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Ryan Sean Adams

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1143 total appearances

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

It's awesome.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

It's awesome.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

Totally works.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

And it works with anybody who accepts any cryptocurrency, even if they're all Bitcoin maxis or Ethereum only, or you can't figure out which L2 it's on or whatever.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

No, that's your problem.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

You just scan the QR code.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

You get to watch TV.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

So UX, UX first is working.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

And that's the subtle nuance.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

Interesting distinction is,

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

between that and something that you kind of said earlier, Ryan, which was you said something, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but a lot of people out there think of something which is totally wrong technically, which is I've got my value at rest over here where potentially bad guys like my enemies or

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

advertisers or the IRS or somebody might be able to watch this money, this pile of money.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

And I want to have my money over here, like, I don't know, pay ProtonMail or something.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

And so now I need a process or a service or technology to break the link in the middle.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

That's like a very common link.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

99% of people

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

This is the paradigm that they assume is the only possible paradigm for privacy.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

Now, it can never, never work for a simple reason that I can explain.

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

The IRS or the AIs or the North Korean hackers who are watching this pile over here

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

When you do this process, they see that you touched the pile of somebody, something happened to the pile over here, right?