@ssaintleger I really don’t see why ZEC won’t be worth more than BTC eventually. Might take a couple of decades.

@ssaintleger /cc @robustus, because he thinks about BTC’s value in terms of decades ♥️

@zooko @ssaintleger Well I think ZEC is one of the few coins where it's not ~impossible! But I would argue that the path dependency of BTC being first, plus a lot of the smart (and/or lucky) decisions Satoshi made (dead simple mon-pol, disappearing, genesis block quote, etc) have likely cemented

@robustus @zooko @ssaintleger being pragmatic, is the value of a privacy coin (ZEC or XMR) not "hodl BTC then spend via privacy coin"?

@qtipbera @robustus @zooko that doesn’t work because using privacy as a pass-through leaks enough metadata (re timing and amounts) for you to be deanonymized — and this is only becoming easier to automate and scale

@ssaintleger @robustus @zooko and how much time is needed to de-anonymize?

@qtipbera @robustus @zooko that doesn’t work because using privacy as a pass-through leaks enough metadata (re timing and amounts) for you to be deanonymized — and this sort of surveillance is only becoming easier to automate and scale