Balaji explains why Zcash is finally having its moment “The technology did work 10 years ago but it took a while for the proofs to work on mobile, for example. The cryptography had to evolve” “The usability of it had to evolve. Everything had to work on mobile. Apple had to make that easier for things to work. A lot of crypto regulations had to move forward” “There were a lot of things that were both technical and social and geopolitical even and now I think it's hit its moment” “Most crypto projects, if they fail, they fail because they go too capitalist. They market it too hard and it just does the Burj Khalifa formation” “Zcash for a long time had the opposite problem of being too PhD which I see often in biotech” “Zcash almost wasn't commercial enough in some ways. It was so pure but that's good because it actually works” “People were in it for a long time for more than money and so now it is very good money”