Lmao! Sad but true. The tech being used is well over a decade old.

I wonder who is behind this inorganic zcash pump. They have some deep pockets to get Chamath and Dalio on board. @Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast - if you think zcash is pumping because VCs and altcoiners care about privacy then you are goofball!

It's a deflection move. They can not have plebs discovering Minero/digital cash while in the midst of employing their digital prison

Main character syndrome, look it up. Zcash has been in development for a decade and now it’s finally ready for mainstream adoption. These big VCs are early investors and they onboarded their friends too. Also, the shielded adoption doesn’t lie. Zcash is happening, even Monero is upgrading to be more like Zcash with FCMP.

Of course, the VCs tell their buddies like all other pumpers. They like to shill their bags like everybody else. They like to have control over a project (like every other VC) instead of a community lead project. While we talk about a great number of projects everyday, the shillers never mention Monero and if they do it's never in a good light. That's intellect dishonest and you are a rare exception. If you think transaction data is organic you fell for the believable shill. It's extremely easy to fake and extremely hard to produce in a real setup. The best stats we have are from merchants and services that publish their BTC, XMR and ZEC stats. Personally I am not just seeking a private way to pay. For that I would use Zcash under certain conditions just like I use BTC. The value in any money that wants to compete with fiat is in the community. Monero people will tell you to look at long-term averages over short term price fluctuation. Wake me up when VC buy real products and produce real organic demand with it. I bet you they prefer the convenience of their credit card.

What has changed recently? I think the only thing that has changed is that VCs realize there is a sellable narrative and that they can pump zcash. You have been around long enough to see that so I can only guess that you have your own bags to unload. I'm not a Monero user but it is clear as day that Monero has an organic user base and zcash has no user base, only pumpers and dumpers. Where can you even spend zcash since it is so useful for... Something?

If you took the time to download a wallet, you would see that Zcash has DeFi integrations with NEAR Intents & Maya protocol. Basically you can send shielded ZEC and perform a swap within minutes, so you can pay anywhere BTC, USDT, or whatever other coin is accepted without revealing how many coins you have in your wallet. The receiver will see an incoming transaction from a DeFi liquidity pool, the DeFi service has no idea who you are and how many coins you own outside the ones you sent.

Then those real tx from ZEC should show up in rising real USDT or BTC tx on merchants websites. What shows up is rising domination of Monero. You don't need to show your coin holdings, but a dsiclaimer stating I own 30% ZEC, 30% BTC, 10% XMR, 10% LTC, 10% BCH and 10% others or what ever the real numbers are would increase trust in your impartiality as a citizen journalist.

How is that different than #Bitcoin swaps with Cake Wallet? You give away zcash on your podcast so you might be a little bias.

You have no sender or amount privacy in Bitcoin.

Look up Tachyon, it’s shipping this year on Zcash to bring very good scaling without the need for L2s. “Blockchains don’t scale” was valid a decade ago. Now we have better math and cryptography research.

You have sender privacy with Lightning. This feels like a solution looking for a problem. I don't believe that my atomic swap provider, @Boltz - Non-Custodial Bitcoin Exchange is maliciously recording all of my activity and they really can't record much anyway if I swap with Lightning. Also #Bitcoin is accepted natively at pretty much all crypto accepting stores so there is no need to perform a swap unless I want to for privacy reasons.

Lightning is not Bitcoin. And if you have more coins than the entire 5000 BTC that’s locked on Lightning, you have 0 privacy.

You have pretty much exposed yourself here. "Lightning is not Bitcoin" is a pretty well known altcoiner argument that is obviously false. I am able to unilaterally move my coins from a Lightning chanel to an on chain address as I see fit. How is that "not Bitcoin"? I think it's to change the name of your podcast to Altcoin Takeover.

Send me a cease and desist from the Bitcoin trademark holder

You are free to attempt to run a #Bitcoin affinity scam podcast by using the word Bitcoin while pumping zcash and other altcoins. Funnily enough, you could be sent a cease and desist letter if you changed your podcast name to Zcash Takeover.

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Zcash Foundation Enforces Trademark Against Small Domain, Sparking Community Debate

The Zcash Foundation has issued a cease and desist to Zcash Strategy, raising concerns about centralization in the community.

Lightning and Liquid give bitcoin the benefits of privacy without using shitcoins.

Wow, a tree fell in the woods, but no one was around to hear it. Bravo.

Damn that better math