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Yet crypto today is more public in terms of I can see anybody who is transacting on chain.

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on Solana, but you've been a big supporter of Zcash lately. So I just want to start here. Talk to me a

little bit about your support and your, I guess, ambassadorship for Zcash and why we're seeing

this incredible surge lately. The surge, the recent momentum, so to speak, it comes from a few sources and it's always

hard to overfit these things and it's easy to over rationalize them.

But fundamentally, the way to frame this in my view is that crypto without privacy isn't

really crypto on multiple levels.

I mean, even the word crypto is derived from Greek words that mean hidden in secret.

Yet crypto today is more public in terms of I can see anybody who is transacting on chain

basically interacting with whether it's their card payments, whether which exchange they use,

I can find out a lot of information about them that I couldn't even find out if they were

using the traditional financial system. And there's a lot of information about them that I couldn't even find out if they were using the traditional financial system.

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