The Complete Zcash Roadmap

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What would it take for private money to work at global scale? Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe and ZK researcher Dev join David Hoffman to unpack the next chapter of Zcash, from Tachyon's ambitious scaling roadmap to the challenge of building private wallets that actually work.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Why Zcash Matters Now

07:53 AI Makes Privacy Urgent

11:20 The Zcash Development Roadmap

17:33 Privacy Without Compromises

25:26 Scaling Zcash With Tachyon

39:42 Private Wallets and Proof of Work

41:06 Zcash's Quantum Defense Roadmap

1:00:53 AI Threats and Formal Verification

1:12:53 Security Through Multiple Assumptions

1:19:37 Why Payments Come First

1:25:54 Funding Proof-of-Work Security

1:29:34 Governance and Coinholder Voting

1:34:53 ZEC Price and Protocol Threats

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RESOURCES

Sean Bowe

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Dev Ojha

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