See, I’m not going to make that easy mistake and pretend that I know best.
That’s what ECC and ZF have failed at. They thought because they are the best at cryptography, they can’t be that bad at managing money and planning for the future of Zcash.
Exhibit A of the disconnect between their plans and the reality they have achieved.
I am however confident that resources will be better allocated by people with skin in the game, so that our chances of success are increased. This certainly includes being adopted by more vendors.
That’s quite a loaded question you got there.
Let’s start with clarifying your assumption about my goal: I want for it to be what Bitcoin was meant to be, how Satoshi envisioned it: private, scalable.
How? Like the above, I don’t have the pretension of having all the answers. I am looking forward to getting ZEC holders back into the governance equation so we can all figure out how to achieve our common objectives.
ZEC holders do not just deserve the right to vote on the dev fund: they deserve the right to control it. I have no interest in pursuing fragile governance mechanisms. Sybil resistance or nothing as far as I am concerned.
I don’t feel like waiting for Monero to implement the equivalent of Orchard.
What’s going to be the point of using Zcash then?
We can’t just be bleeding edge, we must be competitive and attractive.
Beside, your argument is broken. It’s not just criminals using Monero. I, a sizeable ZEC stakeholder, use Monero to pay for all the privacy services I use that for some reason are not accepting Zcash (not a single one of them does). I do it because I believe in financial privacy and I will support whoever pushes things in the right direction.
So go for it and have fun at Monero. They are successful. You are not.
Either it works and it is (a privacy enhancing technology) or it doesn’t work and it isn’t. Monero gives a false sense of privacy, so it is the opposite of that.
I don’t. Actually I am quite happy Monero exists, competition is quite important. It can highlight some of our weaknesses.
For us to get more adoption, we really need to catch up on a few things; and that has a cost. We do have a dev fund, which is an amazing feature, but with our current token price, it isn’t worth that much at this point.
There’s a pie composed of people in need for privacy tokens. It’s slowly growing, which is good. However if most of that pie is composed of Monero users, then it’s both bad for those users and bad for us. Bad for those users because they don’t get the privacy they believe they are getting. And bad for us because our token is not priced correctly and it affects our ability to fund what we need to succeed.
The work of @hanh is absolutely awesome, as I have said repeatedly. Voting is a stepping stone to something very important, critical actually: control. Why control? Because only with control, we get Sybil resistance. It’s a cold fact. There’s no shortcut.
There has to be someone in control and currently it is unelected legal entities that can really do whatever they want ultimately. That is absolutely not ok. That is not what resilience and anti-fragility looks like. This is not a path leading to success.
We are not going to get control overnight for the simple reason that we have to figure out the technicalities of how to implement this properly. But if enough ZEC stakeholders express a wish of having 100% of the dev fund managed by them, we’ll have made clear progress.
I just don’t think of myself that much. Feel free to put labels on me though, I’m always curious to observe how people perceive what I do and say.
It helps me to work with you, if I have an understanding of who you are.
It’s not that I need identifying information that you don’t want to share, it’s that the more coherent the facet of you that’s supporting this forum is, the more accurately we can engage each other.
If I know “where you’re coming from” I am less likely to bump into you. It’s like we’re trying to create a unique artistic expression together.. like a dance. If we can find a rhythm we can explore interactions that otherwise wouldn’t be possible.
I believe that’s a reason why it’s quite important to think of yourself, so that you can more skillfully share with others.
That having been said, I do feel like our conversations are helping me (and probably other readers!) to appreciate your ideas and energies. I think this is good for us all.
I will think a bit more about your post, as I think you’ve made some interesting points that I would like to ponder.
That’s precious feedback for me, thank you. It’s certainly challenging to feel at war with the same people I want to collaborate with. We’ve got to fix the system that puts us against each others.
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