Zcash: The Most American Cryptocurrency (?) by Zcash Media

Cheers to @David_Heisenberg and the ZM team!

This is far and away my favorite content from your team, and in my opinion, it is also the most relevant to the current crypto/ socio/ political landscape.

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This is great! Well done @David_Heisenberg and @37L!

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Nice! Fees like the title needs to be a bit more…attractive? “Zcash: America’s Cryptocurrency” or things like this. MrBeasty :slight_smile:

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:fire::fire: timely video

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Perfect timing!!!

I love the fact that I feel enlightened every time I watch a @37L video. It seems to me that making content that is that clear and informative is a skilled craft.

I’m grateful that I benefit from that skill.

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Just chiming in to say that this is so well done.

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It’s been sad seeing so many people simping for Trump

  • People complain that Zcash is too centralized
  • Trump makes an insane comment about favoring “American crypto”
  • Zcash is now “American crypto”
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Agree, politician fandoms are the worst. But I think the point there was that Zcash is American because it represents the American values that we all share here (freedom and privacy).

I think that message is good. And I think we need to be aware that we need attention mindshare in order to be able to, eventually, continue to fund privacy advancements.

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ah yes, freedom and privacy, invented by USA

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Your words, not mine :man_bowing:

'Freedom and Privacy, from USA, delivered bwo Raytheon Predator drone strikes and the NSA surveillance apparatus"

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I agree.

I am glad this video does not do that.

I like how it very clearly states that having a single-point of failure managing a cryptocurrency (whether that’s a state or a company) is antithetical to the idea of a cryptocurrency.

I like how the video clearly explains that the language of politicians trying to “own” cryptocurrencies is incoherent, and needs analysis.

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The video doesn’t say this @conradoplg it says the reverse, it says:

“USA, invented by privacy and freedom”

I’m not a fan of USA, but I do think it has some nice hacks in its kernel that are worth reusing.

If we recall that classical Athens was a patriarchical slave-state, should we then conclude that Democracy is worthless?

Should we say that Athens wasn’t a Democracy?

All that having been said @37L I won’t be able to share this video with many of my friends because the initial image is of Trump, and that will end rational analysis.

It states that but then immediately doubles-down on “sure, Zcash is american”

That sums up much more eloquently whatever I was trying to say in this topic

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Yeah… but the hack is that they’ve redefined “american” before that moment to mean “supports the 4th amendment”.

Given the environment… do you have a better approach?

There exists a discourse where the meaning of that term is being created… maybe that’s a discourse that we ought to contribute to?

I think promoting that understanding of “american” could help a lot of people… maybe prevent a lot of unnecessary suffering, by helping people to cultivate a coherent Value… instead of being manipulated by fear-reactions into harmful behaviors.

I think the goal should be to help people suffer less, from that perspective I think the video offers something.

Maybe we can think of “american” as an implementation (with some bugs) of the abstraction that the 4th amendment describes?

And when I say “some bugs”, I come from the perspective of a person who thinks that Snowden (and all non-violent drug offenders) should be pardoned right now.

And the borders should be eliminated… etc.

I understand how the video and language feels offensive, but I think the structure of the content deserves consideration.

Maybe I am missing the real argument?

I think the video is saying that “american” is just a way of saying “supports the 4th ammendment”. I think that’s a counter-narrative to some other definitions of “american” that might be woven into some stories that are concerning.

You can see it that way even if it is not the case :upside_down_face: