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S17 E49 · 2:23:42 · 1 Nov 2026

S17 E49: Kris Nuttycombe on Zcash at Ten, Hard Forks, the Dev Fund & Why Ossification Is Death

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Season 17 BTCTKVR Podcast cover: the show mascot and a bald, bearded Kris Nuttycombe avatar wearing a Zcash pendant, facing each other in front of a gothic castle at night with glowing windows.
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Read the article: S17 E49: Kris Nuttycombe (Zcash at Ten, Hard Forks, Dev Fund, Ossification)

Kris Nuttycombe of the Zcash Open Development Lab came back to the show two years after his first visit, this time on a hotel sofa at Zcon7 in Cancun, on the last day of the conference and around Zcash's tenth birthday.

We cover the price move and the Binance hack that was unfolding while we spoke, Zcash as what Bitcoin could have been, hard forks as a superpower, the end of Sprout and the inflation bug, Ironwood and formal verification, Crosslink and hybrid proof of work, ZIP 318 and Tachyon, the Dev Fund and Zcash Community Grants, the Equihash ASIC extinction event, and why ossification is death.

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