ZecWeekly #12

Greetings Autotunafish, Plethora of Events & Updates regarding the Network

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Curated by "Jason R" (@zksquirrel)

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Welcome to ZecWeekly

Hello! It's Jason bringing you this weeks newsletter. In its second season Zechub has DAO members contributing on lots of different things. Expect to see a bunch more engaging material!

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Zcash Updates

ECC & ZF Updates

• Welcoming Autotunafish as Community Support Coordinator!

• Nominations for new ZF board member closing October 17th

• ECC Statement on the Network Load

• ECC October Newsletter

• Steven Smith's summary on Blockchain growth

Zcash Community Grants Updates

• Community Grants Meeting Minutes - October 3rd

• Welcoming Global Ambassador - Madison Parks

Community Projects

• Launch of Zcash ecosystem security support website

• Zcash Swag Airdrop Event

• CypherPunkZero Twitter Community created by a holder, join if you hold a CPZ

News & Media

• Ian Miers Talk “Scalability is Boring, Privacy is Dead: ZK-Proofs, What are They Good for?” at Devcon Bogota

• Coindesk Article on Zcash Network

• PGP for Crypto Breakfast led by ECC & Blockchain Association - October 19th

• Zooko & Vitalik In Conversation at Messari Mainnet

• Gary Weinstein at Mainnet on "OFAC and the Fight for Crypto Privacy"

• The Universal Privacy Alliance Launch Event @ ZK House

• Coin Center files Lawsuit against OFAC

• US Treasury fines Bittrex 29 Million. (Remember Bittrex delisted Zcash Jan 2021

• KYC Chaos at Celsius

• BTC, XMR or any coins that use mixers might think twice

• Zcash ⇔ Cosmos governance education trade offs

• Crypto usage is driven by everyday necessity, as opposed to speculation by the already well-off … especially in countries where the values of local fiat currencies are dropping, as we’ve seen in Nigeria and Kenya

• Zooko and Bill Barhydt talk Zcash in this hidden gem

• Paypal testing the waters

Some Zcash Tweets

• Free2z Nights! Having a chat with Aura Brito on Friday October 14th

• The State of Crypto Privacy with Espresso Systems

• Zcash Foundation posts ZSA explainer

• ZGo Integration with Xero in Open Beta

• The Latest Zcashers from Zcash Nigeria

• Zcash Brazil's 1st Community Call

• Ian Sagstetter's thoughts after lecture at Miami University

• Zcash Arborist Call Notes

• Open Call for encrypted memos Filecoin x ECC proposal

• Zcash San Diego Meetup - October 27th

• Zcash Foundation September Newsletter

• Ledger app v2.1.1 fixes the transaction issue affecting ZEC accounts on desktop

• Zcash art spotted in the wild

Zeme of the Week

Shielded Memes 🛡️ @ShieldedMemes

Still running the streets, still not loving the publoc ledgers, still the one and only @zooko. 🛡️🫡

Jobs in the Ecosystem

• Developer Relations Lead, ECC

• DeFi Alchemist, ECC

• Director of Security, ECC

• Executive Head of Product, ECC