Coin Voting v2

Vote anonymously using your shielded ZEC, where your stake equals your voting power.

Opportunities

• Governance
• Proof of Balance
• Polls
• Airdrops

High Level Description

I organized a few coin-weighted votes last summer about the devfund.

• The Last Minute Shielded Petition
• Coin Weighted Poll

1. The pollster, in this case, me, would like to have the opinion of the community of Zcash holders.
2. He defines an eligibility window of blocks. Only Orchard notes created during these blocks can be used for voting.
3. At the end of the window, zcash holders can "cast" their votes using the ZEC they have.
4. They can vote using their wallet app (Ywallet at the moment)

This was Coin Voting v1.

Learning from these experiments, I am proposing an improved version.

Coin Voting V2

1. The eligibility window may be extended to cover all of the Orchard notes at the expense of requiring more compute and bandwidth
2. Splitting notes is not necessary. Voters can cast multiple ballots (for different options)
3. Voters can delegate their voting power to other people
4. Some voters can be granted voting power not associated with ZEC
5. The pollster can prove in ZK that the tally of the votes is correct