congratulations on getting this up and running zooko and company! i’ve been following zerocash since the first paper was put out and find it very interesting. while the notion of a totally private cryptocurrency gives me the warm fuzzies, i was apprehensive about the presence of a trusted setup phase when the blockchain is started.
does the trusted setup phase still exist with zcash? i admit that i haven’t been keeping up with the latest articles, so i may well have missed one where you have fixed this issue.
can we get a free version of that paper? not all of us are members of ieee, although i will go bark at my electrical engineer buddies to try and grab this for me
After reading these texts I understand that this is still in development stage and that you’re looking at ways of reducing risk with methods such as with trusted multi party private key holders. A solution that is as close to a trustless network is the most advantageous. How do you ensure that there are enough multi party private key holders and that they can be trusted. Have you found a way to reduce the risk. What in your opinion would be a trusted party(s)?
