On The Brink with Castle Island

Josh Cincinnati, former Executive Director of the Zcash Foundation, joins the show to talk about his tenure at that organization, and lessons he's taken from the experience. In this episode:  The genesis of the Zcash Foundation Prior foundation mistakes that Josh sought to avoid The difference between governing a non-cryptocurrency FOSS project and an open source protocol with an explicit monetary element Why Josh chose to step down from the Zcash Foundation How the monetary distribution of Zcash was initially devised and how the founder's reward became a developer fund The dynamics around the trademark sharing in Zcash Trademarks as a last resort tool of power in blockchain governance How public blockchains are 'Marxist in their goals, Leninist in their implementations' How the mandate of the Zcash Foundation was broader than simply the Zcash ecosystem The current outlook for funding Zcash development The subtle change in the social contract underlying development funding Why poorly formalized social contra