Mine to Shielded Coinbase
As part of the Heartwood network upgrade, Zcash miners and mining pools will have the option to mine directly to […]
Explaining FlyClient
One of the key improvements in the Heartwood upgrade is FlyClient support, ZIP 221. In this post, we’ll explain the […]
ECC Engineering flight plan: Mid-horizon update
In our 2019 Q4 livestream, we mapped out our Engineering flight plan aimed at advancing the future of Zcash across […]
ECC scaling research: 2019 research & development milestones
Scaling is a central discussion for blockchain teams and a critical issue that needs to be addressed as this technology […]
ECC R&D and Engineering Flight Plan for 2020
During the latest Electric Coin Co. (ECC) quarterly livestream, we shared our R&D and engineering strategy to advance the future […]
New Release: 2.1.0-1
Electric Coin Co. became aware of the following security announcement on the bitcoin-dev mailing list this morning (8th November): https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-November/017453.html […]
New Release: 2.0.7-2
Testnet users needed to upgrade to 2.0.7 before Blossom activated. The amount of notice given to these users was brief, […]
New Release: 2.0.7
In the v2.0.7 release we have implemented ZIP208 which will take effect when Blossom activates. Upon activation, the block times for Zcash […]
New Release: 2.0.6
This release of zcashd v2.0.6 is a maintenance release, focusing on code clean-ups and minor bug fixes. It precedes v2.0.7 […]
Sprout-to-Sapling Migration Tool
The Electric Coin Company is pleased to announce the official Sprout-to-Sapling migration tool in the 2.0.5-2 release of zcashd. This […]
New Release: 2.0.5-2
Note: This release of Zcashd v2.0.5-2 is a hotfix release that all users are encouraged to upgrade to, especially users […]
The Zcash Reference Wallet Is Here!
The light client reference wallet has been built! Sapling shielded transactions now work on mobile devices and we are ready […]