Zcash Co-Founder Challenges Bitcoin 21M Cap with 4% Plan
Eli Ben-Sasson's 4% perpetual issuance pitch reframes a long-taboo question: what replaces the 21M cap when lost keys permanently shrink circulating supply.
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Eli Ben-Sasson's 4% perpetual issuance pitch reframes a long-taboo question: what replaces the 21M cap when lost keys permanently shrink circulating supply.
If Project Tachyon's verification lands, it would close the trust gap opened by June's Orchard disclosure, which wiped over 40% off ZEC in two days.
The new nonprofit formed out of the Zcash governance split has its first product: a way to recover funds stuck in a long-defunct wallet client.
The deal is a backdoor into US capital markets for a ZEC-treasury miner, and the 60% HeartSciences pop shows public investors are buying the structure, not the medtech business.
A four-year dormant bug in Zcash's shielded-pool cryptography — discovered by AI, not a human auditor — reminds the market that 'private by design' is a promise, not a guarantee.
The fix lands after a counterfeiting bug briefly pushed ZEC to a $252 intraday low — and the recovery since tells you the market read the patch as credible.
Zcash is moving forward with its Ironwood network upgrade, with the development team finalizing the activation plan and…
Buterin's privacy warning, echoed from a Zcash founder's framing, is the clearest signal yet that Ethereum's research community sees on-chain transparency as an active liability, not just a…
Orchard's privacy shield means a counterfeiting flaw cannot be ruled out retroactively, and the market is treating that uncertainty as if it had already happened.
The recovery is sharp, but ZEC is still down 22% on the week — and the real test is whether the new pool exposes or strands the counterfeit supply.
The patch landed cleanly and no exploit is believed to have occurred, but the disclosure wiped more than half of ZEC's market cap in days and prompted a full exit from Arthur Hayes.
Zcash (ZEC) added $1 billion to its market capitalization in under 24 hours, marking one of the sharpest single-day…
The Orchard counterfeiting vulnerability can't be ruled out from chain data alone, forcing Shielded Labs to propose a shielded-pool migration that resets shielded-state trust from scratch.
The same engineer who used Anthropic's Opus 4.8 to surface a four-year-old Zcash flaw says he is queuing Monero and other privacy coins — and the disclosure-only playbook is now under market test.
Qureshi's read isolates the real exposure: nearly all ZEC market liquidity is transparent, so a shielded-pool counterfeiting bug would have been nearly impossible to cash out at scale.
A four-year-old Zcash flaw surfaced by an AI model sends the same warning to every bank and protocol still running unverified code: the defender has to be right every time, the attacker only once.
The 40% drawdown in CYPH and 50% drop in ZEC over a counterfeiting bug that was patched before exploitation did not shake the treasury's commitment to accumulating 5% of supply — a stance the…
The bug is patched, but Shielded Labs admits there is no cryptographic way to prove it was never exploited — that uncertainty, not the flaw itself, is what crashed ZEC and crowded traders into a…
The flaw sat in the zero-knowledge circuit behind Orchard's shielded pool, was found with Anthropic's Opus 4.8, and a five-day emergency response contained it; the harder question is whether privacy…
A shielded-address flaw let attackers forge balances, and ZEC halved in hours. The bid from a wallet pulling 37,316 $ZEC off Binance shows some large holders see dislocation, not damage.