Zcash Sustainability and Resilience
summary
Argues that the current dev fund slices (reported as 80% to miners, 8% to ZCG, 7% to ECC, 5% to Zcash Foundation but with the Foundation practically controlling an 8% subset), create trade-offs between independence and accountability, and that resilience is measurable by the number of independent sustainable organizations (examples: three, two, or one). Lists four failure modes—external attack, internal attack, underperformance, and ubiquitous special‑interest bias—notes a Cayman subsidiary was formed to reduce US legal limits, and gives one concrete rule: do not put all eggs into one basket.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Zcash governance overview
- 1:25Dev fund design trade-offs
- 3:15Current dev fund distribution
- 5:42Grant restrictions and legal limits
- 7:48Three views of dev fund structure
- 9:58Resilience metric for orgs
- 11:48Governance failure modes
- 16:28Special interest risks
- 18:38Resilient governance recs
- 19:19Q&A funding privacy projects
- 20:54Q&A governance objectives
- 22:54Q&A five-year goals
- 24:20Q&A global diversity
- 25:44Q&A decentralization
- 26:06Q&A dev fund setup
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