2022 Primer Defund Zcash Foundation thread. by @joris
2019-2020 Funding discussion by @sonya
And Sentiment normalization/ ongoing banter about the Dev Fund debate leading into 2020 Halving
ZIP-1003 Funding/ mining/ economics thread by @aristarchus
An Opt-in Dev Fund proposal and critique of ZF and ECC over-spending by @boxalex
Reflections on the community and waves of conflict that come and go by @Zooko
Direct critique/ questions about ECC spending and effectiveness 2019 by @sarang
Upon searching a few common hot words, I’ve found that the community has had many thread initiatives to defund the ZF and the ECC, or to ask for increased transparency and accountability. But nothing ever sticks, there are many accounts here in the forum that are effective in sheep-dogging consensus and talking down to/ obfuscating/ talking beside voices calling for significant reform - I wonder how many of those are within the ranks at ZF, ZCAP, or ECC. I have seen many forum participants come and go with strong ideas to reform the ecosystem and make it more equitable, democratic, and productive; its like there is a ubiquituous force that drives out dissent against the prevailing ECC and ZF narratives for what Zcash is and how its development and funding should be directed.
Leaves me to ponder, is this community forum really a place for open thoughts and challenges to the status quo? or is this a Cowboy’s town from a spaghetti western movie? (where the facade of a non-hierarchical, self-organizing community is stood up… but the real business decisions are already driven on their own path by the wealthy power brokers)
These unanswered concerns that both ECC and ZF paid staff are actively voting in all community polls and actively driving discussions are quite pertinent today; especially to the context about ZF (and ECC) remaining on the Dev Fund despite their less than satisfactory results from the past 4 years of heavy resource spending of the ZEC block rewards.