Zcash dev holds Zcashco hostage by threatening to fork leading up to the overwinter release because they didnt pay him/her enough to maintain the the zcash wallet.
He/She mentions in the article that his/her builds were used by most if not all zcash implementations including komodo, they go on to mention that Komodo paid them more than any other altcoin for the work done.
The developer must be independent, not exclusive to any coin...think it says something about Komodo core team reimbursing more to valuable developer work. But I am curious komodo's opinion on this article and forum post.
Original forum post threatening the fork if not paid more:
https://forum.z.cash/t/winzec-zcash4win-mac-overwinter-and-sapling-an-uncertain-future/29769
Coindesk article talking about it:
https://www.coindesk.com/zcash-pays-off-angry-developer-avoid-blockchain-split/
the articles are quite skewed. zcashco takes 20% of all the mined coins but the dev that created the windows versions wasnt paid in quite a long time. A whopping 80 ZEC was raised after the issue was raised.He/She mentions in the article that his/her builds were used by most if not all zcash implementations including komodo, they go on to mention that Komodo paid them more than any other altcoin for the work done.
The developer must be independent, not exclusive to any coin...think it says something about Komodo core team reimbursing more to valuable developer work. But I am curious komodo's opinion on this article and forum post.
Original forum post threatening the fork if not paid more:
https://forum.z.cash/t/winzec-zcash4win-mac-overwinter-and-sapling-an-uncertain-future/29769
Coindesk article talking about it:
https://www.coindesk.com/zcash-pays-off-angry-developer-avoid-blockchain-split/
Now compare 20% of all coins mined so far, vs. 80 paid to the dev who made it work on windows. It seems windows compatibility isnt that important for ZEC.
On the scale of things, what is more important than the windows wallet? 80 ZEC?
