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Zooko Wilcox

Head of Product, Shielded Labs · 1 appearance on the record.

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He is best known as the founder of the privacy-centric cryptocurrency Zcash and the former CEO of its development firm, the Electric Coin Company. A veteran cypherpunk technologist, he formulated Zooko's Triangle and has contributed to pioneering cryptographic and distributed systems.

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5 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Zooko argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Wilcox: Zcash launched with zero pre-mine and relied purely on mining
“And what we did instead was we started with nobody having any of the money, and we just had mining, which was an innovation that we copied from Bitcoin, so that anyone who has a sufficiently powerful computer connected to the internet can participate in buildi…”
Zooko Wilcox Oct 14, 2017 ▶ 11:40 812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency

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We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Zooko Wilcox on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Zooko Wilcox said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Wilcox: Cryptocurrencies remain useful even if mining power is concentrated
“Protecting users, even if there's a concentration of mining power, that's possible. So don't misunderstand and think that we have to have distributed mining in order for it to be useful.”
Zooko Wilcox Oct 14, 2017 ▶ 13:50 812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency
Insight
Wilcox: Capital investment into mining operations cannot be prevented long term
“There's probably nothing that can prevent someone from investing capital in order to improve their mining operation.”
Zooko Wilcox Oct 14, 2017 ▶ 13:31 812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency
Insight
Wilcox: Founder block rewards align incentives across all crypto participants
“I don't know if there's any other example, but there should be, because it's really great, because it aligns the incentives of the, of everyone involved, everyone in the system, all the miners, all the token holders who buy or use the tokens, and the company a…”
Zooko Wilcox Oct 14, 2017 ▶ 17:58 812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency
Insight
Wilcox: Public Blockchain Flow Patterns Make Linking Real Identities Easy
“Once you have that much of a pattern, that much data available to form patterns out of, then it becomes very easy to make that final step and link it back to our identities.”
Zooko Wilcox Oct 14, 2017 ▶ 6:08 812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency
Assertion Supported
Wilcox: Zcash launched with zero pre-mine and relied purely on mining
“And what we did instead was we started with nobody having any of the money, and we just had mining, which was an innovation that we copied from Bitcoin, so that anyone who has a sufficiently powerful computer connected to the internet can participate in buildi…”
Zooko Wilcox Oct 14, 2017 ▶ 11:40 812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency
Assertion Supported
Wilcox: Zcash forks Bitcoin's codebase, not its blockchain
“It's a fork of the software. We copied the Bitcoin software and added our cryptographic improvements. Okay. But it's not a copy. It's not a fork of the Bitcoin blockchain. It's a separate independent blockchain, Zcash blockchain.”
Zooko Wilcox Oct 14, 2017 ▶ 7:09 812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency
Assertion Supported
Wilcox: Zcash trades at $200 with $20M daily volume
“Those Zcash coins are trading for about 200 dollars a piece on about 15 or 20 different markets in, in different countries around the world, and every day there's about twenty million dollars worth of coins transacted which puts it in the top tier of this kind…”
Zooko Wilcox Oct 14, 2017 ▶ 7:54 812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency
Assertion Supported
Wilcox: Zcash raised $3M from Silicon Valley and Bitcoin angels
“So what we did was, when we were planning this, and this was just gleams in our eyes, we raised funding from a set of Silicon Valley and Bitcoin angels. There were a couple of Silicon Valley DCs, but they were almost all angels. We raised three million dollars”
Zooko Wilcox Oct 14, 2017 ▶ 14:29 812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency
Assertion Supported
Wilcox: Zcash acts like SSL by protecting blockchain data confidentiality
“Yeah, I like that analogy because we protect the access to the data, the confidentiality of the data that goes into the blockchain.”
Zooko Wilcox Oct 14, 2017 ▶ 2:59 812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency Oct 14, 2017 11m
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