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Zcash to roll out quantum-recoverable wallets within a month, go quantum-proof by 2027
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- A separate scaling track is targeting MasterCard- and Visa-scale throughput on a similar horizon.
- Swihart's pitch was that Bitcoin no longer holds up as the cypherpunk-grade money it was meant to be.
- Visible balances on a transparent ledger let governments seize what they can see, he argued, the same wealth-visibility critique Multicoin's Tushar Jain leaned on this week when disclosing the fund's purchases.
A separate scaling track is targeting MasterCard- and Visa-scale throughput on a similar horizon.
The roadmap arrived during a ZEC rally that has lifted the token more than 110% over the past 30 days as prominent crypto fund Multicoin Capital disclosed a sizable ZEC investment and the privacy narrative caught on among investors, sentiment daata shows.
Swihart's pitch was that Bitcoin no longer holds up as the cypherpunk-grade money it was meant to be. The asset works as an ETF wrapper and a store of value, he said, but as a peer-to-peer private payment system "it's just fundamentally broken."
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