Why Zcash is the Community to Bring Us Privacy
"The crypto-community most capable of bringing privacy to the masses is Zcash. The engineers behind the effort have more than 200 combined “cryptography-years” under their belt, more years of cryptography experience than many crypto teams have lived. Zooko, the most well-known Zcash community member and CEO of the Electric Coin Company (ECC), dropped out of college in the early 1990’s to join cryptography-legend David Chaum in a digital money pursuit that had them narrowly missing a native integration with Netscape in 1994. It’s now almost 30-years later, and while Zooko’s put on some grey-hairs in the interim, he and Zcash’s community of moon-mathematicians and crypto-magicians have the context, talent, and network for what’s at stake here, and thus they have earned Placeholder’s investment as the privacy team to tackle financial privacy for the Information Age." - Chris Burniske