Similar to the way Bitcoin operates, “miners” are responsible for securing the network. With each block of transactions that they successfully “mine,” the winning miner receives a reward in zcash, and 20% of those rewards traditionally goes to the founders. At first, Zcash split that “founders’ reward” so that 15% went to the founders and 5% to the Electric Coin Co., which founded Zcash and continues to fuel development of the cryptographic project.
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