Up until Core v30 Bitcoin has never had a feature intentionally designed to host non-financial content. It only had financial features hijacked to hold non-financial content.
This is not advice, and I wouldn't consider myself a "Zcash shill".
But I have completely sold out of my Bitcoin, MSTR, etc.
I love Bitcoin, I was 90-99% in the asset for almost a decade. I listened to podcasts, went to conferences, and even took a course in NYC to learn how to
People told me I was a retard speculator at Bitcoin prices $100, $1,000, $10,000, $100,000.
Used to it. So the name calling when I talk about Zcash in public doesn't hurt.
But also -- in hindsight -- I was a speculator. Which is why I'm massively diversified from crypto now.
I've talked with a number of people (2013 Bitcoin era) who are doing this.
Early Bitcoiners are open-minded, used to uncertainty, and not very dogmatic as a cohort.
if it’s not clear by now, smart bitcoiners can see the writing on the wall re: privacy narrative and they know bitcoin has none
some are selling for cash, but the smartest ones are selling for zcash
Let's examine this piece by piece.
> The Zcash shilling is so transparently an astroturfing campaign...
No evidence provided. Baseless claims.
> Zcash has opt-in privacy.
Bitcoin has either no privacy or L2 privacy (by definition "opt-in"). Both are weaker technically.
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The Zcash shilling is so transparently an astroturfing campaign for people sitting on underwater bags to manufacture exit liquidity.
Zcash has opt-in privacy.
There's a 20% dev tax.
It can't scale.
Bitcoin's layer 2 privacy is superior and can actually scale.
