The community (and the Electric Coin Company) are in the early stages of considering a protocol layer reconfiguration to the supply emission solution (originally a copy, paste of what Bitcoin used back in 2009)
In the context of a shift to Proof of Stake, there is debate around how to better distribute the long term capped supply of ZEC. At the current pace more than 90% of all coins will be arbitrarily distributed through Proof of Work miners and via the 3 primary ecosystem orgs (and debatably some coins may still be getting distributed out of the now discontinued Founder’s Rewards).
A move to Proof of Stake in the future intends to better align the protocol intrinsic incentive to assure robust and reliable security by rewarding ZEC validator-stakers, but how is that sustainable in the long term if so few ZEC are available to be distributed as rewards?
I assert that too many coins are being rapidly distributed too early in this project’s lifecycle and under an incentive structure that will be obsolete in the future. To save Zcash from consuming itself and plundering best odds at success, the ecosystem is on the brink of having a hard and serious debate about making the supply emission update