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@daira

Yes we know. Tex addresses were a mistake. That was acknowledged long ago: No Appeasement. ECC Update - #11 by daira

As a long time critic of ECC I was extremely pleased to read this. Thank you for drawing attention to the No Appeasement post.

Can I ask you about the following two paragraphs so I don’t make any incorrect assumptions?

@daira

It’s part of my job to consider the overall cost/benefit of proposed features from ECC’s point of view, and I don’t think I did so with sufficient skepticism in this case. Features that aren’t directly focused on directly improving privacy or the usability and applicability of the shielded protocol, at this point in Zcash’s evolution, need to clear a higher bar.

@daira

We should be focusing on decentralized exchanges. Many critics of ZIP 320 said so at the time, and they were right. The mistake here was in thinking that we would have enough bandwidth to do both. But in fact this has distracted to some extent from work toward DEX support. This was also predictable without hindsight.

Firstly I love your first paragraph including the bolding the word shielded.

In the second paragraph id like to clarify what type of DEX support you mean. I would be thrilled if you mean Zcash shielded DEX integrations (which I know are much more complicated to engineer but I believe are essential to grow Zcash shielded adoption).

Im very saddened by the time and money that have been spent on integrating Zcash transparent DEX support (easier and cheaper but also taking time and resources away the shielded engineering work you mention).

Are we on the same page? Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts.