I have a question about the shielded address.
1) Can I send coins from a B Address (Transparent) to a Z Address (Private)?
2) Will it work with a Electrum wallet or do I need the full-node
3) If I send it back to a B Address would the block-chain trail be blank or would it pick up were the coins previously left off?
I asking because I want to move my Transparent coins off the grid but also don't want to come back and haunt me later if you know what I mean. Like once the coins get moved into a private address no can see them or know how many there are, but if they ever end up back on a B address would it be traceable back to the original B address it was mined to?
1) Yes you can... But you will need full node desktop wallet to do the transfer for now.
2) Electrum wallet is not supported at the moment. Only full-node wallet.
3) On the blockchain, if you sent from private (P) to transparent (T) address, it will be like BTCP came out of hidden address.
I've started to do this will all of my storage coins. You send from T->P, and get another private address, then from P->P. Your coins are masked and not traceable until you take it out. If you put it in hardware wallet in cold storage, its unlikely it will ever get hacked.