Zcash now has a home at Network School, Malaysia, where 400+ techno-optimists and founders live. Two weeks ago this was a boring empty room in a hotel, a prime location right in front of the library where all the buzz of the events happens. Today it's a Zcash office, and yesterday afternoon 12 people showed up to our office hours to talk about financial privacy, many of them setting up their Zodl wallet for the first time, eager to learn how to make their first private transaction. Not because they're "hiding something", but because privacy is a recognized human right. It' in article 12 of the Universal Declaration, constitutions include it and governments defend it, or at least they say they do. Here's what's actually strange: you share your Bitcoin address to receive a payment, and the sender can now see your entire balance and every transaction you ever made. You would sue your traditional bank for doing something similar with your bank balance. You don't hand someone your bank statement when they pay you for coffee. Zcash fixes this. Same technology as Bitcoin, but with the privacy layer that zero-knowledge proofs make possible. Transparent Bitcoin is useful for institutions, banks and governments. But its transparency can harm common people like you and me. We need financial tools aligned with our basic rights. We went from an empty room to a full one in 14 days. We are organizing talks, interviews and onboarding people into their first private transactions in this booming ecosystem. Turns out "privacy is normal" is a message people want to hear. And thanks to Zcash community effort through ZCG, it is now a reality. @Zcash @ns @balajis @zcashme @michael2xl @zcash_community @thecodebuffet @shieldedmark @keiara_d @0xkivous @adamtpang