ECC’s position on the Zcash Dev Fund

[wobbzz]

Understood on ECC’s position. Thanks for making that clear, as well as ECC’s intentions with the trademark.

@joshs

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.

@paulbrigner

TL;DR : Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is launching the Zcash Ad Hoc Caucus (ZAC) as a temporary mechanism to inform ECC’s view of the Zcash community consensus regarding the upcoming expiration and renewal of the development fund. The ZAC corresponds to Zcash Foundation’s ZCAP. ZAC will consist of diverse participants from the Zcash ecosystem, including builders, ECC and Zcash Foundation affiliates, miners, and others, to ensure decisions on the development fund renewal reflect a broad consensus beyond those active on the Forum or in the ZCAP. Additional details on ZAC, including how to join, will be announced later this week.

My understanding of ZAC is that it was to be used as a mechanism to inform ECC’s view of the Zcash community’s consensus and that input obtained from ZAC would be used to ensure decisions on the development fund renewal reflect a broad consensus.

I was taken aback when the survey didn’t include other proposals discussed in the community.

• Question 1 asks about my overall reaction to ECC’s position. I selected neutral here so I didn’t see an option for more feedback.
• Question 2 asks me to choose between the 2 options of ECC’s position. This didn’t seem too inviting to opinions other than ECC’s.

@joshs

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.

Thanks for clarifying. If I’m reading |between the lines| correctly, ECC can see who wrote what response based on the info you have about them and the correlation to their unique link.