Moving the Dev Fund discussion forward

From a logistical perspective, I will note that it might be better to put this value into a specific “unissued reserve” (potentially something similar to what I describe in https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/block-rewards-in-the-case-that-the-dev-fund-is-allowed-to-expire) instead of sending separate outputs for each block to an address. Since Zcash operates using a UTXO model, you end up with a huge number of UTXOs to manage; this has actually been something of a hassle for current dev fund recipients because it often takes quite a long time to generate the signatures and/or proofs when you have to aggregate the 30k outputs that accrue from the block rewards within a given month. An in-protocol reserve might be simpler for the signatories to deal with.

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