Can Zcash Make Privacy Normal?
A coin built for the shadows is scaling into the light.
Josh Swihart has spent the better part of a decade on Zcash, first at the Electric Coin Company (ECC), i.e. the closest thing the project has to an Ethereum Foundation, and now at the spun-out Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL).
His read on today's stakes for crypto is stark: without private money on the internet, we will veer into economic dystopia.
That said, Zcash is awake again and heating up once more after years in the doldrums, primed anew for the demands of the times. The share of ZEC sitting in private storage has roughly tripled since early 2024, and the price has followed suit. Even Naval has chimed in with a new framing that Bitcoin hedges the dollar while Zcash hedges Bitcoin.
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William M. Peaster
William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he covers the onchain frontier with a particular interest in art, games, and other culture apps. He has a background in creative writing and writes fiction in his free time.
