I’m writing this just five days before Ironwood—Zcash’s new shielded pool—goes live, shifting Orchard to a withdrawal-only mode.
I understand that most wallets will support the new pool upon Ironwood’s activation. However, I also know that wallets are working on a migration process to make the transition easier for users (from Orchard to Ironwood). So far, I’ve only found information regarding Zodl and Zkool.
Zodl has published a detailed article providing context and explaining the migration process via their own interface.
Since the wallet serves as the user’s direct link to the Zcash network, I think that—with the update just five days away—we should already be seeing educational materials designed to prepare beginner-to-intermediate users.
Could wallet developers share how they are handling this?
Once Ironwood activates, user can send funds to a shielded address (including your own) the usual way. By doing this, you’re still moving funds from Orchard to Ironwood.
While the sender and receiver stay hidden
Note — protect your IP during migration: For full privacy, turn on a network privacy tool before you migrate — we recommend NymVPN (nym.com), which routes your whole connection through the Nym mixnet.
Although the wallets will follow a technical standard, it could be confusing for novice users since each wallet has a different interface and graphics, so these visual tutorials are very valuable.
Thank you. The suggestion about using Nym or something similar is very important. I also suggest you create a video tutorial. I always think that some users have little experience with the products, and it’s good to consider them. Zodl and Vizor have already created tutorials on how to migrate step-by-step from their own wallets.
FYI, we have made NymVPN free for the Ironwood migration! Do feel free to try it out and send us some feedback: Free NymVPN for Zcash's Ironwood migration | Nym . We can create a video tutorial for using NymVPN during Ironwood migration too, that’s a great idea @palmar
Nym is a great project. Next month we will be doing an activity with Diana (Nym ambassador in Spanish) and the Club Zcash Querétaro that I run here in Mexico (I believe Diana is requesting the resources to be able to travel to Querétaro).
Regarding your comment: Nym has been working very well so far. A tutorial would be great, as I know people who aren’t very used to using these tools but are interested; a tutorial would be very helpful for them.
Microsoft assigns devices a global ID, that basically nullifies the use of VPNs. You may want to advise people switch to Linux as part of any how-tos/tutorials/articles.