Do you support deprecating Sprout?

[Tsupportisharmful]

@Autotunafish

Users were warned abundantly then and throughout that time to move out of Sprout while the pools functionality was whittled down to that being literally the only thing they can do.

There are people with Sprout funds that came to Zcash because they care deeply about privacy. The only “procedure” that has ever allowed for Sprout migration (via turnstile) is completely unacceptable to some people as it requires the use of the transparent pool. To some Zcash will become a complete failure if shielded funds are ultimately lost forever for all users that refuse to use transparent Zcash.

The privacy preserving answer is below. It just needs to be built to avoid the loss of shielded funds/privacy loss choice where privacy purist users are still stuck with.

@pacu

Although, I remember that at some point it was discussed that it could be possible to issue the value stored in the sprout pool as a ZSA and let its owners redeem it by proving its ownership. That way you could zSprout in the orchard pool instead of turnstiling to sapling.