Can Zcash’s rise revive the Bitcoin OP_CAT discussion?
As prominent cryptocurrency figures advocate for privacy protocols like Zcash, could the Bitcoin ecosystem revisit the reactivation of Bitcoin opcode OP_CAT?
The crypto community on X has been dominated by prominent figures advocating for the adoption of Zcash as privacy becomes increasingly threatened by governments and regulators.
While the Winklevoss twins, Naval Ravikant, and Balaji Srinivasan back the adoption of Zcash (ZEC), its success could spur the Bitcoin ecosystem to push for more privacy features by revisiting the reactivation of OP_CAT, according to Eli Ben-Sasson, founder of StarkWare and a renowned mathematician who helped pioneer zero-knowledge proofs.
In 2014, Ben-Sasson and his co-authors published “Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin.”
