I saw one: Bitcoin could potentially get “shielded” privacy like Zcash, without changing its own rules.

As someone who’s been writing code for 10 years, my first reaction isn’t “good news”—it’s “how did they do it?” There are countless proposals and dead bodies lying along the road of changing consensus rules; I don’t need to count them. If you can bypass that, that’s the real skill.

Privacy doesn’t change the amount of my monthly DCA, but it changes who can use this network with peace of mind. The former is position sizing, and the latter determines how many rounds the narrative can keep going. I wrote this down in my notebook.