Sarah's story: from losing her savings to 23.79+ ZEC in shielded tips

If you haven’t, it’s worth reading in full: x.com zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko Just tipped the barista, Sarah, at the neighborhood coffee shop, in Zcash. Sarah has been accepting tips in Zcash for about five years (and not just from me). ⤵️ 2:29 PM - 31 Oct 2026 280 17 Here’s the short version, and what’s happened since. October 31 Zooko tipped Sarah in Zcash, the way he and others have for about five years. Then he shared what happened to her a couple of months earlier. Scammers who knew her name, her workplace, her boss and her Square account called her at work, said her boss had been arrested, and tricked her into emptying her account. Square couldn’t help her. Her bank couldn’t help her. But they didn’t know she had Zcash. She sold some of her saved-up tips for the first time, paid her rent and refilled her bank account. Zooko ended the thread with three words that say it all: “Privacy is security.” November 3 People asked how they could send Sarah a shielded welcome message and a tip, and Zooko shared her Zcash address. That same day, the community launched a coin, $SARAH,