I agree that getting info on these would be a hard task. But we immediatly could get a map with RED countries, in the meaning of impossible mining operations, by given electricity prices. This as well would give a good picture what countries/regions get excluded/unprofitable for mining. With each “red” region we get a shifting towards the remaining lowest electricity countries/regions, not?
As these mining operations of scale are anyway in most cases suited/placed in such very low electricity regions it doesn’t really matter if we know there electricity costs as research is based geographically, not on single mining operations. Just an idea in case the foundation/zcash have in interest of avoiding geographical mining centralization at all.
No, and if we did, we wouldn’t have any more information than the blockchain or other entities who run widely connected nodes.
Nope!
No plans!
We’re not aware of any illicit use, nor would we have any special insight. Third-party wallets and exchanges which collect KYC data would probably be the best place to gather any relevant data like this from.
We would like to clarify the reference wallet is not for end users, and that we have not committed to deploying a wallet for users to use Zcash as a currency.
The objective of this project is to prove that shielded transactions can work on mobile devices and to build reusable solutions for functionality required to support shielded addresses.
We are already in contact with some light wallets that support Zcash, and they are very eager for the reference wallet. We hope that this helps their engineering teams adopt sapling zaddresses.
We’re currently debating if we should also make an accompanying Zcash wallet for end users–and the decision is not set to be made until next year. We’ll keep you posted and announce if we decide to make a product!
I hear you on wanting to spend Zcash for everyday items. We realize that point of sales support/merchant support is a weak link in the purchase process.
ok, i didn’t know that.
if i could choose, i would prefer using a wallet the zcash company has made.
‘‘I hear you on wanting to spend Zcash for everyday items. We realize that point of sales support/merchant support is a weak link in the purchase process’’ - i agree on that, but i’m still optimistic.
We think this would be a fascinating project; with competing priorities we don’t think we’ll get to soon and we very much encourage the community to take up the mantle!
Maybe we can work together to do that? Let’s take clips from the 30 minute talk and intersplice it with our own comments? I will do the video editing if you can help me finalize the “script”
Earlier today i asked @joshs if Zcash would ever create a decetralized exchange where pairs would be against Zcash, and he referred me to ShapeShift, but like other users like @hanswurst33 , I think exchange made by Zcash company would be more trusted, it would give a stream of revenue to Zcash company and add another usecase for Zcash.
Yeah, I’m actually the one responsible for making the business case for building a Zcash wallet made by Zcash, and that is one of the benefits that I mention:
Capitalize on trusted status: Users will flock to a Zcash live wallet to maximize privacy and minimize the risk of losing funds due to low quality code or being compromised by a malicious application.
With the other benefits being:
Direct user interaction: LW means we communicate directly with real end users, generate user data to inform future iterations, can set defaults for users, highlight zcash-specific features, and design own user flow, indicators, and words.
Delight customers: LW gives users a way to use Zcash to pay peers or buying goods/services, shielded by default. The Zcash user survey shows this is what they want: links to portals to buy goods with Zcash and easy fiat on and off ramps, even over shielded addresses (full survey results and link in Appendix 6).
Strategic advantage: Our wallet features won’t be the lowest common denominator between 50 currencies, but great, curated features for Zcash. Wallets create multi-currency wallets so that they can have revenue; most wallets’ revenue comes from a cut of exchange fees. I.e.: Jaxx gets a cut of all exchanges made via its ShapeShift integration when a user converts one cryptocurrency to another. We won’t put user needs as a secondary consideration.
I think to be honest the real elephant in the room is the bear market, and in my opinion it’s more of a question of “now or later” vs “yes or no.”
Agreed that services made by Zcash company would be more trusted, but there’s a balance of resources. The company is currently focused on the most important aspect: maintaining the infrastructure that underlies all these services.
now there are more reasons why i want the wallet to come from the zcash company
maybe supporting bitcoin inside your wallet? integrate XCAT for atomic swaps between BTC and Zcash?
would it be possible to send BTC via an atomic swap and receive Zcash in a shielded way?
There are so many reasons! I am a UX researcher by trade so just the idea of standardizing all the things and getting user data seems nice…
Oh man! We’re just working on some basic things, like supporting sapling addresses, depreciating taddrs, turnstiles, local address books, and some better organizational features. So your suggestions seem great but they seem more like v…5? features.
Can we freely use the Zcash brand name and logo to develop legal services around Zcash, or have a blog or website that introduces Zcash? i.e. Someone was selling a zcash domain name at some point on Reddit and was concerned that he would get in trouble for doing that. What is the company’s point of view about that?
I understand legally the Zcash company could sue people for the use of the Zcash brand, but I remember reading somewhere that it would not happen for X reason I forgot. Is that still the case?