Anti-fud Campaign; T Addresses

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The Future of Zcash

Unless ECC has changed its policy since the end of January, neither the Foundation nor ECC believe that it would be wise to switch off t-addresses (or disable t :arrow_right:t transfers) at this time. Coincidentally, the Foundation engineers raised this topic on an Arborist call late last year (while I was still at ECC), and I put together a presentation that outlined what we/ECC believes needs to happen before t-addresses could be deprecated, without risking severe adverse consequences (e.g. …

Principles for deprecating t2t transactions

We should deprecate purely transparentem (t2t) transactions eventually. Keep t2z so you can move old money into the shielded pool. To quote @aiyadt “It’s literally not Zcash” : t2t transactions have no zero-knowledge in them. This is an issue of principles if we care about privacy. It’s also an issue of commitment and signaling. To claim purely transparent transactions offer “the best of both worlds” conceptually undermines our principles and the one thing that differentiates zcash. It’s a l…