Zcash Playlist Challenge: 25 Most Important Zcon Presentations

[Michae2xl]

@jsalimjr sent me a dm, it seems like he’s trying to send it from a new account that was tagged as spam I guess.

Here is his application:

Txid: 2ca27702fce7d445694a0dda8a3e6998b27f11cbd40d7dc508c1c561ad12d18e

[Dnilshon1]

Hi, I’m new here on the forum. Hope to share with the Spanish and Portuguese community. Here’s my channel where I made my playlists.

Dnilshon

ID:

02555a29b268315449695980956066763ec429d2396c94c781b45acde7f61235

[dismad]

OK, submissions are closed

[Lowo88]

They were sleeping on the 25 videos contest lol they woke up.

[Freddeyforyou]

This is hilarious

[ryan.taylor]

Thank you all for your submissions.

I will review them all and announce winners next month, along with the official Zk Av Club Top Most Important Zcon Presentations and the next level of our Zcash 10-Year Anniversary Celebration!

[ryan.taylor]

The Top 25 is here

After digging through years of Zcon talks, breakthroughs, predictions, privacy lore, governance drama, cryptography, wallets, ideas that shaped Zcash, and some that didn’t…

The official Zk Av Club Top 25 Most Important Zcon Videos playlist is live!

Graphic design by @zilk

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAk91cn5Gk6k

This is our attempt to answer a very big question: If somebody wanted to understand Zcash through the history of Zcon, which 25 presentations should they watch?

And now that the playlist is locked, we can finally reveal who won the Zcash Playlist Challenge.

The winners

@Dnilshon1 — 16 points — 1 ZEC
@farad — 15 points — 1 ZEC
@Aminag — 13 points — 1 ZEC

Congratulations! And thanks to everyone who took the challenge seriously enough to dig through years of Zcon history with us.

Final scoreboard

Place	Entrant	Score
1	Dnilshon1	16
2	farad	15
3	Aminag	13
T-4	Freddeyforyou	12
T-4	gilmore	12
T-6	abdools	11
T-6	E-zec	11
T-8	DarwinZ	10
T-8	Lowo88	10
10	Biggdhan	9
11	lfos51	8
12	jsalimjr	6

Dive into the playlist. Find the talks that shaped Zcash, rediscover moments that deserve another look, and send a favorite to somebody who needs to know this history.

This playlist is only the first collection coming out of the larger Zcon archive project.

For the research nerds

Challenge scoring was 1 point for every video in your playlist that made the official Top 25, plus 3 bonus points for every exact-position match.

The submitted playlists helped me define the research starting point. From there, I researched the presentations, reconstructed their historical context, compared overlapping talks, and built an independent editorial ranking before bringing the challenge evidence back in for the final Zk Av Club result.

Y’all helped me figure out where to dig. Then I dug very, very deep.

Congrats to the winners! Thank you to everyone who participated and to @ZcashFoundation for giving us such a rich audiovisual record of Zcash history!

More from the archive coming soon.

[gilmore]

This was a really interesting challenge Going through the Zcon talks and seeing how different presentations shaped Zcash over the years was genuinely worth the time

Congrats to the winners, and happy to have tied for 4th with 12 points

[Biggdhan]

Congratulations to the winners . This was a fun challenge ngl, Challenge had me watching videos and makeing research like I was the AV club intern .

I enjoyed it very much and was hoping to win but y’all beat me to it​

GGs .

[zilk]

Congrats to all winners!!!

[AuraBritoSM]

Congrats to the winners!

[farad]

thank you, i had a lot of fun putting this playlist together.

i already replied to your DM, by the way.