Our Stance

We don't pick sides. We designed around the problem.

"What if being kind was the optimal strategy?"

The Great Blockchain Debates (2025-2026)

The cryptocurrency world is embroiled in fundamental disagreements about purpose, censorship, and governance. Here's what's happening and where we stand.

Bitcoin Core vs Bitcoin Knots

Active Civil War

Core's Position (Permissive)

  • Any valid transaction should be included
  • Filtering is censorship
  • Ordinals/Runes are valid uses
  • Fee market decides what's legitimate
"Bitcoin is neutral infrastructure"
VS

Knots' Position (Restrictive)

  • Bitcoin is peer-to-peer money only
  • Ordinals are "spam attacks"
  • Protect scarce blockspace
  • Filter non-financial transactions
"Bitcoin has a purpose"
17.78% Knots nodes (4,240 / 23,842)
$6.2B+ Ordinals sales volume
80M → 156M UTXO set growth (2023-2024)
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Ethereum's MEV Crisis

$7.2B+ Extracted

"MEV is a Feature"

  • Price discovery and market efficiency
  • Validator revenue incentive
  • PBS separates concerns
  • MEV-Share redistributes value
VS

"MEV is Theft"

  • 0.5-2% invisible tax on users
  • Centralizes around builders
  • Sandwich attacks harm users
  • Undermines fair access
90% Validators using MEV-boost
51.56% MEV from sandwiches ($289.76M)
~3 Builders control most blocks
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State Bloat Crisis

Growing Concern

Ethereum Foundation warns: "If only sophisticated operators can afford to store state, censorship resistance weakens." Full nodes require increasingly expensive hardware, threatening decentralization.

Proposed Solutions

  • State Expiry
  • Verkle Trees
  • Partial Statelessness
  • History Expiry

Zenpower Solution

  • Bounded state by design
  • Browser-friendly validation
  • Minimal base layer
  • Off-chain for heavy data

Zenpower's Answer: Design Around the Problem

We don't pick Core or Knots. We don't accept MEV extraction as inevitable. We designed a system where these debates don't exist.

Time-Bounded Hashing

No spam debate needed. Each wallet gets exactly one hash per slot. Protocol-level constraint, not mempool filtering.

Bitcoin: Hash race (ASICs win)
Zenpower: Equal participation (browsers work)

PoE Defines Value Explicitly

No "legitimate use" debate. We explicitly measure what we value:

Hash Participation
25%
Kindness
25%
Creation
20%
Play
15%
Stake
10%
Time
5%
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Dual-Coin Clarity

Bitcoin tries to be money AND store of value AND data layer. We separate concerns:

ZEN$ (Spend)

  • Stable utility
  • Transactions, tips, gaming
  • Mild inflation + decay
  • "Cash in your wallet"

ZENCOIN (Save)

  • 21M hard cap
  • Earned, not bought
  • Governance power
  • "Gold in your vault"
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Protective MEV

We don't extract value from users. We protect them and return captured value to the ecosystem.

Backrun arbitrage (post-user)
Liquidations (protocol health)
100% to DAO treasury
Never sandwich attacks
Never front-running

Full Comparison Matrix

Aspect
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Zenpower
Mining/Consensus
PoW hash race
PoS validator stake
TBH equal slots
Hardware Required
ASICs ($5K+)
32 ETH + server
Any browser
Spam Prevention
Fee market + filters (debated)
Gas fees
Protocol-level (1 hash/slot)
MEV
Minimal
$7.2B+ extracted
Protective (user-side)
Value Definition
Financial only (debated)
Smart contracts
PoE (kindness, creation, play)
State Growth
UTXO bloat (Ordinals)
State bloat crisis
Bounded by design
Governance
BIPs + soft forks
EIPs + EF influence
PoE-weighted quadratic DAO
Token Model
Single coin (BTC)
Single coin (ETH)
Dual (ZEN$ + ZENCOIN)

The Three Tests

Every decision we make passes these tests:

1

WIN-WIN Test

Does this benefit both participants? TBH means everyone has equal chance. No zero-sum mining competition.

Applied: Browser mining = equal access regardless of hardware wealth
2

20-YEAR Test

Will this still make sense in 20 years? PoE values (kindness, creation) are timeless human values.

Applied: Rewarding helpfulness will always be valuable
3

UNCONDITIONAL Test

Does this work for everyone, regardless of resources? Browser-first means no barriers to entry.

Applied: A phone in a developing country can participate equally

Join the Movement

We're building what blockchains should have been from the start: accessible, fair, and kind.