Learning from NU5 Retro - Communication & Narrative

[hanh]

@zkcroc

Since the spam attacks have been vanquished the zcash blockchain works really well for transactions and messaging, surely a suite of apps can be built around that which also rakes a fee in the transaction? There are lots of things people need privacy for right NOW which zcash can be applied to (password managers, private messaging app like session, decentralised file hosting?) Im sure there are better ideas than mine out there but you get the point.

Technically, the spam has not been vanquished. It has been made too expensive. But if there are more “organic” transactions, it will get bad again.

Zemo: Shielded Messaging🛡️

I’m for free-speech and privacy but I really don’t want to have messages on the blockchain. It’s one thing to be able to have any conversation, it’s another to force everyone to get your words. In my opinion, it doesn’t benefit zcash and in the long run even hurt it by bloating the blockchain forever.