Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is defending Zcash as a proof-of-work, no-premine privacy coin.

He referenced early cypherpunk ideas from Hal Finney around private electronic cash (dating back to 1993), framing Zcash as closer to that original vision of digital money with privacy built in.

He also took a shot at Bitcoin maximalists, calling some of the arguments a “cargo cult” basically suggesting they follow beliefs without fully engaging with the underlying innovation happening in other parts of crypto. $ADA $ZEC