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ZIP: 1008
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Title: Fund ECC for Two More Years
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Owners: @kek (zcash forums)
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@mistfpga (zcash forums) <steve@mistfpga.net>
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Status: Obsolete
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Category: Consensus
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Created: 2019-09-02
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License: CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>
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Discussions-To: <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/kek-s-proposal-fund-ecc-for-2-more-years/34778>
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Terminology
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The key words "MUST" and "MUST NOT" in this document are to be interpreted as
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described in RFC 2119. [#RFC2119]_
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For clarity this ZIP defines these terms:
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* Spirit is defined as what is the intended outcome of the ZIP. [#spirit]_
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.. [#spirit] If there is contradiction between Spirit and any other part of
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the proposal that needs to be addressed, in the event it is not addressed
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Spirit is assumed to overrule all.
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Out of Scope for this Proposal
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==============================
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Everything except moving the development fund end date.
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Abstract
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========
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The spirit of this proposal is to keep to the current structure of the
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Electric Coin Company (ECC) receiving funding from the block distribution for
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two years' worth of blocks after the first halving in October 2020.
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Motivation
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To give more time to work out the full ramifications of any potential pivot /
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slow down, yet keep "all in on ZEC" for two more years with as little
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disruption as possible.
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Requirements
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.. role:: editor-note
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Nothing about distribution recipients changes.
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:editor-note:`The current distribution of the Founders’ Reward is dependent
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on arrangements between the participants that will, if not explicitly renewed,
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expire at the first halving. There are currently direct and indirect recipients
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other than the ECC and Zcash Foundation. It is unclear whether funding of the
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ECC and Foundation is intended to continue at the current absolute ZEC rate,
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or at the same rate relative to the block subsidy which halves in October 2020.
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Further specification would be needed in order to fulfil and clarify the spirit
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of the proposal.`
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Specification
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* The ECC's portion of block subsidy MUST be 20%, until a block height
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corresponding to two years after the first halving, i.e. until October 2022.
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* A to-be-specified fraction of ECC's portion SHOULD be used to fund the
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Zcash Foundation.
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:editor-note:`A previous version of this ZIP stated the following requirements:
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"The ECC's portion of block subsidy MUST be capped at their projected 1.1m USD
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costs a month." and "The ECC's portion of block subsidy MUST NOT be greater than
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10% of total block subsidy of any one block." These requirements were mistakenly
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introduced in the process of ZIP editing; they do not reflect the intent of the
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original author @kek. They are also inconsistent with the summary that was posted
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in the Community Sentiment Collection Poll blog post at
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<https://www.zfnd.org/blog/community-sentiment-collection-poll/>, which stated an
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ECC percentage of 20%. Votes on the Community Sentiment Collection Poll, the
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Community Advisory Panel Helios poll, and/or the stake-weighted petition reported
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at <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/staked-poll-on-zcash-dev-fund-debate/34846/71>,
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should be interpreted with care in light of this ambiguity. Also note that the
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1.1m USD cap could not in any case be specified as a consensus rule since there
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is no on-chain oracle for the USD price.`
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Rationale
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Provisions that referred to specific block heights have been revised since they
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were inconsistent with the change in block target spacing [#zip-0208]_ that will
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occur with the Blossom Network Upgrade [#zip-0206]_; and even if recalculated,
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fixed block heights would potentially be inconsistent with future changes in
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target block spacing.
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Raised objections and issues so far
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* This is just kicking the can down the road.
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* The Zcash Foundation has raised objections to a single point of failure in the
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ECC.
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Implications to other users
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===========================
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* The knock-on impact of this ZIP to exchanges and wallet developers may be
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nontrivial.
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* The economics of doing this have not been calculated.
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References
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==========
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2020-02-29 07:51:03 -08:00
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.. [#RFC2119] `Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119.html>`_
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.. [#zip-0206] `ZIP 206: Deployment of the Blossom Network Upgrade <zip-0206.rst>`_
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.. [#zip-0208] `ZIP 208: Shorter Block Target Spacing <zip-0208.rst>`_
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