Optimists buy gold, pessimists buy cans.

Using Zcash as a mixer doesn't work — transactions going in and out can be correlated by time and value. The only way to break this link is to use it as a store of value. If the market demands more financial privacy and understands this dynamic, value will accrue to Zcash.

Money is technology — technology evolves.

The future is private.

You can define an encoding that maps any blob of data to a single number. To censor certain data, you'd have to censor certain numbers. But under a different encoding, those numbers would be different. So: censor all numbers.

Get worse to get better.

The claim that you lost your coins in a boating accident is more credible if those coins cannot be traced.

Who would have thought that we weren't shitposting on Reddit 10 years ago but were training superintelligence.

Just finished "Zero World Problems: New Standards of Living for the Post-Materialist Economy" by Aaron Clarey, great read. Should be mandatory reading for the crypto twitter crowd that thinks trading meme coins from mom's basement is the best way to financial independence.