop & Zooko's CPU
42:06 Kris's story: Zooko & Tahoe-LAFS
44:22 Is Zooko Satoshi?
48:59 Sprout and the inflation bug
53:38 26,000 unclaimed ZEC
55:38 Q-Day & lost coins
59:21 Ironwood & formal verification with AI
1:03:31 The eCash hard fork
1:04:14 Dandelion++ & positive-sum thinking
1:07:04 Bitcoin dominance at 60%
1:09:10 Stablecoins are wrapped fiat
1:15:45 Are Zcash miners being phased out?
1:16:27 Crosslink: hybrid PoW/PoS
1:20:23 Kris's work at ZODL
1:22:25 ZIP 318 & Tachyon
1:25:26 Why Kris stayed with Zcash
1:29:39 Can Zcash ossify?
1:33:59 The currency of AI
1:40:23 Bitcoin layer 2s
1:42:10 Ossification is death
1:43:36 Saylor, covenants & 2106
1:46:57 Day two: Zebend
1:49:15 Zcash Community Grants & the Dev Fund
1:50:52 The Equihash ASIC "extinction event"
1:54:00 Security is not a market
1:58:12 Hashrate distribution
2:00:33 Proof of work & the labor theory of value
2:04:54 Hashrate as a finality gadget
2:06:25 Friendly forks & testnets
2:09:53 All value is social
2:12:31 Death by a thousand forks?
2:17:12 What if Zcash forked Bitcoin?
2:19:13 Zcash's next 10 years
2:21:44 Seed phrases & BIP39
2:23:14 AI made software cheap
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