[ZcF-general] Shielded ZCash at Retail Getting Close! | Feb Grant Progress

[Derrick Freeman]

Hey all,

 
Our Zcash mission:

 
Enable you to pay for goods and services at brick-and-mortar stores using shielded Zcash! More importantly, to give business owners and cashiers instant peace-of-mind that they were paid the correct amount by a customer. They will feel secure and confident even if the customer paid with super secret zcash and even if the merchant does not have their wallet handy.

In February, we progressed toward this goal. We are closing in, and the end is in sight. Our engineers successfully paid test invoices using shielded Zcash.

 
In test one, Zcash was successfully sent from a shielded address to a shielded address and was detected by our system, resulting in a delightful "PAID" message. This means you can pay for goods using shielded Zcash and have it end up in the merchant's wallet still in its shielded form. Pretty cool.

 
In test two, Zcash was successfully sent from a transparent address to a shielded address, and bang -- same thing. The monitor correctly recognized payment to the Z-address. This means that a merchant can set a shielded address for their business, and their customers can pay them with transparent or shielded Zcash, and it will not matter which they send -- it will all end up as shielded Zcash in their wallet. 

 
There is a little configuring we have to do with our API to make sure the PAID screen appears with payments to z-addresses.

 
Best,
 
Derrick J. Freeman

Team Anypay