Privacy on a public blockchain sounds like a contradiction. With Zcash, it isn't. You can take a regular, transparent ZEC balance — the kind any block explorer can see — and encrypt it onchain so no one

Half of my portfolio is now ZEC. That's not a hedge. That's not a trade I'm planning to exit. That's a conviction bet, and I want to walk through how I got here, because the path mattered more than the