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Shielded Transactions | Bitcoin's Privacy Problem (with Zooko Wilcox)

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Difference Between Bitcoin and Zcash

Zcash is based on strong privacy. But there's obviously more than one difference between Bitcoin and Zcash. So could you perhaps speak a little bit to that difference and what make you really view into that direction? Sure. I'm going to look up a quote from Satoshi that I posted yesterday because I was reminded of how in about 2010 or 2009 Satoshi and some others were talking about the privacy problems in Bitcoin. It was clear culturally that Satoshi was a cyberpunk, right? Because his goals were political and his means were technological.

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