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Self nomination: Moe Adham

2018-Q2/Board-Nominations/moe_adham_nomination.md

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+# Moe Adham
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+I, Moe Adham, hereby nominate myself for the Zcash Foundation Board of Directors.
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+## Motivation
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+I feel that privacy centric payment solutions are in short supply, and under active threat of censorship. I feel my industry knowledge and relationships might help steer the foundation with a long-term goal of ensuring privacy is never at risk.
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+## Goals for the Foundation
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+The Zcash foundation has done a commendable job to date, and I am very thankful for their stewardship. The stated mission of the foundation to ensure this project remain always a tool for financial privacy available to the general public is a noble one.
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+I am hoping to assist the foundation in areas in which I am expert. These Include:
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+- Academic research efforts of ZK systems
+- Enabling wider adoption of Zcash while maintaining privacy, specifically with respect to client implementations and support
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+## My Background/CV
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+I founded Bitaccess.ca in 2013. We are one of the largest Bitcoin ATM producers in the world. Privacy has always been one of our core values. Through this work, I have witnessed a rather startling effort by the industry to monitor and de-anonymise the bitcoin network. I have unique insights into the specific models institutions and governments are utilizing to reduce privacy on public blockchain networks. It is for this reason that I am interested in ensuring that systems such as Zcash remain laser focused on privacy.
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+Before founding Bitaccess, I obtained a Masters of Nanotechnology from the Swiss Institute of Technology. I'm quite well versed in all subjects related to chip design/ASIC technology. I got my start in Bitcoin by mining Bitcoins using FPGA's (VHDL) I had access to at EPFL in 2011. I have a very good idea of what makes an algorithm ASIC resistant, for example.
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+I hope to assist the board in technical related subjects. These would include threat modelling and appropriate responses (ex. nation states, miners, forks, etc). I would also like to augment relationships with the academic community to ensure empirical research continues on the privacy modelling of the Zcash protocol.
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+At Bitaccess, we've built a pretty great access point for cryptocurrencies through our BTM product, as well as our private exchange https://faa.st. I speak frequently at conferences in North america and europe, with a special focus on academic and governmental issues.
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+We also do a good amount of work with Governments to increase transparency and auditability https://explorecatena.com. Through this work, I am able to gain unique insight into methods and models which governments are using to regulate and monitor public blockchain networks.
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+Location: CANADA (Eastern Standard Time)
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+LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moeadham/
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+E-mail: moeadham _AT_ protonmail.com
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