But I think that was what happened, I think some people who had interest and involvement in ZCL thought, rightly in my view, that without a funding model this is going nowhere. I'd say the Zen people probably wanted what they saw as a 'fairer' funding model than Zcash. The result is less goes to the developers, and they introduced the concept of funded secure nodes. These nodes aren't just for fun, because they're going to have encryption, including certificated encryption, right through - so all comms will be encrypted.

Zcash team is well regarded, which is why I said so in my post. Though with the high inflation over the next three and a half years or so for both coins until block reward halving, I'd be slightly scared to invest in a $400 ZCash with $620 mill market cap. Sure, it was buyable for $30 a few months ago before the altcoin boom, and I'm not predicting it's downfall. It just makes me nervous, $400 is a lot of downside risk.