It's interesting that the funding for this came from the Zcash Community Grants. There's a lot of money involved with cryptocurrency and a lot of it gets invested into the software involved. It's interesting that in this case, serious money got invested into some software that isn't strictly cryptocurrency-related and is useful outside of cryptocurrency. It makes me wonder if there are other software projects that are generally useful, including but not exclusively to cryptocurrency projects, that could benefit similarly from seeking funding from cryptocurrency projects. Even if one disliked cryptocurrency, this could be seen as getting money redistributed to more useful endeavors to benefit everyone.