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" The beginnings of Smartcash are interesting in that they technically forked from Zerocoin to build on their privacy features while also realizing the value and benefits that the masternode model of Dash provides. " Then you need to fix ur sentence here because it makes no sense. Thanks.

I know that zcoin wasn't thrilled with this fork and so I understand why you want to be sure to point this out. But was it not your privacy features that they valued to initially want to fork from zcoin? If this isn't the case I'm interested to hear your take on this situation.
Regardless however, whether or not they followed through on the privacy aspect is not relevent for this post. As I stated earlier, I was focusing on explaining their governance model as it is today, not their privacy protocols.