Measuring Shielded Adoption

Updated the first post charts for July during which there was a significant decrease in shielded usage :arrow_down:

I’ll add in the charts next time, but as has been mentioned on this thread there are still 0 shielded coinbase transactions. For context, there have been ~20,000 blocks mined since Heartwood activation.

I also took a look in July at the breakdown of fully shielded transactions included in blocks. Just 3,133 blocks (that’s 8.8%) had at least one fully shielded transaction (i.e. z2z). So that’s 91.2% of all Zcash blocks mined in July did not contain any fully shielded transactions.

Breaking down those 3,133 blocks that contained fully shielded transactions, most contained just 1.

Also, for context, here’s a breakdown of the number of transactions in each block - there were 7910 (~22%) empty Zcash blocks in July (as the coinbase transaction is also included here).

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