It seems you and him disagree, he says ZCash couldn't/wouldn't have happened in Bitcoin and you say it could.
Is your blog post about this still coming?
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/78153309118155571... https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/78154154453702656... https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/78154374789720064... https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/78153489377171865... https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/78154782708016742...
Ha!
> It seems you and him disagree, he says ZCash couldn't/wouldn't have happened in Bitcoin and you say it could.
Yeah, I'm just surprised he feels so strongly about that, given how little I remember him actually doing along those lines. Like I said, I actually was hired by him on a monthly retainer to do consulting... and he did almost nothing at all with that contract. :(
> Is your blog post about this still coming?
Yes, although holy fuck I have a lot on the todo list. :( I also need to writeup my part of the trusted setup ceremony too.
And a blog post on that isn't paid work, so doesn't get as high priority as paying rent. :)
It's also highlights why I feel the concept of a "decentralized" currency is essentially impossible. Someone always controls some facet of it, be it features of the currency, supply, restrictions, or value.
In the case of cryptocurrencies, the authors of the protocol and governance put in place to maintain it are the central authority. For zcash, the central bitcoin authority (whoever you referenced as 'Bitcoin') wouldn't/couldn't integrate features they wanted so they rolled their own currency of which now THEY are the central authority.
Can you cite this? If he said said it-- it's an outright lie.