Coinholder Polling on Governance and Funding

[aquietinvestor]

If you haven’t already done so, please try this:

@aquietinvestor

when you create a new election, you’ll see a switch for “Internal Wallet” that allows the app to scan for funds stored in internal accounts, like those used by Zashi, Edge, eZcash, and other wallets that follow ZIP 316. This is to address an issue where users of these wallets did not see their full balance available to vote. If you hold ZEC in both internal and external accounts, you’ll need to cast your vote twice: once with the switch turned on, and once with it turned off.

Here’s the background on the issue, which impacts any wallet that follows ZIP 316.

@aquietinvestor

We’ve received reports from some users whose voting power does not reflect their full ZEC balance, even though their coins were transferred to the Orchard pool before the registration deadline. In one example, a user withdrew ZEC from a centralized exchange to a transparent address in Zashi, then shielded the funds into the Orchard pool.

The root cause is related to how internal keys are derived. For example, Zashi creates separate internal accounts when handling actions like shielding. The current version of the Coin Voting 2.0 app does not yet support scanning multiple internal key paths, so it may miss balances stored in these internal accounts.