Workshop: Host your own Zcash servers

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@emersonian

It is our belief that any self-hosted light wallet server, even if imperfect, is better than relying on centralized options.

Science is not about beliefs!!

This type of approximate security works for Monero, not for Zcash. It’s certainly your right, but I don’t like that you are making it sound like your suggestion of running personal lightwallet nodes is a minor issue. It is not:

@anon920

It is thus of critical importance to your privacy that you DO NOT use your own personal node to broadcast your transactions, because doing so reveals that the transaction was initiated from your (node’s) IP address.

@anon920

These are not hypothetical or rare attacks. These are two of the primary methods that adversaries like Chainalysis use to weaken user privacy. For nearly every transaction that takes place on every major cryptocurrency network, Chainalysis (and likely others) can do a DB query and see an associated IP address of either the node or the RPC user that submitted that transaction.

We should use our time and financial resources to build methods that are improving the network, improving the privacy of our users. Weakening it is just plain bad, unless you have conflicting interests in this story.