Ian Miers: Board elections, the foundation's mission, and making usable privacy a reality

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I wrote my response to this here. In 2016:

Some usability / adoptability suggestions

I have some high-level suggestions for the Zcash team in the area of the overall usability and public adoptability of Zcash. These are ultimately based on some Really Deep Thoughts about the nature of money in human culture, but I'll spare you the metaphysics. My assumption, following the Hello World blog post, is that Zcash is about the private, trust-less, non-intermediated transfer of value from party A to party B and that any other uses (smart contracts, yada yada yada) are totally inciden…

whole thread is worth reading.