Co-Founder @gemini, @cypherpunk, @winklevosscap Vocals @marsjunction
New York, NY
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Privacy is the precondition for many of our freedoms. It’s the point at which government and corporate reach end and our individual freedoms and self-sovereignty begin. As our lives have moved online, privacy’s become a rare, vanishing commodity.
That’s why we founded Cypherpunk (@cypherpunktech) — a company dedicated to privacy and self-sovereignty. We will execute on our mission by accumulating, building, and supporting privacy-protecting assets and technologies at a time when the world needs them more than ever.
To that end, Cypherpunk — Ticker: $LPTX (today), $CYPH (tomorrow) — was launched with a $50 million+ investment from @winklevosscap to begin accumulating Zcash ($ZEC) at what we believe to be a significant discount to Zcash’s true long-term value. Cypherpunk currently holds 203,775 ZEC purchased at an average price of ~$245 per coin, representing ~1.25% of the current ZEC supply. We plan to continue accumulating ZEC rapidly so that Cypherpunk owns at least 5% of the total ZEC supply.
Since Zcash’s launch 9 years ago, we’ve observed its highly symbiotic relationship with bitcoin. Zcash is a fork of Bitcoin and shares identical tokenomics — both have a fixed total supply of 21 million coins. If bitcoin is digital gold, Zcash is encrypted bitcoin, or digital cash. One is your store of value, the other is how you privately move your value. We’ve been tracking this symbiosis for years and believe that now — as we enter the age of AI — is the right time to begin accumulating ZEC.
We feel strongly that Zcash could become a meaningful percentage of Bitcoin’s market capitalization — just on the merits of it being a privacy hedge or insurance policy to Bitcoin’s transparency alone. We believe bitcoin will continue to ascend to $1,000,000 per coin over the next 5-10 years. We also believe Zcash will appreciate significantly from here as well. These coins go hand in hand.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll continue to lay out our thesis. In the meantime, we’re excited to have you join us as we stack zats and invest in other technologies that promote privacy and self-sovereignty. Let us proceed together apace.
Onward.
The communists want to destroy election integrity by legalizing voter fraud. Vote ‘Yes’ on Prop 39 on November 3rd in order to require voters in California to present photo ID to vote. This is common sense and any other position is indefensible.
Prop 39 released a new ad today highlighting what politicians don’t want you to know: California is one of a handful of states that don’t require a photo ID to vote.
Prop 39 is a battle of politicians versus people.
Politicians want you to vote no.
The People are voting yes.
This ad is a parody, but the problem is not.
The politicians want to protect their power and money. We want to give it back to you.
Vote Yes on Prop 39.
Donate: efundraisingconnections.com/…
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Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
Zcash is not a trade, but it is the hedge to AI.
@tyler on Zcash and AI:
"I would never consider Zcash a trade. But it is the other side of the AI coin.
The more parabolic and meteoric the rise of AI, the more scarce an asset privacy is going to become."
The Founding Fathers would have owned Zcash. It's American values and the Bill of Rights encoded into money. 🇺🇸
Tyler Winklevoss retweeted
Zcash is a technology that preserves and expands human rights. It protects your financial privacy in the age of AI — the antidote to AI-fueled surveillance and tyranny.
My first interview with @cameron and @tyler.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold
1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
2:28 The first internet-native money
3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
4:47 Money has always been private
5:31 The true separation of money and state
6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants
9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years
11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles
13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
16:04 Gold is abundant in space
17:27 Why start Cypherpunk
19:05 The coming war on privacy
19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance
22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains
25:10 “I have nothing to hide”
27:11 Einstein at the patent office
29:14 Self-censorship in academia
29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
30:41 Outro
Tyler Winklevoss retweeted
My first interview with @cameron and @tyler.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold
1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
2:28 The first internet-native money
3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
4:47 Money has always been private
5:31 The true separation of money and state
6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants
9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years
11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles
13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
16:04 Gold is abundant in space
17:27 Why start Cypherpunk
19:05 The coming war on privacy
19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance
22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains
25:10 “I have nothing to hide”
27:11 Einstein at the patent office
29:14 Self-censorship in academia
29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
30:41 Outro
A discussion on Zcash, privacy, and the separation of money and state.
My first interview with @cameron and @tyler.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold
1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
2:28 The first internet-native money
3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
4:47 Money has always been private
5:31 The true separation of money and state
6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants
9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years
11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles
13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
16:04 Gold is abundant in space
17:27 Why start Cypherpunk
19:05 The coming war on privacy
19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance
22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains
25:10 “I have nothing to hide”
27:11 Einstein at the patent office
29:14 Self-censorship in academia
29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
30:41 Outro
privacy is a human right
Tyler Winklevoss explains why he believes privacy is a fundamental human right
“I see privacy as the boundary where government stops and your freedom and self-sovereignty begins. So it's this really important boundary”
“We have this enshrined with the Fourth Amendment, to some extent the Second Amendment and encryption is a peaceful, nonviolent Second Amendment that protects you and your space and your privacy”
“Government tends to go just one way like more surveillance, more trampling on your rights, more coercion, more violence”
“This is a mathematical way to stop that and to stifle that and really uphold the American values and ethos in our Constitution”
“Privacy is a human right”
Staking 2.0 @Gemini
TL;DR:
-designed to meet customer demand for more staking assets while keeping reliability at the center of our mission. @HyperliquidX became our 4th supported asset last month, attracting more than $16 million in AUM.
-the new platform gives you a consistent way to stake, unstake, and earn rewards, while handling each blockchain’s specific operations behind the scenes. Retryable workflows and near-real-time checks help it recover from interruptions and surface differences early.
-since Staking 2.0 launched, staking activity has continued to grow while system-related support tickets have declined. AI workflows helped accelerate the rebuild, with engineers overseeing design and critical decisions.
Onward.
gemini.com/blog/building-sta…
At some point during our fireside at @token2049, @cameron asked the audience to raise their hands if they owned Zcash. About 10 hands went up in a room of full of thousands of people.
it's early.
Level-headed take by Ben Affleck. Ironic because Hollywood has the reputation for world-class bullshitting. When it comes to AI, however, Silicon Valley wins the Oscar for best dramatic performance.
Ben Affleck says AI is simply matrix multiplication, linear algebra and floating point calculations, and however convincingly it sounds like a person, it has nothing to do with thought, humanity or feeling
“Nor do I believe, and I think it’s important to draw the distinction between what AI does, which is simply predict the next token or the next word in a sentence, then add that word on, run it back to the machine, do a lot of computation and pick the next word."
"That is a very different thing than sentience or thought. And I think we need to be really clear about that because it can be convincingly, in an illusory way, sound like thought or like a person."
"But let’s be real clear. This is matrix multiplication. This is linear algebra. These are floating point calculations. It has nothing to do with thought, humanity, or feeling.”
Stop Limit Orders now available on @Gemini for margin trading on Active Trader mode for web and mobile. 📈
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“Privacy is a human right.”
The zcash:native momentum at @token2049 was hard to miss today, with @tyler & @cameron putting privacy front and center.
Excited for what’s ahead with the WINK Zcash ETF, @Gemini, and @cypherpunk
