Hello, what an excellent start to the year! This week we received the date for the ECC x Community Zeeboot event, and a huge amount of community voices around the Sovereign rollup idea on the Zcash Forum, Josh Swihart appears on the Zcash Podcast, the results are in from the ZCG Election Poll & ZF confirms a complete Shielded Ledger app submission.

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The Challenges of sending money to Mozambique - Personal Insight

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https://twitter.com/ElectricCoinCo/status/1743053064075141442

https://twitter.com/jswihart/status/1743243623099990309

https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/ecc-update-for-jan-5/46469

https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zeboot-ecc-community-workshops/46331?u=squirrel

https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/official-shielded-support-for-zcash-in-ledger-hw-wallet/45965/38

https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcg-committee-election-december-2023/46047/19?u=squirrel

https://twitter.com/free2zcash/status/1741902796965003384

https://twitter.com/ZecHub/status/1742992649382981692

https://twitter.com/gordonesTV/status/1742651301643624946

https://twitter.com/ruzcash/status/1743613168683762168

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/01/05/celsius-to-unstake-thousands-of-ether-possibly-easing-eth-selling-pressure

https://www.theblock.co/post/270707/dcg-says-it-completed-payoff-of-all-short-term-loans-from-genesis

https://protos.com/israel-allegedly-used-crypto-to-conceal-its-hunt-for-hamas-in-turkey/

https://dydx.exchange/blog/sushi-yfi-incident

https://www.trustnodes.com/2024/01/05/the-bitcoin-etfs-are-unofficially-approved-as-blackrock-amends-19b-4

https://www.theblock.co/post/270426/curve-finance-zetachain-native-bitcoin-cross-chain-swaps

https://twitter.com/TradeOgre/status/1743140246165078142

https://twitter.com/nextiscrypto/status/1743239809814909297

https://twitter.com/nikzh/status/1741881207183356321

https://twitter.com/ZcashEclaireur/status/1742616340530332138

https://twitter.com/OrcaStraya/status/1743395185399390460

https://twitter.com/ZforZcash/status/1743879998241472688

https://twitter.com/jswihart/status/1743510553602015694

https://twitter.com/TheDesertLynx/status/1743323805764792631

https://twitter.com/michae2xl/status/1742259771133034780

https://twitter.com/zerodartz/status/1743743931282592232

https://twitter.com/Route2FI/status/1743240721627299841

https://twitter.com/TheZebraLounge/status/1744028012486574585

https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-to-sovereign-rollup/46404/92

https://twitter.com/john_justgo/status/1743313553623236921

https://twitter.com/In4Crypto/status/1743336398206484538

https://twitter.com/lukas_kozak_/status/1743983604361810343

https://app.dework.xyz/zechub-2424