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Zcash dev fund faces surplus as ZEC price surges

Zcash community debates how to handle its growing grants treasury after ZEC rose ~48x, inflating the 8% block reward allocation to about $125M. Cofounder Sean Bowe proposed cutting the dev fund share, joining three other competing proposals. The fund, paying out in ZEC, now covers decades of spending at current rates, prompting calls for reform.

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