# Placeholder Considerations: Resources, Governance, and Legitimacy in NU4 **URL:** https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/placeholder-considerations-resources-governance-and-legitimacy-in-nu4/34045 **Category:** protocol **Created:** [July 10, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/placeholder-considerations-resources-governance-and-legitimacy-in-nu4/34045 "2019-07-10T16:21:21Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 46
### Author: ![Shawn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/shawn/32/187_2.png) [@Shawn](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Shawn) #### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/placeholder-considerations-resources-governance-and-legitimacy-in-nu4/34045/46 "2019-07-24T00:55:40Z")
I do think a development fund should be aiming for a set period time (not indefinitely) for several reasons, such as re-evaluating if the funds are being used effectively. However, I don’t really see why the re-evaluating period (ending blockheight) should have to coincide with the block halving schedule. > [@mistfpga](#): > > How much more would it be, because if it continues indefinitely they will receive something along the lines of 32% I purposely chose a set period of 11 total years of funding in my proposal to make Zcash “good” (ie, fast, scalable, adopted, etc.) and to avoid complacency. I did some calculations, based on the suggestion of 9% for 7 more years: - Founder Reward of 10% of total supply = 2.1M ZEC - Development only plan of 9% over 7 years = 641,650 ZEC - Total ZEC allocated 13.05% - Total monetary supply unchanged I think that an additional 3.05% of the total supply of Zcash for development is a reasonable amount that the community could support. Feel free to use these numbers in a proposal if you want, I have withdrawn mine due to implementation challenges. > [@Dev Fund Proposal: Dev Focused , let the Nodes Decide](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/dev-fund-proposal-dev-focused-let-the-nodes-decide/33925): > > Up until this point I have not been taking a side on the Founders Reward debate, acting as a Mod I try to remain neutral in most conversations while spurring debate with threads like [this one](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/the-future-of-zcash-in-the-year-2020/32372). However with a topic as important as this I realize that expressing no opinion is basically the same as a vote to let the code remain as-is: letting the founders reward expire. [:exclamation: UPDATE: I have decided not to submit this as a full ZIP proposal due to the likely hood it could be gamed based on… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/placeholder-considerations-resources-governance-and-legitimacy-in-nu4/34045)._