The inherent time-cost to zero knowledge proofs have been well documented for years. The fact is that, while the system is very nicely designed and written (and assuming the cryptography withstands attack vectors), practically speaking there is not a realistic long term usability.

Also, developers deserve to be PAID for their WORK. There is absolutely no problem with the Founders Fee. People in this community expect devs to create code for free so you can profit. Being paid a wage for labor performed and the philosophy of open source are not in conflict with each other.

I'm very familiar with the trade-offs involved in using resource intensive encryption schemes and I have been following this implementation of a ZKP cryptographic token for a while. It will take a lot of work to fix the inherent limitations to user experience.

More likely, the resource intensive nature of the code may possibly limit adoption outside of the open source and developer community. ZKP anonymized functionality, which is the project's defining feature and it's only real broadstrokes argument for it's consumer use case remains, unfortunately, impracticable for daily usage. This is especially true given the team's decision to remove the Qt implementation and implicitly restrict users to Unix systems. I'm quite sure the Qt matter could be resolved by changing their minimum BDB dependency (but this ma,y cause other errors), but the failure to generate proper releases including OSX and Win builds, leaves me with the sense that they are either Unix elitists (lol which I made up) or, more likely, they had nearly depleted their resources and had to launch ad hoc. I get it. And I might have some solutions in the future. Perhaps. 

Overall though, there have been some unmistakable gains made to the community by the zcash team in terms of code quality and innovative genesis and build strategies/implementations among other things. Props.

Also, how the fuck is there zcash classic now? I think polo makes these fucking trader chains for their own benefit. Or perhaps polo or other exchanges are not the originators of bastard chains like (zcash classic or Ethereum classic), but they might as well be, right?