Privacy services from Zcash to Status usage within the Ukrainian-Russian war (research)
Siusko
February 6, 2023, 7:41pm
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<p>Grant idea: A research on how privacy web3-solutions are used within the Ukrainian-Russian war (with a focus on private currencies like Zcash).</p>
Specs:
research based on the interviews with the different parties in need of external privacy protection (from NGOs receiving funds from abroad to volunteers on the Russian-controlled territories). it will highlight existing use-cases (like funding SUV for territorial defence forces) & potential (to be explored use-cases) it will be maximum practical, so use cases could be shared within Zcash community, partners & the media
Format:
100%-GitHub friendly PDF report UX/UI alike personas (PDF + PPTX)
Reference: AccessNow’ digital safety tips
Category: education & community
Moreover, I want to take a step further:
Collaborate with Ukrainian DAO (https://twitter.com/Ukraine_DAO) present results publicly via Ukraine DAO events similar to Kyiv Tech Summit expand the partner’s network via (example: Digital security lab) collab with Ukraine DAO to PR globally how Ukrainians are using privacy-enhancing solutions (also Zcash)
Recommendation:
Jason McGee from Zcash Community Grants. Josh Swihart from ECC is interested in the results (to share with the human rights events)
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Siusko
February 6, 2023, 7:42pm
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<p>Here’s a grant application.</p>
Feel free to visit the Web3privacy now project I’m maintaining now on GitHub.
januszgrze
February 6, 2023, 9:24pm
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<p>My opinion. Not ECC’s.</p>
I’d like to voice my support for this. My inclination is that Zcash’s neutrality and privacy features make it a great option for monetary transfer in these types of situations, and I’d love to see more research on it.
I believe this grant should be funded.
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Siusko
February 7, 2023, 2:39pm
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<p>Thanks for your support.</p>
I think we are in the moment when privacy-enhancing solutions are seeing wrong, so scaling up use-cases (especially within the human-rights direction) would help everyone from journalists to activists have practical examples how Zcash literally saves human lives.
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Siusko
February 8, 2023, 11:18am
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<p>Also, I want to highlight to everyone a fact that: the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine is highly active within crypto regulation (positive for us). They even have dedicated people that are responsible for facilitating an image of a crypto-native nation. I’m in touch with those people.</p>
So the next step after the report is to share findings at the next level → from the media to official sources (like that Ministry). So they would support us within PR because they are interested in showing an innovation-centric image of the country within so complex context.
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gottabeJay
February 8, 2023, 8:56pm
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<p>This is a really interesting project. Zcash is a very powerful tool for those that need it most. I am broadly supportive.</p>
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Siusko
February 16, 2023, 4:45pm
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<p>Some good news from my side: we are doing 2 pro-privacy events in Prague & Brno.</p>
So results will be presented there to wider community. Czech team was behind cool hackathon in 2022 with NYM, Manta Network, Devfolio, EEF contributing with either sponsorships, speeches & so on.
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decentralistdan
February 23, 2023, 8:48pm
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<p>@Siusko, & Zcash Community, I am happy to announce that the @ZcashGrants Committee unanimously voted to approve this Grant Proposal at the most recent meeting.</p>
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Siusko
February 23, 2023, 11:58pm
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<p>Thanks to everyone from @ZcashGrants Committee & community for great support.</p>
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Siusko
March 24, 2023, 8:57am
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<p>Milestone 1 - done:</p>
I found more than 50+ specific use cases in need of extended privacy protection They cover wast audiences from teenagers to journalists Privacy coins like Zcash could play a pivotal role in saving people’s lives, providing additional means for survival & organizational sustainability (one example: domestic violence centre).
Everything is on GitHub: Grants/w3p-01.md at main · web3privacy/Grants · GitHub
Example of the explicit case: Case: Ukrainian teenagers deported to Russia (example)
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Siusko
March 25, 2023, 12:22pm
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<p>One more good news here: Zcash applicability is just massive within so many “modalities” of how the currency could be applied. Here’s a tip I assembled: link</p>
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1337bytes
March 25, 2023, 11:53pm
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<p>Це чудовий проект Am super interested in following use cases of Zcash in Ukraine and Russia.</p>