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Maxime Desalle episodes
- Zcash Is Encrypted Bitcoin — The Winklevoss Twins
My first interview with Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
Guests: Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss
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Chapters
- 00:00 — Intro
- 00:47 — The 2012 thesis: digital gold
- 01:46 — Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
- 02:28 — The first internet-native money
- 03:15 — Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
- 04:47 — Money has always been private
- 05:31 — The true separation of money and state
- 06:20 — Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
- 07:59 — AI and quantum as accelerants
- 09:11 — Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
- 09:27 — Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
- 10:53 — Zcash in 5–10 years
- 11:47 — AI cycles, not halving cycles
- 13:37 — The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
- 14:08 — Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
- 14:54 — Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
- 16:04 — Gold is abundant in space
- 17:27 — Why start Cypherpunk
- 19:05 — The coming war on privacy
- 19:55 — Flock cameras and mass surveillance
- 22:18 — The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
- 23:47 — Wrench attacks and public blockchains
- 25:10 — “I have nothing to hide”
- 27:11 — Einstein at the patent office
- 29:14 — Self-censorship in academia
- 29:48 — Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
- 30:41 — Outro
31 min - Bitcoin Has Been Captured — Josh Swihart
My first interview with Josh Swihart, founder and CEO of Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), the team behind the Zodl wallet.
Guest: Josh Swihart
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Chapters
- 00:00 — Intro
- 00:45 — Zcash was objectively dying
- 03:36 — What revived Zcash
- 07:11 — Swaps: the killer feature
- 08:41 — What was broken at ECC
- 10:54 — A dev fund that looks like a government
- 11:30 — The fork excuse
- 12:20 — Why ECC went for-profit
- 13:34 — Balaji: too big to kill
- 16:05 — Zodl’s roadmap
- 16:44 — The parallel polis
- 18:25 — Building a parallel financial system
- 19:10 — Seed phrases are antiquated
- 21:57 — Desktop wallet, multisig & time locks
- 24:50 — Bitcoin has been captured
- 26:21 — Bitcoiners hedging into Zcash
- 27:00 — How Zcash avoids capture
- 29:25 — Do ETFs matter?
- 30:25 — The biggest Bitcoin maximalist lie
- 31:58 — Bitcoin’s quantum problem
- 34:35 — Peter Todd and the soundness bug
- 36:35 — Will Zcash overtake Bitcoin?
- 37:23 — Zcash in the hands of billions
- 37:39 — Store of value vs. currency
- 38:43 — Should the transparent pool die?
- 41:19 — Exchanges have no excuse (Gemini vs. Coinbase)
- 44:00 — Quantum recoverability & the post-quantum roadmap
- 45:58 — The most secure place to store funds
- 46:19 — Tap-to-pay, Flexa & CrossPay
- 49:08 — Stablecoins as the Trojan horse
- 49:52 — Outro
50 min - Why Billionaires Are Betting on Zcash — Will McEvoy
My first interview with Will McEvoy, CIO at Cypherpunk and Principal at Winklevoss Capital.
Guest: Will McEvoy
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Chapters
- 00:00 — Intro
- 00:37 — Investing in a chaotic macro regime
- 02:42 — What entropy actually means
- 04:08 — Does AI create order or amplify chaos?
- 04:35 — AI centralizes, crypto decentralizes
- 06:25 — Zcash as private, unstoppable money
- 07:25 — What Cypherpunk is building
- 08:41 — Is Cypherpunk just a DAT?
- 10:21 — The Berkshire Hathaway of privacy
- 12:56 — What makes an asset pro-entropic
- 14:44 — Why attacking Zcash makes it stronger
- 16:34 — Where Bitcoin fits in
- 18:51 — Why not gold?
- 20:29 — AI as the forcing function for privacy
- 23:03 — ZK proofs and information leakage
- 25:16 — Will Zcash flip Bitcoin?
- 26:42 — The Bitcoin maximalist cope
- 28:41 — Toward a digital Bill of Rights
- 30:34 — Cryptography vs. pinky-promise privacy (VPNs)
- 33:22 — Why Zcash over other privacy coins
- 34:22 — Complexity as attack surface
- 35:20 — The spectrum of crypto privacy
- 36:18 — Can Zcash avoid institutional capture?
- 38:22 — Outro
38 min - This Physicist Says There Are Millions of You — Sam Kuypers
A conversation with Sam Kuypers, quantum physicist and fellow at the Conjecture Institute.
Guest: Sam Kuypers
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Chapters
- 00:00 — Intro
- 00:33 — Working with David Deutsch
- 01:11 — Taking quantum theory seriously
- 03:19 — Locality & local realism
- 04:19 — Entanglement explained
- 06:28 — Spooky action at a distance
- 08:42 — The Conjecture Institute
- 09:58 — What is Many Worlds?
- 11:01 — The measurement problem
- 16:28 — Collapse vs. Many Worlds
- 19:00 — Branching & decoherence
- 22:23 — The double-slit experiment
- 25:20 — Where are the worlds? (Bekenstein bound)
- 27:18 — What is Hilbert space?
- 31:08 — Does Many Worlds violate energy conservation?
- 33:57 — Is time real?
- 34:20 — Newtonian time vs. internal time
- 37:07 — Julian Barbour & timeless physics
- 41:00 — The Page–Wootters clock model
- 45:02 — Explaining time to a non-physicist
- 47:19 — Free will in a deterministic universe
50 min - This Cryptographer Has a 10-Year Plan for Zcash — Zooko Wilcox
My first interview with Zooko Wilcox, co-founder of Zcash.
Guest: Zooko Wilcox
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Chapters
- 00:00 — Intro
- 00:40 — Why Zooko joined Cypherpunk as advisor
- 01:42 — Quantum computing & Zcash’s position
- 05:09 — Bitcoin vs Zcash culture
- 07:18 — What is Crosslink?
- 09:35 — Crosslink benefits: irreversible finality & security budget
- 14:24 — Bitcoin’s security budget problem & NSM
- 18:20 — The complexity critique of Crosslink
- 21:23 — NSM, dynamic fees & voting confusion
- 25:14 — Coin-weighted voting
- 27:55 — Tachyon: scalability and post-quantum
- 32:35 — Shielded Labs’ enterprise support services
- 33:38 — The T-addresses debate
- 38:30 — The political path forward for Crosslink
- 43:25 — Turnstiles & canary networks
- 45:28 — Zooko’s 10-year vision for Zcash
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