Not being political, but maybe get Congressman Warren Davidson on board if possible. He is a proponent of Bitcoin and financial privacy. At the moment, Zcash is the best financial privacy.
But it would need better UI and definitely audited wallets for z addresses.
The implicit rights to privacy outlined in the Bill of Rights would ‘poll’ well with all Americans (and many other countries as well) regardless of political perspectives.
I think Pomp interviewed Davidson already.
I really like what you’re doing on educating people, but I must say the whole entire “web3”/“X[num]” thing is sounds incredibly inorganic and unoriginal.
The offshore banking narrative, in my opinion, seems like a better fit for ZEC in particular.
My .02zec.
In July 2020, Davidson founded the Sound Money Caucus, a caucus focused on maintaining financial stability and Dollar hegemony. He serves as its chair.[21]
Less politicans. Less US influence. More global thinking. We don’t need these people, they need us.
Offshore banking has nothing to do with building a better cash system though. I’m not against that narrative, I think it’s great for PSoV play, but I also believe Zcash is more than a PSoV.
Open to suggestion on more ideas other than Cash3. I think it works well though. It is easy to understand for those that know what Web3 stands for.
What does web 3 mean to you?
I think I have an idea of the real motive.
Private cash for degens would be a good narrative. Takes one to know one, recovering degen here 
ETH is ultra sound money. ZEC is web3 money
Why would I trust an infrastructure with small amounts of money when no one is using it with large amounts of money? Think about all that offshore wealth that could potentially be stored on chain, thus raising the price, thus making more people notice. Follow the money if you want “price to go up”!
As much as I disagree with Jack Dorsey spazzing out over the “web3” stuff right now (x.com), I absolutely think that term has been created/commandeered/tainted by Vulture Capitalists and it’s really become apparent within the past year how much it’s been forced.
s/web3/private
Why would I trust an infrastructure with small amounts of money when no one is using it with large amounts of money? Think about all that offshore wealth that could potentially be stored on chain, thus raising the price, thus making more people notice. Follow the money if you want “price to go up”!
I like the offshore wealth narrative. I use this term a lot on Twitter, but I don’t think it is the primary narrative for Zcash.
As much as I disagree with Jack Dorsey spazzing out over the “web3” stuff right now (x.com), I absolutely think that term has been created/commandeered/tainted by Vulture Capitalists and it’s really become apparent within the past year how much it’s been forced.
Narratives are intended to be sign posts. They provide people with simple understanding in as few words as possible. For example, Bitcoin maxis came up with the narrative “digital gold”. I’m personally not a fan of maxis but that doesn’t make the term any less valuable. It’s a catchy narrative and people easily spread it.
“Web3” has an implied meaning of decentralized ownership of data and portability. It doesn’t matter if Web3 has been executed perfectly yet or if VCs came up with the term (or what Jack thinks of the term). My point is people generally understand what Web3 means and therefore it could be a good term to spin off of for our own narratives.
Regardless of whether VCs tainted the term or not, “Web3” is understood to be as neutral as “Crypto”. At least, what happened with the word “moderation” after it gets used by Facebook is a much worse tale.
To clarify: what Facebook does is censorship. Moderation comes from within the community itself.
I understand both of your points @tokidoki and @Ziga, but what I’m trying to express is that ultimately “web3” (the term itself) will fade into obscurity just as “web 2.0” has.
Also consider someone in another country who has never heard of any of these web*n variants. Now you need to first explain what “web3” is and then what Zcash is. My advice is to keep it simple from the start and just call it private internet money or something terse.
How about Electric Cash? Cash for the 21st century?
Just thought of something.
Roger Ver is an investor in Zcash. He also invested in Blockchain.com. Blockchain.com has a block explorer. Would it be possible to leverage his connections to get an advert implemented when someone looks up a BTC address on the explorer?
Something like, “This account is public by default with no way to opt out. Zcash gives you the option to opt-out and hide your money from prying eyes” (I’m not a copywriter so obviously this is a rough pass!)
Well, we can use the strategy for any explorers that support ads. Doesn’t have to be just blockchain.com
I do not support ads, especially when users access their transaction data on an explorer. This is why I helped build zcashblockexplorer.com
It would be interesting to see Roger start pushing for Zcash adoption!
If a user still decides to visit an ad-supported site like blockchair.com you can get in touch with them at Blockchair for advertising.
I would be careful dealing with block explorers and privacy, you never know who is operating it or if the owners are working against the users.
This is one if the reasons ZOMG funded zcashblockexplorer.com (by the Nighthawk team) which uses no trackers and has a public warrant canary.
But in general I like the idea of advertising, even on major pages like Coindesk or YouTube ads to promote Zcash.
That’s a cool website. One idea: Implement “whales” All Zcash whales in real time - ClankApp and hook it up to a Twitter bot like they do: https://twitter.com/ClankApp/status/1474063044204449795.
In addition: bring this functionality (long vs. short ratio) over as well: Bitcoin Longs vs Shorts-Bitcoin Longs vs Shorts Chart- Bitcoin Taker Buy/Sell -Coinglass
Make it THE place to find out every price aspect of Zcash.
I think advertising on block explorer is a great way to ensure people understand what they got into. I know that we wouldn’t want to be associated with any bad actors in the space, but is there any better way to promote privacy in the hotspots?
Perhaps, rather than expanding the community lets expand the Zcash eco-system, and the community growth will follow. Rather people joining the community because of promised riches and price mooning. Let’s get real world Zcash users, who will appreciate Zcash for its use case (which I think isnt a PSoV but rather private money/Cash).
The biggest challange, I think, is adoption. How can we get people to use Zcash for everyday spending?
Web3 is still far away, and the vast majority of people outside the crypto bubble havnt heard about it and probably won’t for at least a decade. Therefore, I think Zcash should look backwards, backwards compatibility, and try to build Zcash into the existing infrastructure.
While NFTs are fun. The goal should be to get Zcash used for the everyday morning coffee.
Maybe there should be a Zcash integration for Quickbooks and Sage? E-commerce platforms like Shopify?
@BrunchTime’s ZECPages is the best real world application for Zcash. He has built out a great initial proof of concept and I’ve shared with him my support for growing it. It just needs some polish and branding. I truly think that it can usurp reddit if enough of the community invested time into it. It just needs more activity and the posts should be more diverse (less crypto/ZEC talk and more general topics).
