Deprecation of T-Addresses

Zcash wants (so so badly) to strive for privacy:

It’s so far failed at that:

I don’t think I counted a single Z address listed here in the comments.

Let’s use this thread to brainstorm on a path for T-addr deprecation.

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Even with t-adds, Zcash still has the largest anon set of any cryptocurrency. So please, explain to me how Zcash has failed to “strive for privacy.”

Hint: you can’t.

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Literally what does that even mean if no one is using shielded transactions/storing funds in the shielded pool?

My car has the most secure alarm, but I always leave the windows down and the doors unlocked!

“no one is using shielded transactions/storing funds in the shielded pool”

Just because you say it doesn’t make it true. Currently ~9% of ZEC is shielded, which IMO is not too bad considering there is no HW wallet support.

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