I like when people disagree with each other in public, respectfully, and state their reasons. In this Zcash Community Grants call, Prabh gave his reasons for why he doesn't support removing transparency features from Zcash:
Check it out! $20k to implement the first shielded airdrop protocol! https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/status-update-rfc-zec-nam-shielded-airdrop-protocol/49144/20
If I understand correctly, you can now move any of these assets over IBC into the Namada shielded pool. Way to go, Anoma/Namada folks! Cool to see two of my other favorite projects in there, too: Nym and Penumbra. https://hackmd.io/@heliax/super-quick-guide-to-namada-cross-chain-shielding
I love me a Chipotle chicken bowl. And I like it even more when I pay with untraceable digital cash so that there is no record in any database or blockchain linking my chicken bowl back to my personal finances.
Hey, what is the best User Experience for delegating some of your crypto to earn rewards from staking? Any wallet, any blockchain--I just want to try out one or two of the best User Experiences! Thanks!
Enjoyed re-reading this long thread (beginning in 2017) where Daira-Emma Hopwood, Sean Bowe, Ariel Gabizon, HarryR, Dmitry Khovratovich, dice2-win, Tomer Ashur, Daniel Lubarov, and Weikeng Chen collaborated on the new secure hash functions like Poseidon. https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/2233
Wisdom from conversations with my gf: sports, politics, and crypto trading are zero-sum. If someone else does worse, you’re doing better. But the rest of life is positive-sum: if someone else does better, you’re doing better too.
KYC (“Know Your Customer”) laws impose huge costs and potentially devastating risks on law-abiding customers, while imposing no difficulty at all on criminals. You know how much it costs to buy an exchange or bank account on a dark market? Like $50.