Let’s revisit the topic of stakeholder voting, now that several feedback mechanisms are under way for NU4. So far, we’re actively collecting inputs from a forum poll, a helios vote among the Community Advisory Panel, and even instructions to miners , all about approval voting over 13 zip proposals about a dev fund. Unfortunately so far, there’s been no instructions about how to vote if you’re a coinholder.
The good news is: the stakeholder polling mechanism initiated in this thread can be still be used to vote in the ongoing Q32019 community sentiment collection.
The instructions are simple enough:
To vote for NU4 dev fund proposals, put your stake in a t-address, and send a memo from that t-address to the stake polling address:
zs1ud5cyusgfsqgkfqlxery0ttyvuvj66wztlqgv8tc4qaukaeaejxj7u70j0qgcctjfvzuzadejxd
Encoding your vote: Follow the same convention as in the instructions to miners.
For each of the 13 proposals, give the number followed by the vote, Y/N/A (Yes/No/Abstain).
An example encoding is:
1Y2Y3N4N5Y6A7A8N9Y10N11N12Y13Y
which would be interpreted as "1 Yes, 2 Yes, 3 No, …7 Abstain,… 13 Yes’. So it’s approval voting on the 13 proposals.
Keep your coins in the same t-address. Your vote is weighted based on the amount of ZEC held in the t-address at the time we declare a cut-off time and count the votes. This can be fiddly, since by default Zecwallet sends change away from your original t-address and back to some different change address. If this happens, you can just send the balance back again to your original t-address.
Checking up on the votes: The original post includes an incoming view key, so that anyone running the viewing-key development branch of zcashd can follow along with the memos that have been sent.
I’m also providing a best-effort view of the current voting memos and current t-balances.
Privacy / unshielding concerns. Ideally this would be secret ballot, but the need to use t-addresses makes this tricky. If you just use an existing t-address, you should expect that your vote will be publicly linked to that t-address. If you are using a shielded address and want to participate, this is at your own risk, since it’s generally recommended for privacy your keep coins in the unshielded address. You could send ZEC from a z-address to a t-address, unshielding them just to vote, and send them back after the polling period ends.