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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…”
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.”
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…”
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”