# Dev Fund 2024: Community Poll & Discussion Megathread **URL:** \ **Category:** Governance\ **Created:** [May 4, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/dev-fund-2024-community-poll-discussion-megathread/44527 "2023-05-04T16:08:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![earthrise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/earthrise/32/11887_2.png) [@earthrise](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/earthrise)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/dev-fund-2024-community-poll-discussion-megathread/44527/20 "2023-05-05T18:09:38Z")
> [@gotope](#): > > Oh god, those who voted to continue the Dev Fund are killing ZEC. I don’t understand why one would argue in favour of no dev fund, could someone help me understand by ~~strawmaning~~ steelmanning that position? If there’s no dev fund, all of the block reward goes to miners, whose function is to provide security against 51% attacks. Protecting against 51% attacks is important, but there’s so many more kinds of security Zcash needs to have; it’s a bleeding-edge cryptographic protocol that needs maintenance and people standing by to run incident responses to be secure. Why should we invest so heavily in a specific kind of security to the determent of all other kinds of security, and avoid rewarding people who contribute code to Zcash? Is it an objection to the current recipients of the dev fund rather than an objection to the concept of a dev fund in general? --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/dev-fund-2024-community-poll-discussion-megathread/44527)._