Idea, a proof of research chain like gridcoin (because of the aforementioned reasons) where people earn Zcash (simply) using boinc
No transactions besides the mining payout and sending from researchers address (ZR maybe) to the original chain (ZS) occur, no coins can be sent back from the main chain to the research chain (this prevents pools but no real need for pools anyways with this setup)
Instead of time locking the mining reward it should time lock the ability to send to the original chain giving the researcher the option to stake or do nothing and wait
Outgoing offchain sends and staking would be problematic, if it were possible to create a function to prevent the effective amount of coins Staked to half that exist at that block then no more than 50% could ever be staked (say 1 million coins total, 750,000 Stake, everybody’s effective stake diminishes by 33% of their total Stakes if thats possible or even necessary?)
Since ZR2 ZR transactions are prevented stakes can never be combined (perhaps the blocks intervals are incredibly long and outgoing (ZR2 ZS) transactions and their confirmations would take a long time further incentivising the time locking and staking)
Deciding on which projects could be worked on for reward and how the reward is split from the main protocol is a separate issue of governance
Thoughts?