1. The Maker's Dilemma and the Nature of TradeIf one examines the history of human commerce, it is, at its core, a history of trying to solve a single, persistent problem: the problem of the counterparty. When two individuals wish to trade (whether it is grain for gold in ancient Mesopotamia or Bitcoin for Monero in the digital ether) there exists a moment of profound vulnerability. It is the moment when one asset has left one hand, but the other asset has not yet arrived. In that split secon...

1. The Maker's Dilemma and the Nature of TradeIf one examines the history of human commerce, it is, at its core, a history of trying to solve a single, persistent problem: the problem of the counterparty. When two individuals wish to trade (whether it is grain for gold in ancient Mesopotamia or Bitcoin for Monero in the digital ether) there exists a moment of profound vulnerability. It is the moment when one asset has left one hand, but the other asset has not yet arrived. In that split secon...

The Zcash Foundation has excellent documentation: whitepapers, technical specs, blog posts. Almost nobody reads them. We made a comic book about privacy and people actually learned something. Here's why stories succeed where documentation fails.

The Zcash Foundation has excellent documentation: whitepapers, technical specs, blog posts. Almost nobody reads them. We made a comic book about privacy and people actually learned something. Here's why stories succeed where documentation fails.

Teaching Privacy Through StoriesThe Zcash Foundation has excellent documentation. Whitepapers explaining zero-knowledge proofs. Technical specifications for the protocol. Blog posts about financial privacy. The writing is clear, accurate, and comprehensive. Almost nobody reads them. We made a comic book about privacy and people actually learned something. Not because comics are trendy or because we wanted to seem accessible. It worked because stories do something documentation can't.Privacy i...

Teaching Privacy Through StoriesThe Zcash Foundation has excellent documentation. Whitepapers explaining zero-knowledge proofs. Technical specifications for the protocol. Blog posts about financial privacy. The writing is clear, accurate, and comprehensive. Almost nobody reads them. We made a comic book about privacy and people actually learned something. Not because comics are trendy or because we wanted to seem accessible. It worked because stories do something documentation can't.Privacy i...