for zcash, privacy is often misunderstood as the end all be all that certainly serves a clear market segment and is incredibly important but I posit the more significant part of privacy is its role in enabling a better monetary asset privacy enables choice, but more importantly it enables the safe haven and fungibility required for a true internet-native SoV internet-money by default has historical information attached to it which means that one coin may not actually be fungible for another coin (i.e if the Canadian government determines your coins came from those supporting the truckers, they can come after you for years into the future) i.e the money you receive shouldn't come with the baggage of those who held it before you cash does not have this problem and is devoid of all information which enables true fungibility and higher liquidity in the limit, and so too must internet-native money have this property even with gold and other offshore holdings, there's a reason people (used to) put them in Switzerland to take advantage of bank secrecy but with Zcash, we now scale this to the entire planet. that's the point of tech: scale now, all you need is an internet connection and a cryptographic keypair to get all these benefits that were only available to a select few so, even if you're someone who doesn't need the privacy aspect of zcash, it's still foundational for enabling a better monetary asset along with quantum proofing and performance upgrades trillions

Today I saw in real life how coding agents don't know the mantra of "parse don't validate". I'll see if I can compose a public example for a blog post on this.