How is research on auditing the total number of coins going?

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I’m referring to this comment: Zcash monetary base can't be audited? - #4 by zooko

Has any progress been made here?

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Yes, it seems likely (although a final decision has not been made) that the planned Sapling upgrade will audit the monetary base of all pre-Sapling transactions: Decide how spends from old notes or addresses will work after the Sapling circuit upgrade · Issue #2248 · zcash/zcash · GitHub

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Has a final decision been made yet?

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The rest of the Sapling design hasn’t been specified yet, so no, but I see no obstacle to doing so.

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not sure this is really pressing, ATM! believe, if there’s ever an obviously large divergence between market cap/exchange rate; you’ll know there’s artificial/unexpected supply hitting the market. haven’t seen that happen!

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I would prefer a more concrete alternative to that situation if possible, kek.

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Agreed, If someone were able to mint new coins, they would not suddenly flood the market with millions worth of zec. It would be a slow process, 100zec here 100zec there, cash out. etc.

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absolutely agree, just think we’ll be able to spot artificial supply in the markets until that happens : )

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Any progress on this front yet?

Can anyone give me a concrete answer to the question will we ever be able to count exactly how many zec are out there?

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You can find how many blocks have been mined and multiply it by 12.5. I think that will give you how many coins there are right now.

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Check this and you will know how many ZEC has been mined https://explorer.zcha.in

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if you don’t feel like looking-up how many blocks have been mined, and doing the multiplication; can be lazy, like me, and check coinmarketcap

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@zcashzsmash With 1.0.14 you can audit coin supply:

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