Nathan,
I think this is a fabulous idea. Thanks for getting the ball rolling. I hardly consider myself a “whale”, but I love Gitcoin and Ethereum almost as much as I love Zcash. With that sentiment in mind, I’m happy to step up to the plate and support this.
I just donated 10 ZEC now, and like Nathan, I will further match up to 100 ZEC worth of donations, bringing my total contribution to this campaign up to 110 ZEC, assuming that the community matches me ZEC for ZEC.
I’m also publishing a Zcash Sapling Viewing Key, which will allow the community to track my (matching) contributions to the Gitcoin shielded address.
The viewing key is:
zxviews1qwjyellpqqqqpq90fhud4n8e9gyry9s4hgcxhxmmw3dsl5qnsglmykm262dekf3u5n4sllsu6vs92jw0c7rnv2nfret4ccemx5zf2jptqfqjtgp4kw53ndmlknmrqc9apu37pv3tkkre7y6nq78g0a3fry4g8yz54fxpwuxtjqx2jv900f4m8htpw2dvxtgmc3ch703rep0ww5znkl7yyu0slrn08quq3qt7dr7aazag6l4c7pmqx6e6zh66zjznwnc4dc3sy9sehjchjmz5m
This key can be imported into the latest release of zcashd by running the command:
zcash-cli z_importviewingkey “zxviews1qwjyellpqqqqpq90fhud4n8e9gyry9s4hgcxhxmmw3dsl5qnsglmykm262dekf3u5n4sllsu6vs92jw0c7rnv2nfret4ccemx5zf2jptqfqjtgp4kw53ndmlknmrqc9apu37pv3tkkre7y6nq78g0a3fry4g8yz54fxpwuxtjqx2jv900f4m8htpw2dvxtgmc3ch703rep0ww5znkl7yyu0slrn08quq3qt7dr7aazag6l4c7pmqx6e6zh66zjznwnc4dc3sy9sehjchjmz5m” yes 820000
Note that the rescan blockheight is set to 820000 because this address was not in use before that height, and this will make importing the viewing key quick and painless.
Once you’ve imported the viewing key, you can run
zcash-cli z_viewtransaction d380873980a298921b2ca910dba679a8b4a5c23986fdf8209c43b605ae34ae38
(using the TXID that I linked above), to see the details of the transaction, which proves that while the TX is opaque on the blockchain, I did indeed send the initial 10 ZEC to the Gitcoin z-addr for this crowdfunding campaign. (note, some fields omitted below in the interest of being concise).
zcash@zcashd:~$ zcash-cli z_viewtransaction d380873980a298921b2ca910dba679a8b4a5c23986fdf8209c43b605ae34ae38
{
“txid”: “d380873980a298921b2ca910dba679a8b4a5c23986fdf8209c43b605ae34ae38”,
“outputs”: [
{
“type”: “sapling”,
“output”: 0,
“outgoing”: true,
“address”: “zs17lcwdj7qlqs9wt04akhs4ytm7k8r65pns6jghh5cdp09qeem5wclvhxpy08ylrwq9ggw50rtkzl”,
“value”: 10.00000000,
“valueZat”: 1000000000,
“memo”:
“memoStr”: “Initial contribution from @alchemydc for the Gitcoin Zcash Crowdfunding campaign. DC pledges to match Nathan’s pledge and will match contributions up to a total of 110 ZEC. See Announcing: a Crowd Funding Campaign for a Gitcoin + Zcash Pilot for details. \nReply-To:\nzs15ks5tpar6r8eje5ht2kjrfnrw7k2p824qxkruwtxwxhfq0qn8xuwueactdk0269jed0n7y2q8pf”
In the future I’d love to see GUI support for view keys, both in wallets like Zecwallet/Zecwallet-lite, as well as various block explorers. This kind of work could indeed be funded by this campaign!
OK community, the stage has been set. Let’s leverage the power of the Gitcoin community to inject some fresh developer energy into the Zcash ecosystem. Let’s do this. I’m ready to match your donations! Go!