EIP ERC App Keys: application specific wallet accounts

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Cross-referencing to a recent post by someone who was pointing out that we should value privacy more

Meta: we should value privacy more

Right now, Ethereum privacy is quite lacking. There are two reasons why. First, all of your activity is by default done through a single account, so it is all linkable on-chain. Second, and more insidiously, even if you have multiple accounts that you split your activity between (ideally, the default would be to use a different account for each application), the fact that you need to transfer ETH between accounts to pay for gas on all of them is itself a privacy leak. This is a situation that c…