Oxous
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Aug 3, 2021
The ZCash mention is a real throwback for me. Years ago on 4chan's /biz/ people would often mention that ZCash had a tranny dev whenever it was shilled, so I figured this guy was that troon dev at first, but he's actually a different one! Did some searching and here's who I was thinking of:Radix42 / dmercer / MercerWeiss / MathHippy / n0tmusic / lokixviii / notoriousjane / TransJane42 / anon47418038 / jane_d_mercer / Jane Mercer / Jane D Mercer / Jane Diane Mercer / David Mercer / David J Mercer / David Jane Mercer / David James Mercer
(Born February 1971) 53 year old Cryptocurrency developer from Mariposa California who is very active on social media. He's bipolar and seems to have a weird combination of different beliefs he likes to broadcast about himself. He's also currently a hobo who smokes weed while staying in different places.
He was last recorded in Portland Oregon and lived in Tuscon Arizona at some point. He developed something called Zcash4Win (a cypto mining app) in 2017 and was the lead developer for HUSH (formerly zdash) several years ago.


Daira-Emma Hopwood / feministPLT / diaraemma / daira
Twitter | Github | LinkedIn | Substack | Mastodon
Employed at Electric Coin Company which if I recall correctly is the company that develops ZCash. He's an oldtroon who seems to have already been active in the software community in the 1990s. He's described as a "founding member" on ECC's site and was a Engineer and Protocol Designer in 2019 and 2022, and according to his Github which he actively uses he's now a R&D Engineering Manager. Goes by the pronouns ze/hir. Seems to do very little posting on Twitter or Mastodon of his own, but retweets a lot of stuff despite having promised to abandon Twitter; it's mostly Covid-obsessed stuff with some tweets about Trump and Palestine mixed in.

Not a comprehensive deep dive or anything but I thought this was an interesting throwback.