Just read the zcash AMA and I came away a bit unconvinced. Some CN related comments in the second page
https://forum.bitcoin.com/post16238.html#p16238It looks like they are very much set with the 10% "Founder's fee" and being pretty much a Bitcoin code base with zero knowledge for enhanced privacy and fungibility. Because of their non threatening stance and some associated names, they will surely be pushed and positioned over Monero with more whales supporting it financially as well as via marketing and networking.
XMR has so much going for it in every way, just not the cash flow it truly deserves.
If you read the blogpost, you will notice that it's 10% of the whole supply, but actually 20% of the blockreward in the first 4 years.
During the first four years, every ten minutes 40 newly created ZEC will go to the miners, and 10 ZEC to the founders.
https://z.cash/blog/funding.htmlIf it's open source insta-clone it immediately without a "founders fee" and we're all set.