Zcash and Monero solved the same problem.
They just chose opposite philosophies.
Zcash asked:
"How do we build the most advanced privacy technology possible?"
Monero asked:
"How do we make privacy the default?"
Zcash brought zk-SNARKs to the real world, one of the most important cryptographic breakthroughs of the last decade.
Monero gave the world something simpler:
Private money that just works.
Today, Zcash remains a cryptography project with a currency attached.
Monero remains a currency with cryptography attached.
Both matter.
But this week the difference stopped being philosophical.
A soundness bug deep in Zcash's most advanced shielded circuit halted the entire network for hours and put the integrity of the privacy pool itself in question.
Monero just kept settling private transactions, block after block, the way it always has.
The most advanced privacy technology, and private money that just works.
This week, you didn't need the market to tell you the difference.
#Monero #XMR #Zcash #Privacy
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