Hello!
I wanted to start simple thread to complement the retrospective and constructive criticism threads on the forums.
Let’s simply tell others
Why is Zcash important to you?
What do you need Zcash for?
What would you like Zcash to be in 6 months and within a year from now?
And try to abstain to judging others or trying to argue their feelings, hopes and beliefs
I’ll start:
Why is Zcash important to you?
Zcash is important to me because I’ve lived the “not your keys not your coins” for real in 2001 when the government, banks and corporations colluded to steal people’s savings. I’ve lived how when people could salvage some of their belongings from banks, 5-pesos wrench attacks and “express kidnapping gangs” became a thing where neighbors would tip each other off to mob and thieves and for some money to survive. I know first hand that people need a way to preserve their privacy and freedom in a fair economic system.
What do you need Zcash for?
I need a cryptocurrency project that preserves my privacy and the safety of my loved ones and myself while being compliant with the rest of the world economy so that people can start getting the benefit of economic self-sovereignty without the feeling that they will be off-the-grid and isolated from their communities. I need a cryptocurrency that is private, fair and human: for everyone.
What would you like Zcash to be in 6 months and within a year from now?
6 months, I’d like the spam-a-drama to be in the past, and that users can actually USE and more importanly ENJOY Zcash and that the community had debated all the wrong we’ve been through, healed out wounds and be focused on discussing a future we can be proud of.
12 months: I’d like to be planning ZSAs, using hardware wallets, seeing ZEC flourishing on p2p and exchanges, Zebra nodes everywhere, and Zcashd slowly being turned off and given the well deserved farewell and gratitude for all the good it has brought to humanity. I’d like to see new faces here, better documentation, and halving that means the start of a new era with more organizations looking to make Zcash thrive and be global, and not like doomsday is coming.
Your turn!!