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50,000 $ZEC . That’s what some members of the Zcash community are proposing to withdraw from the fund that pays its own developers. Voting opens Monday.

The facts first. Zcash Community Grants (ZCG), the committee that funds developers, wallets, and projects, holds around 91,453 ZEC. The draft proposal, co-signed by co-founders Zooko Wilcox and Sean Bowe, asks to withdraw 50,000. That’s 55% of the fund, worth around $49 million at this week’s price.

Where would it go? Not in the trash. It would go into the NSM, a protocol reserve that gradually returns it to miners through future block rewards. It leaves circulation immediately and comes back drop by drop.

The second part goes unnoticed: the 8% of each block reward that ZCG receives would be deposited into a vault, the “Future Dev and Legal Defense Fund.” No one could touch it until another proposal sets the withdrawal rules.

What the headline doesn’t say:
1. The vote (November 16–30) is advisory. No numerical threshold has been announced; the organizers will decide whether there is “rough consensus.”
2. Nothing will change without a network upgrade, NU7.1, which doesn’t have a date yet.
3. 50,000 ZEC is around 0.3% of the circulating supply. The mechanical effect on price: minimal. The effect on governance: enormous.

My take? The real issue isn’t the money, but who controls it. Taking a fund away from a committee and putting it in a vault with no defined key is basically saying, “We don’t trust you anymore, and we’ll decide later who to trust with it.”

If you had ZEC, which box would you tick: leave the fund with the committee, or empty it first and rewrite the rules afterward?

#Zcash #ZEC #Gouvernance #Crypto

Should you be afraid of Elon Musk?

According to The Economist, Elon Musk has become far more than an entrepreneur: his influence now extends to artificial intelligence, satellites, space, transportation, and even geopolitical debates.

The real question may not be whether we should fear Musk himself, but what happens when a growing number of strategic infrastructures and technologies depend on the decisions of a single person.

As AI accelerates its development, the debate over governance, accountability, and the limits of technological power is more urgent than ever.
$SPCXB $TSLAB

#ElonMusk #AI #Technology #Innovation #Governance

The argument for monetary sovereignty in favor of the ECO is legitimate. Let’s be clear.

Having a monetary policy decided in Dakar rather than in Paris is a real step forward for Africa’s economic autonomy.

But history provides a harsh lesson: monetary sovereignty without institutional discipline can lead to disaster.

Zimbabwe had full sovereignty. It experienced inflation of 231 million percent.
Argentina too. It suffered massive, repeated devaluations.

Sovereignty is a legitimate right. Responsible exercise is the condition for its value.

#MonetarySovereignty
#eco
#MonetaryHistory
#Gouvernance