Disconnect from the internet, you are already owned. Further more, I don’t appreciate your constant negative attitudes.
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I was hoping that during the zcashd deprecation, zcash would use the opportunity to redesign its network protocol and get rid of the old Bitcoin-inspired protocol. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen.
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Sounds like zebrad was quite a lot of work already and was sorely needed on multiple fronts. Possibly also redesigning the network protocol was too much in one go. I don’t know though, just my perception.
It certainly could still be redesigned. If you think this could address the problem discussed here, let’s discuss it. Stakeholders funding is hopefully coming soon, it could probably help gathering the necessary resources to make this happen.
Just in case you’re thinking I’m amongst those “privacy pros” @paulbrigner, I don’t think I’m that. I’m privacy dependent; I need it and therefore I’m just being particularly cautious in that area.
Yeah, Nym is an interesting angle for sure. It seems to me that Tor is a lot more hardened and proven but it’s good to explore alternatives as well. Keep us in the loop of your findings! 
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Oh, I just remembered something you may find interesting in your explorations @paulbrigner and also anyone interested to deploy their own Zcash servers while not compromising their privacy.
Some governments may interpret connections to Tor or Nym as people up to no good. There are ways to be stealthy while using those protocols, but that’s not necessarily the case natively.
Connecting to Tailscale is a very neutral connection, and then nobody can tell you are exiting through Mullvad VPN, one of the highest rated privacy VPN. I’d argue it’s the best, but that’s just me.
More details:
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@outgoing.doze, you are a privacy pro!
I think running a node to sync up tx is fine but not for submitting your own. it d be good to have some kind of batch delaying mixing and tor service for added privacy though it would come with it’s drawbacks
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(tl;dr: it’s time.)
Hey everyone.
I completely dropped the ball on this. It’s my fault! A very low point occurred in my personal life, then a very high point which consumed a lot of (positive) energy+time, and here we are.
It’s time to make this workshop really happen.
I will no longer be the bottleneck: @readymouse is a new dedicated member of our team who will be completely focused on running it.
Here’s what’s different this time:
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@readymouse! Our new instructor in residence will be focused on the curriculum and supporting any questions from workshop members.
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Workshops will be conducted in a separate forum to help us focus. No more messaging apps, it is a familiar Discourse forum. Caveat: we may not host this forum forever, it will be online as a place for questions and participation during our workshops.
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Zcash light wallet servers can now broadcast donation addresses! A puzzle earlier this year was how to pay out the monthly rewards to node operators securely, validating that a Zcash address is really controlled by a server operator. Now when you launch a server, you can specify a Zcash address. So, we know how to pay you!
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Hosh now supports tracking uptime over a 30 day period. We will use Hosh to reward server operators who have the best uptime.
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One more thing: We still have the donations from earlier this year which we will be disbursing to node operators. We are finalizing our budget now, but should be able to reward ANY server operator on a monthly basis that broadcasts a donation address. Not just workshop participants. Our goal is to 10x the number of Zcash light wallet servers, and to make it a lot easier to host one yourself.
I feel terrible for past missed deadlines and how rocky of a start this has been. Thank you ReadyMouse for stepping up to lead this effort!
Moderators: please lock this thread, @readymouse is moving workshop discussion over to a new thread to get a fresh start.
Thank you for your patience with us, please read the new thread for instructions on how to participate.
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Closed per OP request