Zingo Lab Viridian, Lands Basic Finsight Ahead of Schedule

[zancas]

Greetings noble friends!

TL;DR Zingo now has a convenient graph that summarizes how value has been sent from the app.

ZL Viridian
Zingo Lab Viridian, a band of hackers focused on the Zingo! family of applications, has completed the Basic Finsight feature ahead of schedule.

At ZL Viridian, we believe that now is the moment to focus on the benefits of private money.

Money is evolving quickly, and in many directions.

Outside of the Zcash community the argument for privacy is often open. We are providing exclusive insight, to the User, into how their private finances are allocated. We believe that exclusive insight into financial history is a compelling argument for private money. We believe that it’s an argument that must be made now.

There’s a lot more going on at ZL Viridian in addition to new finsights.

We’d like the community know who/what we are to better understand how their ZCMG money is being allocated.

ZL Viridian is a small software engineering Band. Every member spends most of their time writing code, and most of us write code almost exclusively. In other words we don’t have dedicated managers/communicators/regulation-interfacers etc. This means that funding allocated to ZL Viridian is maximally focused on new software.

In the last 3 months a significant portion of our effort has been allocated to “Infrastructure”. In order to be maximally effective we need reproducible observations of how Zingo-and-related systems actually behave. To get these observations we’ve been writing automated tests that show us how Zingo! behaves in different situations (on different devices, against different hypothetical block-chain states, etc.) We are now starting to leverage the test facilities developed at the ECC by @pacu and others “darksidewalletd”, to extend our test infrastructure further.

In short, we have been building and will continue to build the test infrastructure we require to build high quality applications. We have succeeded in creating this infrastructure while simultaneously fulfilling our promise to add new, critical, features to Zingo.

Moving forward, expect to hear more about what we are offering the community with respect to finsight, performance, test, social innovation, collaboration and more.

Things are popping! You might hear from us… you might hear from our friends… or just maybe… you already know what I am talking about, because your rolling your own ZL!

Namaste,
–Za

[gordonesTV]

Go, go, go!

[refinance]

Hello, Za

Does the functionality of this feature extend beyond what is displayed in the provided screenshot? It appears to possess fairly rudimentary capabilities.

[ZecMec]

Zingo is a fantastic wallet experience. Thanks Zancas, to you and your team for all the work you have done to deliver this for the community.

Love the concept of exclusive insight into financial history as a service- a very compelling argument indeed. And I totally believe that now is the moment to take the myriad arguments for private money to the wider world, which finally, as you say, shows signs of waking up to the issue towards which so many ears have been deaf for so long.

[yoditar]

Zingo is a new concept of how we access and manage our money using the privacy features of Zcash.

In the Spanish Zcash community we are helping members to start actively using Zingo and taking advantage of all it has to offer with each update.

This will be an opportunity to discover suggestions and possible bugs that will help the team to improve the app.

Thank you Zancas and Zingo Lab Viridian team! Well done!

[pkr]

It doesn’t. That’s @zancas’s whole schtick. Overtly wordy posts meant to obfuscate the trivial implementation all while slurping up the dev fund.

Meanwhile, @hanh quietly works as a solo one-man team, pushing updates that are not only more feature-complete, but have an actual audience.

[Jgx7]

@pkr

It doesn’t. That’s @zancas’s whole schtick. Overtly wordy posts meant to obfuscate the trivial implementation all while slurping up the dev fund.

This is precisely why we need to get out of the edge use case business. The dev fund/grants are not good at picking winning ideas on the edge. The dev fund should be focused on the blockchain, programmability, POS, privacy based stablecoins, ZSAs. Create a fee structure so Zingo can fund their own development and then charge fees to recapture their investment. Zec holder money should not be put a risk for such high risk low return projects. Its a sink hole. Zcash should only fund 1 wallet and offer the SDKs to all for free. Then everyone else (like Zingo) can leverage from the SDKs, fund the incremental cost to build their own wallet and charge fees. We are falling behind on the blockchain use cases. Especially programmability and privacy based money.

If its not a sink hole / money pit, then offer some compelling metrics like wallet downloads, verified transaction volume, and other important metrics. The Zingo wallet looks like a virtual carbon copy of Nighthawk doesn’t it? Why would this get funded and not Ledger? Ledger scales globally, less costly, and expands the edge whereas Zingo arguably does not add much if anything more than we get from Nighthawk and Ycash.