Happy 7th Birthday Zcash! Zcash was born into the world 7 years ago, on October 28, 2016. Why is 7 such a magical number? There are 7 wonders of the world, 7 metals of antiquity, 7 days of the week, and 7 colors of the rainbow. 7 seas, 7 continents…

When I was young, my father would often take me to the cold Lake Michigan lakeshore. We stood there looking at the large lake, and he would say to me, ‘Kaizen.’ He would then strip down, run off the pier, and jump into the frigid water. I was awestruck. As…

Originally posted to the Zcash Community Forum at https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/usernames/45504 I’d like to suggest / revisit a UX tweak for all Zcash wallets, and that is to add the ability to do FIO username lookups. This would give users the option to use theirname@Zcash, and send to usernames. Why this works…

And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need an internet money.” So God made a Zcasher. God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, sync the full node, work all day in the forums, check the node again, eat…

In 1997, Steve Jobs of Apple gave a legendary talk about marketing. He told the story of the milk industry campaign that made sales skyrocket. It all came down to one catchy phrase — “got milk?” In the talk, he said, “This is a very complicated world, it’s a very…

Ever have a craving for a guilty pleasure, and someone, somewhere, is not going to approve? Or you just want to use money that is digital, private, and secure? The good news is there are several places to buy food or drinks with Zcash, as of June 2023. Dunkin Donuts…

The latest Bitcoin upgrade, Taproot, makes it possible to attach images or phrases onto individual bitcoin satoshis. These are called ordinals. It’s like writing with a pen onto a fiat paper note. In the past month, several marketplaces for Bitcoin ordinals have been created, making it possible to inscribe anything…

Zcashers are not alone in the world. There’s another group of people, in fact a whole country, that sees financial privacy as a defining value. Switzerland has a long history of developing privacy as a basic human right and defending against attacks on privacy. …

Zcash just keeps getting better and better. With every new upgrade, every new value pool, every new cryptographic breakthrough, Zcash becomes even more secure, more useful, and more special. Summer of 2018, I was at a campground in the mountains of New Hampshire, and I found myself with other Zcashers…