Zcash has ignored the fact that optional privacy is NO PRIVACY AT ALL for over four years.
All major blockchain analysis companies support Zcash now, but they don't support Hush.
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At this point, it seems that Zcash has no mandatory privacy because it's financially profitable for them to not have privacy, so they can sell services to ChainAnalysis, CipherTrace and friends.
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Zcash raised $3 Million USD from investors, which they must pay back. This is why the price of ZEC in satoshis (not USD), always goes down. They are paying back initial investors by selling parts of the Founders Reward. Recently Zcash *renamed* the Founders Reward, and made it even harder to track where the money goes. This does not change anything at all, just makes them look shadier.
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<h4>Hush Relies On Bitcoin For Security</h4>
<h4>Hush Uses Bitcoin For Security</h4>
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Zcash stupidly tries to compete and replace Bitcoin, Hush relies on BTC mainnet for protection from mining attacks.
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<h4>Hush has Sietch</h4>
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Sietch has been protecting HUSH mainnet since September 2019 and adds Monero-like protections on top of Zcash Protocol,
which is why we describe Hush Protocol as an improved Zcash Protocol. The Sietch whitepaper is called <ahref="https://attackingzcash.com">Attacking Zcash
Protocol For Fun And Profit</a> and is also available on <ahref="https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/627">IACR</a>
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<h4>Hush Tells The Public The Truth</h4>
Zcash tries to hide security problems and their various shady dealings with various organizations.
@ -65,7 +78,7 @@ For example, the <a href="https://hush.is/sapling/">Sprout CVE</a> was kept secr
Another Zcash vulnerability <ahref="https://duke.leto.net/2019/10/01/zcash-metadata-leakage-cve-2019-16930.html">CVE-2019-16930 was publicly disclosed by Duke Leto</a>. They were trying to keep it secret
and this is when most Zcash people, including security officers and engineering, blocked him on Twitter, to the detriment of all Zcash users.
The <ahref="https://saplingwoodchipper.github.io/">"Sapling Woodchipper" CVE-2019-11636</a> has actually gotten worse since the creation of that website, since Zcash made their transaction fees ten times
less, in an effort to control fees, they made the attack ten times cheaper.
less, in an effort to control fees, they made the attack ten times cheaper. Since Github has suspened the account of Duke Leto for unknown reasons, the website will be updated and migrated to <ahref=https://hush.is">hush.is</a> .
<h4>Hush Uses The Same Zero-Knowledge Mathematics, For Free</h4>
Zcash spent millions of dollars to develop bleeding edge new mathematics, called *zk-SNARKs*, which
@ -74,9 +87,11 @@ as an upstream, *for free*. Zcash has no "technological moat" and Hush takes all
and combines them with the best ideas from Monero. Thanks Zcash!
<h4>Hush Is Free Software</h4>
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We are a GPLv3 Free Software community, so Hush owns it's own patents and intellectual property. If you
use our stuff in an uncool way, we will send Software Freedom Law Center to you. Additionally, Hush developers
are open to granting MIT/Apache2 licenses to companies who want to use our code in business ventures, which we support. We just don't support writing code for free and then companies taking it, making their riches, and giving nothing back and not appropriately paying the people who everyone depends on. So you must pay before you play.
