# Zcash Community Grants Meeting Minutes 7/8/2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Grants Updates\ **Created:** [July 17, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-community-grants-meeting-minutes-7-8-2024/48321 "2024-07-17T13:46:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23
**Author:** ![ryan.taylor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/ryan.taylor/32/44336_2.png) [@ryan.taylor](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/ryan.taylor)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-community-grants-meeting-minutes-7-8-2024/48321/23 "2024-07-22T12:30:35Z")
Thank you for replying @ambimorph. I hope that my tone on these messages is taken as constructive criticism, rather than attack on anyone’s skills or person. It’s not that I “hate this grant,” I feel like this is a betrayal of the Zcash community, an exploitation of the grant program, and destined to fail, given the current strategy that I have seen. That’s what I’m trying to be clear about. Since you asked: My main channel is [youtube.com/adjyleak](http://youtube.com/adjyleak) and the first channel that i started, simultaneously, ten years ago, was [SF Bitcoin Meetup](https://www.youtube.com/@sfbitcoinmeetup7536), before also creating and streaming to the [Berlin Blockchain Meetup](https://www.youtube.com/@blockchainmeetupberlin9390) channel. Between all of the channels that I’ve published on, the total number of videos, either streamed or uploaded, is around 1k. A lot of the metrics and history of my work was recently posted in the Zero-knowledge Audiovisual Club forum topic. Starting around here: [Zero-knowledge Audiovisual Club - #125 by ryan.taylor](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zero-knowledge-audiovisual-club/43733/125) icymi youtube metrics have never been my goal, nor one for which I have much respect, although I have done the research repeatedly over the years, as a matter of practice. My target audience is not youtube users. I use the platform for it’s free infrastructure that has been reliable since I started using it in 2014. My target audience is nerds who specialize in, or are curious about, open-source and decentralized tech. Super niche and primarily made for archival purposes. Over the years, I have met some of my audience at events and have been told that they download my videos using command-line tools, like yt-dlp, or otherwise hide themselves from YouTube. edit: I could also add [World Crypto Network](https://www.youtube.com/@Worldcryptonetwork) to channels to which I’ve contributed, although Thomas Hunt (Mad Bitcoins) did almost all of the channel work, wrt publishing and marketing. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-community-grants-meeting-minutes-7-8-2024/48321)._