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Topic: [2018-03-24] Snowden On Bitcoin: World Needs Better To Avoid Gov’t Coercion (Read 142 times)

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I knew his shilling for Zcash was coming right before I started reading the article. This shows that Edward Snowden is not to be trusted when it comes to which privacy cryptocoin to choose and support.

Has anyone of you really used Zcash's z addresses for private transactions? I reckon none really uses it because it takes longer and requires large amount of RAM and CPU resources. Why shill it?



Speaking via webcam in an interview with Coin Center director of research Peter Van Valkenburgh at the Blockstack Berlin 2018 conference, Snowden agreed Bitcoin’s ledger was “devastatingly public.”

Not just Bitcoin came in for questioning, but altcoins as well; Snowden confirmed he had used Monero, while reiterating his support for ZCash as the “most interesting” altcoin currently on the market due to its “unique” privacy setup.


Read the full article https://cointelegraph.com/news/edward-snowden-on-bitcoin-world-needs-better-option-to-avoid-govt-coercion
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