ECC’s position on the Zcash Dev Fund

[joshs]

Thanks for the perspective. I understand and appreciate it.

@wobbzz

seems to be giving the community an ultimatum

It’s not an ultimatum. ECC’s wallet address will not be encoded on Zcash.
In our opinion, no organization should have its address encoded for the reasons given in the post.

@wobbzz

But, if the community finds value in funding the Zcash Foundation because of their role in supporting Zebrad node development, the node that the community has decided is the best past forward, will ECC support this decision?

We do not think the community should encode any organization’s address in the chain and will advocate to the community that the other options better position Zcash to thrive.

@wobbzz

The question that we got via ZAC today does not show that ECC is listening to the community or intends to accept input from those in the community who have shared opinions that differ from ECC’s views.

If you had selected that you disagree in the survey, you would have been prompted for your perspective on why you disagree. This isn’t governance, and we state that. We are just asking for your opinion.

@wobbzz

Finally, I’m really curious about the differences between the tool that ZF uses to gauge sentiment from ZCAP (Helios) and what ECC is using for this survey (Alchemer). As a survey respondent, is my response anonymous with the rest of the respondents?

Each participant has a unique link. Nothing is shared. Paul is the only one that has access. He has email addresses. Some choose to share their real names, and for some, just pseudonyms.

@wobbzz

Does ECC intend to use their position in their discussions with ZF on dropping their portion of the trademark agreement?

Not at all. I felt it important to be clear about our intentions with the trademark before we stated our position on the development fund so that our governance authority would not be a point of confusion.

If you heard me on the panel at Zcon4 or read my post from around that time, this shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise.

I believe we need more seats at the table, more opportunity for all these new entrants in our ecosystem, greater resiliency, increased decentralization, and accountability for outcomes. It’s time to set Zcash free!