Zcash co-founder Michael Saylor believes Bitcoin should not have privacy features.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Starknet CEO and Zcash co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson posted on the X platform that in his first conversation with Strategy founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor, he outlined Starknet's mission: to drive the Bitcoin economy. Another topic they discussed was privacy. Saylor believes Bitcoin should not have privacy features, at least not a privacy model like Zcash, as this would give sovereign states a reason to ban it. Ben-Sasson disagrees. He believes a balance can be struck: providing privacy while allowing access to the keys.

They also exchanged views on OP_CAT. Saylor worried about too many changes being made too quickly. But Ben-Sasson disagreed, believing that OP_CAT had already undergone extensive debate and research, and ten years was more than enough; there was no need to delay it for hundreds of years.