A new episode is here. Daira-Emma Hopwood on Zcash at 10, Halo and the Future of Private Money Daira-Emma Hopwood is a cryptographer and protocol engineer who has worked on Zcash for 11 years, since before its 2016 launch. Daira is the lead author of the Zcash Protocol Specification. With @ebfull and Jack Grigg, Daira co-wrote the Halo paper, whose work led to Orchard needing no trusted setup. Daira is now Head of Research and Assurance at @zodl_app, the lab the whole ECC team started after resigning, and was a factory control engineer before crypto. The following topics are just some of the gems in the full episode. 🛰️Crosslink and the limits of pure proof of work Daira designs "with long-term" in mind and sees today's spread of hash rate across pools as temporary. 🛰️Leaving Bitcoin's codebase behind Daira calls retiring zcashd "a relief." The team forked Bitcoin "without really knowing much about Bitcoin," and the protocol still shows the seams of that. NU7 also plans faster blocks and limits on how much work each block needs to verify. 🛰️Self-custody after the hardware-wallet hacks Buy hardware wallets in person, since the Ledger chip attack happened during shipping This and much more in the full episode! https://t.co/EILYS5zKqI