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Max Freeman
Founder, Epic Cash
Max Freeman is the founder of Epic Cash, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency built on the Mimblewimble protocol.
He is described as the creator of the Epic blockchain protocol and as the founder of Epicenter DAO. The Epic Cash whitepaper, published under the Freeman Family name, is dated July 4, 2019, and the mainnet launched in September 2019 with no ICO and no premine. The project is developed largely by volunteer contributors, and Freeman has been its main public voice through podcasts, community AMAs and interviews.
He is known for arguing that privacy should be a default property of money and that Epic Cash carries forward Bitcoin's original vision of peer-to-peer electronic cash. In his October 2025 Crypto Coin Show interview he compared Epic Cash with Monero and Zcash and discussed the V4 release and its lightweight privacy architecture. His current focus is the Epic Cash V4 software line and its approach to fungibility, scalability and decentralization.
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Latest interview · Oct 27, 2025Max Freeman on Epic Cash and the future of privacy coinsWatch the episode →
Key points
- Bitcoin lacks privacy by design, making users vulnerable to tainted coin problems where received coins can be flagged and accounts frozen by exchanges.
- Zcash's optional privacy feature results in less than 1% of transactions being private, making users who opt-in stand out rather than blend in.
- Monero uses obfuscation rather than true privacy, storing transaction data on the blockchain that can be analyzed by chain surveillance companies.
- Epic Cash implements Mimblewimble technology with always-on privacy using coin join and cut-through techniques to remove deanonymization data from the blockchain entirely.
- Satoshi's original Bitcoin vision focused on peer-to-peer permissionless payments, not store-of-value or investment, which privacy coins aim to restore.
In their own words
“If you want privacy, you need to use something that has always on privacy.”
“Epic has the capacity to scale to billions of transactions a day and still stay free, and it gets faster over time.”
“You can't just bolt privacy onto a blockchain, or I'm sure Bitcoin would have done it long ago.”
“Success is like rust. It accumulates over time, especially if you keep at it.”
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