diff --git a/towards-privacy-by-default.md b/towards-privacy-by-default.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1647140 --- /dev/null +++ b/towards-privacy-by-default.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +# Towards Privacy by Default + +2018.06.26 13:00-14:00 - Nathan Wilcox and Ian Miers + +### Maintaining T vs Z addresses in the protocol + +Beneficial to ZCash to be based off of BTC source code + +Questions around protocol changes: + +- Making shielding transaction mandatory in the next upgrade? +- How do we transition into an entirely shielded addresses protocol? +- How do we get rid of transparent addresses holding funds? + +### Making shielded transactions mandatory + +Removing T-addresses + +**Pros** + +1 address type +UX/Privacy mental model +Remove technical debt +Fungbility of coins + +**Cons** + +Proclude use cases +Proclude better performance +Bitcoin infrastructure compatibility +If Z-addresses banned, no T-addresses to fall back to + +### Questions + +1. How to choose when/if to transition? +2. Is Sapling performance/UX acceptable? +3. How to incentivize 3rd party adoption? +4. What about audits for exchanges/institutions? +5. What about block rewards ? +6. Is this for Sapling or later? +7. When would it be too late? + +Audience: +Chain of provenance: Working with institutions, View keys selective disclosure isn't enough for institutional adoption. + +Audience: +Build a simple and clean user interface that would allow people to use Z addresses in a simpler way helping drive the adoption of Z addresses as the main address type of Zcash hence improving privacy on the blockchain. + +Some exchanges are already working on supporting Sapling.