# Funding a Cannabis Retail Start-Up

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/funding-a-cannabis-retail-start-up/42509>\
**Category:** Community Grants\
**Created:** [July 13, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/funding-a-cannabis-retail-start-up/42509 "2022-07-13T23:56:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![nullius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/nullius/32/20935_2.png) [@nullius](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/nullius)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/funding-a-cannabis-retail-start-up/42509/2 "2022-07-14T00:13:28Z")

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> [@ponchobrotherz](#):
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> I’ve been a fan of privacy coins

Glad to hear it. Welcome on your first post here. 🙂

> [@ponchobrotherz](#):
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> and I wanted to reach out to your community first to get your ideas about giving us a grant to help with our start-up costs, including our grand opening in August.

I would be strongly opposed to any usage of Zcash development-funding seigniorage for this type of enterprise. It seems pretty far out of scope to me; and although I would like to see funding for _platforms_ that expand Zcash adoption, especially if open-source, I think it would set a bad precedent to give away free money to businesses that may simply accept ZEC as a payment option.

If word gets out on that, the line will go around the block to get free ZEC for configuring ZEC as a payment option. That’s not good for ZEC holders—and it does not significantly promote the cause of privacy, either.

I do think that Zcash needs to focus more on marketing to B2C use cases, among other things I have been preparing an essay about. But it must come from the direction of connecting with businesses that add value to their business by accepting ZEC—not by essentially bribing enterprises, at Zcash’s expense, to accept a currency that is _beneficial_ to them to accept. Zcash needs to be _wanted_—and it should be wanted!

At that, @ponchobrotherz, on a positive note: You say you are a fan of privacy coins. **What value would it bring to your startup, to accept the privacy coin which objectively, incontestably has the best privacy?** How would it benefit your business and your customers? As a Zcasher who has much enjoyed Zcash’s privacy, I always like to hear about such things; and the world needs to hear about them, too.

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