1. They Trademaked Zcash

Zerocoin Electric Coin Company LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY DELAWARE filed for a Trademark on “Zcash” Oct 5, 2016.

2. They Closed Their Subreddit

The majority of discussion on Zcash must now happen on https://forum.z.cash/ or a Slack channel which the Zcash Electric Coin Company controls.

3. Zcash Corporation Salaries & Equities are Private

There are actually many different asset types to consider here. There is the Zcash crypto coin, equity in Zcash corporation, and Zcash salary paid in dollars. Zcash corporation does not believe the public needs to know their salaries and equities.

4. They Are Taking A 20% Fee

This is perhaps one of the most controversial features of this coin, other than their Trusted Setup. I wrote more about this earlier.

5. Embrace, Extend and Extinguish

Ethereum network hashrate, which provides security for the Ethereum network has crashed since the launch of Zcash.

Ethereum founder, and paid advisor of the Zcash Corporation doesn’t seem to mind:

6 (bonus!). Trusted Setup is a Backdoor

What Alternatives Do We Have?

I will write more about this in future articles. Fortunately, there are many options including:

A soft-fork of Zcash to remove the founder’s reward. A hard-fork of a Zcash that removes the founder’s reward and has no ties to Zcash Corporation. A hard-fork of Zcash that is also a Bitcoin-pegged sidechain

For now, please follow more discussion of this at https://www.reddit.com/r/NotZcash/

Update

Z-Classic launching soon at https://github.com/z-classic/zclassic