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Daira-Emma Hopwood on Zcash at 10, Halo & the Future of Private Money @nuttycom (Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S17 E50) x.com/i/broadcasts/2…

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Bitcoin Takeover (BTCTKVR.com) Verified account @BTCTKVR · Nov 2

A new episode is here!

The guest is @nuttycom from @zodl_app, discussing Zcash Development and Why Ossification is Death!

Some of the highlights of the episode.

Zcash Upgrades🎆

Zcash shipped three upgrades this year: a critical bug fix, a formally verified new shielded pool, and NU7, which cuts block time from 75 to 25 seconds.

Kris expects that pace to continue, with Tachyon still to come.

Hard Forks🍴

Regular forks let Zcash make clean engineering choices instead of shoehorning changes in. Kris rejects the idea that they're centralizing, because anyone can refuse to upgrade, every upgrade so far has had full consensus, and disputes are settled before any code ships.

Ossification is death☠️

Asking when Zcash will be done is like asking when Amazon will be done, because "software is only complete if nobody's using it." He sees Bitcoin's refusal to change as its biggest risk

This is the tip of the iceberg on what is an in depth discussion on all the topics that we know you would want to hear.

youtube.com/live/G_x8hNV67…

zcash:native

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Bitcoin Takeover (BTCTKVR.com) Verified account @BTCTKVR · Nov 2

A new episode is here!

The guest is @nuttycom from @zodl_app, discussing Zcash Development and Why Ossification is Death!

Some of the highlights of the episode.

Zcash Upgrades🎆

Zcash shipped three upgrades this year: a critical bug fix, a formally verified new shielded pool, and NU7, which cuts block time from 75 to 25 seconds.

Kris expects that pace to continue, with Tachyon still to come.

Hard Forks🍴

Regular forks let Zcash make clean engineering choices instead of shoehorning changes in. Kris rejects the idea that they're centralizing, because anyone can refuse to upgrade, every upgrade so far has had full consensus, and disputes are settled before any code ships.

Ossification is death☠️

Asking when Zcash will be done is like asking when Amazon will be done, because "software is only complete if nobody's using it." He sees Bitcoin's refusal to change as its biggest risk

This is the tip of the iceberg on what is an in depth discussion on all the topics that we know you would want to hear.

youtube.com/live/G_x8hNV67…

zcash:native

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Bitcoin Takeover (BTCTKVR.com) Verified account @BTCTKVR · 2d

A new episode is here.

Daira-Emma Hopwood on Zcash at 10, Halo and the Future of Private Money

Daira-Emma Hopwood is a cryptographer and protocol engineer who has worked on Zcash for 11 years, since before its 2016 launch. Daira is the lead author of the Zcash Protocol Specification. With @ebfull and Jack Grigg, Daira co-wrote the Halo paper, whose work led to Orchard needing no trusted setup.

Daira is now Head of Research and Assurance at @zodl_app, the lab the whole ECC team started after resigning, and was a factory control engineer before crypto.

The following topics are just some of the gems in the full episode.

🛰️Crosslink and the limits of pure proof of work

Daira designs "with long-term" in mind and sees today's spread of hash rate across pools as temporary.

🛰️Leaving Bitcoin's codebase behind

Daira calls retiring zcashd "a relief." The team forked Bitcoin "without really knowing much about Bitcoin," and the protocol still shows the seams of that. NU7 also plans faster blocks and limits on how much work each block needs to verify.

🛰️Self-custody after the hardware-wallet hacks

Buy hardware wallets in person, since the Ledger chip attack happened during shipping

This and much more in the full episode!

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