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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
- How to choose when/if to transition?
- Is Sapling performance/UX acceptable?
- How to incentivize 3rd party adoption?
- What about audits for exchanges/institutions?
- What about block rewards ?
- Is this for Sapling or later?
- 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.