I forget which but a bit of code in either the original bitcoin wallet, or one of the early litecoin ports of it, had the "tax" and so it was adopted as an idea into the new wallet software which was being developed for potcoin (and orgcoin and others). We thought it was odd when we first saw it too, that a tax was hardcoded right into the program and it was NOT commented out. We wondered about all the numbnuts who had just blindly compiled it without looking. Let me reiterate this original open source code that the wallet was built upon had nothing to do with potcoin.
The "tax" was de-activated and was, as I said, left there for other purposes; namely to allow a licensing fee to be generated if that should become a necessary or desired feature. And again, I am limiting this statement to the original code not the winblows derivative works.
The "foundation" is a non-profit Colorado corporation who would become the beneficiary of the licensing fee in the event the tax was turned on. This really had more to do with Orgcoin than potcoin.
Viceroy, are you part of the dev team? I'm just wondering why the only reasonable explanation for the origin of the code is coming from you rather than the dev team. If you are, thanks for clarifying at least some of this mystery.
However, to a skeptic like myself, adding bits of code like this during major code changes is like hiding laws in bills in the senate. Everyone is so preoccupied with the major changes of digishield and halving that they didn't notice the precursor to a network wide tax.
Another point that kind of rubs me the wrong way though is your comment about the third party windows compilation. Who compiles the windows client? Is the dev team not capable of compiling a windows client internally?
-Fuse