# Announcing Ycash, The First "Friendly Fork" of the Zcash Blockchain

**URL:** https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/announcing-ycash-the-first-friendly-fork-of-the-zcash-blockchain/33162
**Category:** Community Collaborations
**Created:** [April 11, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/announcing-ycash-the-first-friendly-fork-of-the-zcash-blockchain/33162 "2019-04-11T14:42:20Z")
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### Author: ![garethtdavies](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/garethtdavies/32/210_2.png) [@garethtdavies](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/garethtdavies)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/announcing-ycash-the-first-friendly-fork-of-the-zcash-blockchain/33162/3 "2019-04-11T15:17:07Z")

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This is an interesting development and I look forward to contributing where I can. If feasible I think it would make sense to deprecate Sprout at launch.

Not to get too off track but just to be clear on the Founders’ Reward stuff I don’t think anyone has ever expressed a desire to extend that? What I, among others, have suggested is a new development fund as a % of the block reward managed by the Foundation to fund continued development. This is critically different to simply extending the payouts to founders/investors.

That being said the focus on community mining is a good one and one that hopefully will benefit the upstream project.

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