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Cameron Winklevoss

President & Co-Founder, Gemini

Search every verified Cameron Winklevoss interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Cameron Winklevoss, President and Co-Founder of Gemini, appeared in two recent events discussing Zcash, a cryptocurrency he described as "encrypted Bitcoin." In an October 2026 interview, he recounted his 2012 investment thesis for Bitcoin as "digital gold," noting that Zcash addresses Bitcoin's missing privacy feature and is a fork of Bitcoin with a fixed 21 million supply. He stated that AI and quantum computing advancements are accelerants that expose the public nature of Bitcoin's blockchain and could make Bitcoin less secure, as it is not resistant to Shor's algorithm. He characterized Zcash as standing "on the shoulder of giants" and suggested it could be valued as a percentage of Bitcoin's market. At TOKEN2049 Singapore in October 2026, Winklevoss participated in a panel and announced that Gemini had filed for a Zcash ETF, drawing parallels to his Bitcoin ETF filing in 2013 when Bitcoin traded around $100. He compared Zcash's adoption trajectory to Bitcoin's early days, calling it "an overnight success 10 years in the making," and framed privacy as essential in an era where AI is "eating away at privacy." He described Zcash as the private, encrypted version of Bitcoin, akin to HTTPS versus HTTP on the early web.

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“Zcash is a fork of Bitcoin. And so it's a private Bitcoin. It's encrypted Bitcoin. It's not starting from scratch. It's standing on the shoulder of giants. And so to think of it as a percentage of Bitcoin is a good and reasonable framework because its origin is ultimately Bitcoin. Obviously, it's much different in terms of where it's gone, but I think matching it as a percentage of Bitcoin is a good way to think abou”

“I would say that it's an accelerant and so AI lays bare how public the Bitcoin blockchain is or many blockchains that aren't private. The advances in quantum will only make Bitcoin less secure because it is not Shor resistant and Shor is an algorithm that will speed up the breaking of RSA or elliptical curve ECDSA cryptography and so Bitcoin is underpinned by the kind of cryptography that advancements in quantum are ”

“We announced today that we filed or we we filed uh today um for a Zcash ETF. So, 13 years ago, we did the same thing for a Bitcoin ETF. The price of Bitcoin So, this 2013, the price of Bitcoin was $100. Uh 13 years later, this is the sequel and we filed for the Winklevoss Zcash ETF. Um And so, we're excited about that and just to give people access to this asset class who may want to buy Zcash in a brokerage account ”

“So, we see Zcash as encrypted Bitcoin. Um, just like the early web was HTTP. Uh, Zcash is HTTPS. So, it's encrypted Bitcoin, private Bitcoin. So, the gold Bitcoin thesis holds with Zcash. Zcash is a fork of Bitcoin, so the supply is fixed at 21 million. It's just secure and encrypted. And we're in an era where AI is eating away at privacy, so privacy's important and Zcash ensures that.”

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