Zcash Official Mascot

Posting tweet here: The lore of jubjub (Zcash mascot) is quite interesting: - Sapling was a major 2018 Zcash upgrade that made private transactions much faster and less resource-intensive than the original Sprout system. It introduced improved cryptography, including the Jubjub curve, to make shielded ZEC payments practical on normal devices - The Jubjub curve is a specially designed elliptic curve used in Zcash to make certain zero-knowledge proof calculations efficient. In simple terms, it gives Zcash a fast mathematical way to prove ownership and authorize shielded transactions without revealing the private transaction details. - The bird is basically the visual namesake of the Jubjub curve. “Jubjub” comes from Lewis Carroll’s fictional Jubjub Bird, mentioned in "Jabberwocky" and "The Hunting of the Snark." The jubjub bird is meant to be mysterious and unsettling in these writings. https://github.com/zkcrypto/jubjub/blob/main/README.md https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubjub_bird tldr; it’s a literary reference/mascot tied to the curve’s name that made zcash fast and anonymous; the bird is mysterious and perfectly represents zcash as a mascot