At the moment ring signatures are more eficient than zk-SNARKS, but as fluffypony already comment, probably any cryptocurrencie in the future will use this technology. Can monero implement zk-SNARKS in the future if needed? How can it be done?
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Riccardo has mentioned that zk-SNARKs could be used in temporary sidechains. There is no official plan laid out yet to my knowledge.
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Why? I don't think it make sense to do with the main chain at all.
I could be wrong but I think to begin those types of ‘shielded’ transactions you first have to perform a type of trusted setup where a key becomes split into shards. This seems silly to me...even if they find a way to do it without an initial trusted key; it seems pointless for Monero at the moment where its own privacy methods seem adequate.
In the future... maybe ... but, again, why?
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