# 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") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 30
### 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 24, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/funding-a-cannabis-retail-start-up/42509/30 "2022-07-24T10:46:12Z")
Forget [my Swiftian “Modest Proposal”](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/a-modest-proposal-swiftly-grant-me-freebie-zec-so-that-i-can-continue-bribing-my-friends-to-use-fully-shielded-zcash/42558). Real life exceeds satire. I must identify the Emperor’s New Clothes: > [@ponchobrotherz](#): > > I’m seeking $27,000 that will be used for product giveaways and initial payroll for training/staffing. > $20,000 for the neighborhood grand opening expenses. $47,000 total. **This is literally a request for a “dev fee” grant to throw a big party, and give away free weed.** Indeed, the lavish $20k party and the thousands (tens of thousands?) of dollars worth of free product seems to be _the vast majority of_ your request. It is audacious. If [@ZcashGrants](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/groups/zcashgrants) were to grant this, or even seriously to consider it, that would put them in breach of fiduciary duty. Instead, they should seriously reconsider the public image that they are presenting to attract such requests. It also indicates to me that the whole “dev fee” system should be stopped ASAP, per Zcash’s original design. > [@ponchobrotherz](#): > > ZEC community to invest 47K, is a small price to pay to be apart of a truly unique company and group of individuals who hearts are in the right place. ZEC community to give me $47k as a gift is a small price to pay in tribute to my glory. I am so truly _unique_ that my pseudonyms get linked by my style and my substance. My heart is clearly in the right place. @ponchobrotherz, no offense. If I weren’t a long-term ZEC holder myself, I would find this admirable. You have so much self-confidence, you just told a forum where too many people are desperate for their coin to be _liked_ that $47k is a small price to pay for your attention. That takes guts! Maybe the Zcash community should pay you $47k for coaching in self-confidence and self-esteem. Or perhaps there is a better way: If you **buy ZEC** , hold it in your own shielded wallet, get a taste of the total freedom of sending transactions within the shielded value pool, then you will soon be one of Zcash’s gutsiest promoters. Hey, I know your heart is in the right place! **You to invest only about $600 at current prices will get you 10 ZEC for your beginner shielded stash.** (ZEC is on deep discount sale right now. If you don’t want to be a cheapskate, start with 100 ZEC. You’ll buy more later anyway, and you may regret missing the cheap prices now.) **It’s a small price to pay, to be a part of a truly unique crypto ecosystem and community of individuals whose hearts are in the right place.** I’m too busy to do tech support now; but there are plenty of nice people on this forum willing to help you get up and rolling with a shielded wallet. Now, once you have bought yourself some ZEC, of course, you will want to use it. I don’t like revealing where I shop; but here is a good recommendation: It is publicly known that I do some **domain registration at [Njalla](https://njal.la/) ([onion](http://njallalafimoej5i4eg7vlnqjvmb6zhdh27qxcatdn647jtwwwui3nad.onion/)).** Their **fully-shielded** Zcash checkout system is excellent (as of Sapling; I haven’t yet tried since Orchard activation), and they don’t require you to give _any_ information except for an e-mail address. You can use [Tor Browser](https://www.torproject.org/) (be sure [to verify the signature](https://support.torproject.org/tbb/how-to-verify-signature/)), use the onion, and register domain names with _privacy_. Once you get a taste of it—once you feel the mind-blowing experience of financial transactions with effectually **infinite anonymity** , you will so much want to share that with your customers, you’ll be eager to take ZEC as your most preferred payment option. Maybe you’ll even offer a discount for people who pay in ZEC, just to get more ZECs in your store’s wallet without the cost and overhead of exchanges! * * * The Zcash community should learn from Bitcoiners. Every time that Bitcoin crashes, every time that [the mass media declares Bitcoin dead](https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/), there is a hard core of BTC holders who just laugh and buy more BTC. Because we are absolutely sure that BTC will be priced \>$1 million someday. That sounded crazy at $2 or $200; it doesn’t sound so crazy anymore, at $22,000. Oh, no, forget about asking anyone to pay you $47,000 to accept BTC. LOL. Give free help and technical support to get set up, _yes_—pay someone to accept real money, _no_. (“Real money” means BTC, not [depreciating central bank shitcoins like USD](https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/).) **You’ve gotta want it.** If you don’t, then instead of begging to be liked, [Bitcoiners will laugh at you.](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=342.msg60591159#msg60591159) **You need Bitcoin; Bitcoin does not need you.** Zcashers could learn from that. Or [keep doing the same thing](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/). * * * Not that it substantively matters here, but I am curious: > [@ponchobrotherz](#): > > I like that you offer ZGo and I would consider this option as a back-up but I would prefer to first explore RocketFuel Blockchain merchant service and their relationship with exchanges for it’s ease of use. > [@ponchobrotherz](#): > > […] working with Rocket Fuel Blockchain merchant platform. Does it support shielded? 🤨 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/funding-a-cannabis-retail-start-up/42509)._