Andrew Arnott 🛡️

Principal Software Engineer. This is not my employer's account. I have a wonderful family and faith in a real, bona-fide Heavenly Father. Will work for Zcash.

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

https://t.co/H3F4PfkwtB

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

StyleCop 1.3 is released. The last stable release was April 2019. Active issues dropped from 400+ to just 48. Go get it today!
https://t.co/GYLo4NsY6A

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

@Tripleyouwu Wow. That's a deep biological take on the answer. Thanks.

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

You're sitting in a hot plane, but you have a water bottle with cold water in it. You drink some. It feels cool, but you wonder if your average body temperature actually fell. After all, the heat drawn from your body went into the water which is now in your body. Did it? Explain.

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

Perhaps. Although if I ever went that direction I think I'd just charge a flat fee. The cost to the service operator is the same regardless of the value of the transactions. I don't believe in profit sharing with a service provider. Can you imagine a data center charging based on how much money you make with their hardware?

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

@0xCryptoGoodies Saw Crypto Goodies takes ZEC via NOWPayments. I built a free, self-hosted shielded ZEC checkout (viewing key only, no fees) and I'm offering white-glove setup for a couple of pilot shops—happy to do the WooCommerce integration myself if you want it.

Docs: https://t.co/V34TEwijS1
Overview: https://t.co/SQFka8SE8K

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

@TomZarebczan @0xCryptoGoodies Yes, that would work. It would be more expensive though, so may be less economical for the merchant than self hosting.

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

@TomZarebczan @0xCryptoGoodies I could potentially offer one, but my first intent is fee-less and highest privacy level, and that's harder to achieve with a hosted option.

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

@TomZarebczan @0xCryptoGoodies I don't understand your question. The payment processor is designed to be self-hosted. A UIVK is the minimal requirement for noticing incoming payments and that's all it requires.

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

@xsmryze Github Copilot's Fusion does this internally too, as I understand it.

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

Guess what? I'm pulling my apps from the EEA and UK. Google Play (thankfully) only shows my PII in those countries, so by removing my apps from those countries, my information stays private.

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

All Google Play app authors must now consent to having their address and phone number posted publicly with their app. For hobbyists, this means their home address. Not cool, EEA and UK!

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

@TomZarebczan @cipherpay_app Great question. Answer already in the docs: https://t.co/Btm2EyAowy

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

I applied for a Zcash coinholder retroactive grant: https://t.co/pXYqcUlG02

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

I'm embarrassed to say I pasted the wrong link. This is the grant proposal I meant to share: https://t.co/vbfHZ0C43e

The Zcash payment processor post that I inadvertently linked to is just a call out for users. I do plan on requested a grant for that payment processor as well.

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

@ZkAv_Club Sure

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

@_Eph91_ @eosionemesis Does Bitcoin validate or invalidate your thesis that ASIC != decentralized and that only decentralized survives?

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

My controversial Zcash take regarding ASICs

ASICs securing the network are a good thing. Changing the Zcash algorithm to defeat ASICs would be a bad move. Here's why:

1. ASICs securing the network means a higher hash rate to what CPU/GPU mining would.
2. A 51% attack that uses ASICs can be mitigated by changing the algorithm, rendering the ASICs useless. But the same attack mounted with only CPUs cannot be defeated except by recruiting more CPUs to join a minority pool.
3. If a nation state or other large actor wanted to carry out a 51% attack, it is far easier to acquire CPU mining hardware than ASIC mining hardware.

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

@stansimon @hammerandnigel Ah hah! That makes sense. Thanks.