Introducing the PGPZ Community Site for Zcash Policy Engagement

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Hi everyone — I’m happy to share that the new PGPZ community site is now live (early beta with lots of community engagement features coming soon):

PGPZ — PGP* (Pretty Good Policy) for Zcash — is a Washington, D.C. policy initiative focused on privacy-preserving digital cash, practical compliance, and the public-interest role of Zcash.

The main PGPZ site is here:

PGPZ builds on the long-running PGP* (Pretty Good Policy) for Crypto convening series and is now being refocused around Zcash policy engagement. The initiative has three connected pillars:

  1. Focused Convenings

PGPZ will continue the PGP* policy convening series in a more Zcash-focused format, bringing policymakers together with experts on privacy-preserving digital cash, practical compliance, civil liberties, and public-interest technology. The Cypherpunk Policy Dinner planned for October 21 is one example of this pillar in action.

  1. Community and Member Resources

The new PGPZ community site is intended to become a home for Zcash policy updates, member resources, programming information, and community-led coordination.

Membership is free. The first version of the site supports signup with email plus X social proof. I recognize that not everyone uses X, and additional signup options are planned for future versions.

  1. The PGPZ Coalition

PGPZ will also include a smaller, action-oriented working group of policy professionals and active advocates directly engaged in policymaker education, advocacy strategy, and practical coordination around Zcash.

The goal of the community site is not to replace this forum or any existing Zcash community spaces. It is meant to be a complementary home specifically for people who want to follow, support, or participate in Zcash policy work.

Policymakers are making decisions that will affect whether privacy-preserving digital cash can exist, be used lawfully, and serve the public interest. Zcash needs credible, constructive, and well-coordinated policy engagement so that its role in financial privacy, civil liberties, compliance, and human rights is better understood.

Please feel free to join the community site, share feedback, and suggest topics or resources that would be useful for Zcash policy engagement.

Community site:

Main PGPZ site:

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Paul Brigner for ZCG (June 2026)
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Hi everyone — I’m excited to share that the PGPZ Community has now started sending its first policy updates.

This morning, PGPZ subscribers received two initial updates:

1. PGPZ Weekly Policy Memo: Week of June 8, 2026
This memo covers the House Ways and Means Committee’s digital-asset tax hearing, discussion drafts on de minimis relief and mining/staking rewards, the DCG fly-in focused on financial privacy, CLARITY Act advocacy, and continuing exchange and custody access issues for privacy-preserving assets under EU AMLR and MiCA.

Read it here:

2. PGPZ Special Update: U.S. Digital Asset Policy and Zcash
This special update looks at the first half of 2026 and what recent U.S. digital asset policy developments may mean for the Zcash ecosystem. It covers market structure, tax, agency guidance, banking access, AML and sanctions risk, intermediary access, and the ongoing need to distinguish legitimate privacy from illicit opacity.

Read it here:

The goal of PGPZ is to provide timely policy analysis and shared context for the Zcash community, especially as policymakers make decisions that will affect privacy-preserving digital cash, compliance-capable infrastructure, lawful access, and the future of financial privacy.

A few themes from these first updates:

• Digital-asset policy is becoming more constructive overall, but many of the issues most important to Zcash remain unresolved.
• Tax proposals such as de minimis relief and mining/staking treatment could matter directly for ZEC use and adoption.
• AML, sanctions, banking access, and intermediary risk remain central policy challenges for privacy-preserving assets.
• Policymakers need accurate explanations of Zcash, including transparent transaction modes, shielded transactions, and selective-disclosure capabilities.
• The Zcash community has an important role to play in correcting inaccurate “privacy coin ban” narratives and explaining why financial privacy is a legitimate public-interest concern.

Membership in the PGPZ Community is free. You can join here to receive future updates directly:

Feedback is very welcome. I’d be grateful for thoughts from the Zcash community on what policy issues, resources, explainers, or advocacy materials would be most useful going forward.

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