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RT Gareth Jenkinson (@gazza_jenks)Did you know that Zcash was entirely inspired by Bitcoin?In 2014, @EliBenSasson and his co-authors published 'Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin.'But why didn't Eli and @zooko build a privacy protocol ON Bitcoin? Here's the real story behind Zcash 🤔👇From 2008, Ben-Sasson and his collaborators had been working on general-purpose zero-knowledge proof technology. While they didn't have a use case, they knew the technology was incredibly powerful."We knew z ...