Core Idea - The Cypherpunks' vision of individual freedom through code and cryptography is being realized [1] - Encrypted, unruggable money represents the final step in achieving this freedom [1] Technological Implementation - The initial focus was on encrypting text and data on the internet [1]

🇪🇺 UPDATE: The EU’s vision; scan first, encrypt later.Supporters call it safety; opponents call it mass surveillance that risks undermining encryption and digital trust. https://t.co/cNkMtJxVm9 ...

WhatsApp is enabling users to encrypt their backup using passkeys https://t.co/WlR9eVbBqq ...

crypto x AI is going to start to get very insane, especially around privacy, sleuthing, and forensicssleuthing is an extremely manual process that requires a ton of attention to detail, context, and stitching together different piecesthis is a perfect set of tasks for an AI to abstract and automatewith X, everyone became a citizen journalistwith Orb, everyone will become a citizen financial detectivewe added a basic "Explain w AI" function to Orb for transactions that can detect previously unreadable transa ...

Financial Security Concerns - Individuals' money, including cryptocurrency, may not be entirely secure [1] - Cryptocurrency traceability raises potential security issues, suggesting a need for encryption [1] Geopolitical and Banking Risks - Banco Sabadell in Spain faces accusations of discrimination against Israeli clients due to a new royal decree related to the "genocide in Gaza" [1] - Israeli clients in Spain report frozen bank accounts, potentially linked to business ties with specific regions [1]

ZEC is the one coin I've seen where people from all chains feel good about supporting without getting 0 sumSOL, ETH, Cosmos, real Bitcoin people (not the new derps who've compromised on ideals), and even some HyperliquidPrivacy is the last remaining PvEencrypt everything ...

RT genzcash (@genzcash).@0xMert_: “With Monero, you’re introducing probabilistic decoys to the process. It’s like that game where there’s 3 cups and there’s a ball in one of them and you move them around.With Monero, it’s basically that game but it’s 16 cups. And so you’re obfuscating what’s happening. But you can imagine, as computers get stronger—and by the way, this is already possible—you’ll actually be able to deanonymize the entire history of that chain of events.Versus with something like Zcash, ther ...

RT genzcash (@genzcash).@0xMert_: “Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin. It has the same tokenomics. You have four posts of Satoshi and Hal Finney saying things like, ‘If we knew how to add ZK proofs to Bitcoin, it would make it a better Bitcoin.’” https://t.co/u3gzlTxZW0 ...

in the future, almost all blockchains will be encrypted by defaultthe era of doxed ledgers will be funny to look back onzcashhttps://t.co/8eee6bNvammert | helius.dev (@0xMert_):within 15 or so yearsmost blockchain ledgers will be encryptedwe will look back on the era of unencrypted, public blockchains as a bugassuming FHE and ZK make exponential increases in latency, I don't see how this doesn't happenonly exception is HFT-type chains ...

Data Privacy & Security - Encryption strategy should differentiate between public aggregates and private individual data [1] - The industry acknowledges the need for nuanced encryption, avoiding blanket application [1] Market Commentary & Motivation - The author suggests that controversial statements are used to increase visibility and potentially generate revenue [1] - The author implies that increased visibility and revenue could be used to support Zcash (ZEC) [1] - The author frames their actions as a defense against negative outcomes [1]