Good point! There is a grant open for more than a month now to fund the best working wallet in the ecosystem and to integrate its fast syncing method into Zcash libraries for others to use. Yet I have not seen any public facing movement about its progression…
It won’t be a cure all, but would be a step in the right direction to help make UX more resilient from what I can tell.
What do you think about funding that grant @NaomiBrockwell?
P.S. Which wallet have you been using during the high network load?
P.S.S. If I were to suggest one thing to help make this discussion productive, it would be to compartmentalize concerns. We all want a better UX for Zcash. The question is, what can the community do about it with its share of the dev fund? I think everyone will feel a lot better if we focus on that and outline concrete solutions to that problem.
Step 1, for me, seems to be funding Ywallet and working with the developer to keep improving it. At the same time, paying the developer to integrate warp sync for others to use. I personally think that if Zcash forks out 500k to fund Ywallet and warp sync integration, then a re-brand to a Zcash first wallet is reasonable. Additionally, funding this wallet sends a strong signal that Zcash pays its devs and it can be used as an example to attract others to build with us.
What other steps do others here think we can take to improve UX that don’t solely rely on waiting for ECC’s wallet?
P.S.S.S. There is no active grant request, nor will there be in the future, from Zcash Media that advocates for a large media blitz while UX is not improved. I nonetheless think that certain media upkeep, perhaps largely catered to folks more “in-the-know” aka cryptotwitter people, can help keep up morale and invite in others to the mission of Zcash. Additionally, certain aspects of media are useful for those in the ecosystem who are working to explain Zcash and Web3 encryption technologies to regulators (people who may never download a Zcash wallet, but could make all of our lives much more easy or difficult depending on their view of things like Zcash.). This belief was strengthened in me by my interactions with ECC’s regulatory folks at Zcon3, as well as my interactions with Peter van Valkenburgh during the initial production of our first video. But, I repeat, it’s not even up for discussion at this point, or the very near future, so focusing our efforts on how we can take actionable steps to improve UX given the community has the largest slice of the dev fund seems to me to be the best use of everyone’s time and brain power.