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Another important way to help people handle blockchain growth:

As a separate issue, the status of pruning in zcashd:

How does that help users who want for their own Zcash wallets to have the full privacy and security of a full node?

In Bitcoin, the principal argument for individuals and businesses to run nodes is self-interest aligned with the common good: Be Your Own Bank. Bitcoin Validators who enforce the consensus rules don’t need any direct financial compensation, because the security and privacy benefits of your own full node are payment enough—and the costs of running a Bitcoin Validator are so low.

Multiply and exponentiate this for Zcash. I sometimes run a zcashd but no bitcoind, because running your own node on your own hardware, under your physical control is critical for gaining the full privacy benefits of Zcash. And privacy is the reason to use Zcash. If you can’t run your own Zcash node, why bother?

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