<story><title>Zcash begins</title><url>https://z.cash/blog/zcash-begins.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mostly_harmless</author><text>&amp;gt; Zcash is a technology, and like any technology it has multiple uses. I suspect that many of the best applications of this technology haven&amp;#x27;t been conceived of yet.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 10% pre-mine to founders&lt;p&gt;This smells super fishy. Altogether, I&amp;#x27;ve yet to see anything to do with cryptocurrencies be useful. Nothing but scams, hiding illegal activities, and hopeless optimism so far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eloff</author><text>A lot of the replies here demonstrate a significant amount of ignorance about just how hard it is to pay for things outside of the US. It&amp;#x27;s not too bad in Canada and Europe, but once you have an address and credit card in a small developing nation, you have substantially limited payment options. With my Panama credit card (which is a premium card) I can&amp;#x27;t buy from most places outside of Amazon.com. PayPal fortunately accepts my card, so I shop anywhere PayPal is accepted online.</text></comment>
<story><title>Zcash begins</title><url>https://z.cash/blog/zcash-begins.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mostly_harmless</author><text>&amp;gt; Zcash is a technology, and like any technology it has multiple uses. I suspect that many of the best applications of this technology haven&amp;#x27;t been conceived of yet.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 10% pre-mine to founders&lt;p&gt;This smells super fishy. Altogether, I&amp;#x27;ve yet to see anything to do with cryptocurrencies be useful. Nothing but scams, hiding illegal activities, and hopeless optimism so far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>komali2</author><text>I was about to argue that I found cryptocurrency tremendously useful when I wanted to shift a largish volume of money from HK to the USA without messing around with banks and immigration, and then I realized that probably fell a bit under &amp;quot;illegal activities.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Heh, you may be right.</text></comment>