Ryan Sean Adams

And the reason they oppose it, I think, is mimetic, mimetic warfare.

It's because they say Zcash being encrypted Bitcoin is the winning meme.

And at least for now, having the winning meme is the most important strategy.

So we shouldn't add proof of stake because proof of stake is like anathema.

It's like kryptonite.

It's like the very opposite of Bitcoin, which is a good argument.

So I'm trying some jujitsu over here in my corner, which is, yes, you're right.

Crypto Bitcoin is a great meme.

And this crosslink thing, I'm going to stop describing it as proof of stake because it's not.

It's not switching.

Okay, this cross-link thing, I'm going to describe it as strengthening the 21 million cap.

There's these things that we've been doing at Shielded Labs, which are kind of all pointed in the same direction.

They're all pretty nuanced technological things, but they all point in the same direction, which is like sustainability and like robustness, resilience, and in particular, the sustainability and the resilience of the 21 million cap.

So if we get that accepted by a sufficiently large company

consensus of Zcashers, then Zcash will have this unique thing, which I love, which is it's encrypted Bitcoin.

It has Bitcoin's 21 million cap.

But unlike Bitcoin, it's credibly sustainable.

Everyone who investigates will say, yes, I can see how that 21 million cap will endure for the foreseeable future.

Whereas if you look closely at Bitcoin, it is unclear how that 21 million cap is going to stay in place.

I'm wearing a shirt with some symbols on it, and I think they spell Anoma.