Replay 2026 / talk 05

Building Money Without Banks

Josh Swihart · 5:43

crypto
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Josh Swihart is founder and CEO of the Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), which builds the Zodl wallet for private, self-custodied Zcash.
Website: https://zodl.com
OUTLINE
0:57 - I first kind of fell in love with privacy
2:21 - We are going to do for money what the Cypherpunks did for speech
3:16 - I got summoned to a meeting with the White House
4:22 - What we are focused on is creating a new financial system
4:44 - This week, we launched a new product called Zodl Vault
LINKS
Network State Conference: https://ns.com/conference
Full Network State Conference 2026 playlist: https://youtube.com/p

Chapters (6)

0:00 · <Untitled Chapter 1>0:57 · I first kind of fell in love with privacy2:21 · We are going to do for money what the Cypherpunks did for speech3:16 · I got summoned to a meeting with the White House4:22 · What we are focused on is creating a new financial system4:44 · This week, we launched a new product called Zodl Vault
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