Proposal for a Fresh Zcash

[noamchom]

As transparent addresses are coming back into question again, let me share a great sub-thread from years past:

Leap frogging zaddr

Yeah! No. Anyone can make a billion addresses. Plus there’s no way to see shielded addresses. So this is not useful. This number cannot be known, and if it were it’s meaningless. I can write a script to generate a million of these in a couple of hours. This number cannot be known. Furthermore if it could, I claim it’s irrelevant. (Explained below.) No. It’s easy for me to create a script that generates bazillions of transactions per day because they’re super cheap so far on Zcash. Now t…