Can we have privacy and compliance at the same time? with Jonathan Rouach- ZconV: Zcash Unified 2024
For Zcash to be adopted widely in the real-world, to be useful to all and to be robust to regulatory pressure, we need means to deter obviously-bad uses of the network. In this talk we'll review possible designs for digital assets over Zcash, which balance privacy for users and legal requirements, in the context of Zcash Shielded Assets.
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Technical Level: Intermediate
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Contradiction: legitimate use vs potential abuse
04:27 Meta Problem, the different perspectives
07:7:03 New developments going in wrong direction
11:18 What can we do? QEDIT building ZSAs
11:49 ZSAs Use-case and Role of Stablecoins
14:49 Q?: Good vs bad use of privacy
17:27 QEDITs Proposal: Compliance-Friendly Functionality
19:41 Future research questions and considerations
24:12 Why is QEDIT doing this? For humanity!
28:47 Benefits of Zcash Ecosystem
30:43 Q?: Is there a framework to navigate changes effectively for developers?
32:49 Q?: Does limiting data reveal conflict with regulation on sanctioned addresses?
35:32 Q?: Should compliance treat regulators as potential adversaries for security?
39:28 Q?: Why not add compliance for ZEC now?
41:19 Q?: Won't mandatory compliance make issuers fearful?
44:: 59 Q?: Will Bits of Gold launch the 1st stablecoin for ZSAs?
Speaker:
Jonathan S. Rouach is the co-founder and CEO of QEDIT, offering advanced privacy solutions for blockchain. Before that, he co-founded a blockchain security company (acquired), co-founded the Israeli Bitcoin Association , and co-founded Bits of Gold, the leading cryptocurrency broker in Israel. Jon serves as Executive Director at ZKProof.org, which standardizes Zero-Knowledge Proofs. He is an Electrical Engineer from the Technion, served as an analyst in the Israeli Intelligence, advised the Israel Securities Authority and the World Economic Forum in Davos. Twitter: @jonrouach
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