some people are mad about the $ZEC dev fund funding projects like this one (quoted post). these people call themselves privacy + freedom advocates, but they are now only proving themselves as privacy/freedom larpers. dev fund exists to fund community initiatives that would hardly receive funding from traditional methods (like in seed/private investment rounds). the dev fund exists to fund development and foment zcash adoption as freedom + privacy-enabling money among different communities and geolocations. especially for those who need it the most. zcash is money for everyone. even for the people you (for some reason) hate. if funding adoption awareness among a group of people who really needs privacy/freedom money is the death for zcash, then zcash deserves this death. it isn't, though. it's the very reason why zcash exists in the first place. many zcash supporters (especially the ogs) understand that. those who believe zcash is privacy/freedom money are not only not bothered about this, but understand the importance of funding and promoting zec for groups that are more exposed to social/political persecution. and they are excited about more people getting to now and use zec. most people opposing it are tourists, speculators, and extractors. they want zec to go up in price, but they do not support the mission of building freedom/privacy money for everyone. big difference. the thing they ignore is that zec's ability to sustainably go up in price depends on its adoption. and it means that some people they don't like will end up using the coin. if supporting "highly polarizing groups" (as i saw some people describing this initiative) is wrong, there is no reason for zcash to exist. it's meant exactly for highly-polarizing and maginalized groups. onward.