# Privacy Metrics

2018.06.26 14:10-15:10 - Brad Miller and Eirik Ogilvie-Wigley

https://beta.z.cash/metrics/

We could look at https://metrics.torproject.org/ for inspiration

Also https://zcha.in/statistics/usage

Self-auditing tools to check your privacy score

Add an option to randomize the time at which a transaction is sent

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What can benefit the Zcash community to fully adopt Z-addresses? 

Coming up with metrics 

Shielded transaction: Z address to Z address. The only thing that is exposed is the transaction fee.

Run ZCash on TOR to be safe from leaking IP information.

Point 1: 
User interface to enhance the perception of shielded address

Point 2:
Institutions prefer T-addresses due to technical reasons, it's cheap computationally. Without institutions supporting Z-addresses it'll be too hard to get it off the ground. 

Point 3:
Business analytics (understanding adoption) and metrics on how the network operates and what the community actually wants/needs.

Ideas for metrics:

IP address linkability
Fee linkability
Linkability via peer preference through transactions entering the mempool

Ideas for improving privacy:

Privacy score: giving users a privacy score in their wallet (gamifying UX - give people a bad score if they are doing something wrong)