In my experience, no one I’ve met who works on Zcash is greedy or thinks of the dev fund as free money. Everyone I know works incredibly hard because they care about bringing financial privacy to everyone. If this weren’t the case, I’d be calling them out. A lot of engineers I’ve worked with put in all-nighters and all-weekenders to get things done, doing far more than they get fairly paid for. The “Zcash affliction” isn’t due to anyone’s malice. In my opinion, there’s misguided strategy and misaligned efforts in our decentralized ecosystem, but I can’t think of a single person who isn’t giving their all to make this project work. For things to get better, we need to move past the blame game and recognize that we all share a common goal, that we’ve made mistakes, and try to constructively agree on the best path forward.
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