Do you have any insight into crypto ecosystem or just troll here? First of all, zcash is focused on private payments and Tor helps its users to stay anonymous while using third party wallets, etc. It's their dependency and relevant privacy project so they decide to support it. But this is nothing new, crypto ecosystem has been contributing to Tor for a decade, starting in Silk Road era. Many privacy related project have anon contributors only funded in crypto. It's literally FOSS native payment method.

These days, public goods funding of free and open software is one of the most active areas in crypto scene. They activate individual donors and organizations/DAOs to donate towards impactful non-profit projects. Quadratic funding platforms like Gitcoin are used to funnel millions of dollars to FOSS.

As much as I dislike cryptocurrency, you're being unfair here. Some people of that crowd have privacy as central principle, Tor is then more than clearly related.

It’s almost as bad as the number of HN commenters posting negatively about crypto without bothering to check if the criticism is accurate.

https://zcash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rtd_pages/tor.html

Most cryptobros are very pro open source and pro privacy, it's the whole reason they're trying to amass resources in crypto, to make it stronger and also to direct others to build up more resilient systems.