Future of Zcash dev funding — megathread / everything in one place

[joshs]

@JamesTodaroMD

Who decided that ZIP proposals are due Aug 31, well over a year in advance of the first halving and conveniently only a month or two after the ECC’s/Zooko’s push for a renewed dev fund?

For funding? I expect this conversation will extend well beyond the 31st. But the Aug 31 ZIP deadline for submission drafts is general and part of the standard schedule for NUs in order to safely design, test, audit and release major upgrades. See: GitHub - zcash/zips: Zcash Improvement Proposals

@JamesTodaroMD

As “neutral parties”, Zooko/ECC/ZF should treat all legitimate dev fund proposals equally. This includes comments/discussion on the forums here as well as comments/retweets/likes on Twitter and other social media platforms.

Let’s revisit after we release our responses to proposals.

@JamesTodaroMD

I also would say it’s disingenuous to verbalize the part of being a “neutral party” when it is quite clear the ECC is pushing for the largest dev fund possible that is still tolerable by the community (e.g. 20%). Do you not disagree?

We have a desire to see Zcash thrive and we want to participate. We aren’t “neutral” in that way. We think we’ve got a remarkably gifted team, our passions are fully aligned, and think we could do great things for the community. Far from disingenuous, its very real and honest.