Privacy is normal, safe and essential
What the internet did for communication and commerce, cryptocurrencies will do for money. But using cryptocurrencies without privacy is not safe.
October 21, 2020
ECC’s owners to donate ECC
A majority of the investors and owners have informed us of their generous willingness to donate ECC in support of our shared mission to empower everyone with economic freedom.
October 12, 2020
Open-source wallet apps localized into 5 additional languages
With help from community volunteers, ECC exceeded its goal and added localization in five languages to our open-sourced apps.
October 6, 2020
ECC Transparency Report for Q1 2020
Why release a transparency report? Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve and support the Zcash digital currency, and in support of
October 5, 2020
Gemini becomes first regulated institution to support shielded Zcash withdrawals
Gemini Trust Company (Gemini) announced today that account holders now have the ability to withdraw to shielded Zcash addresses. Gemini is the first regulated institution to announce shielded address support, and it added this capability after receiving approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS).
September 29, 2020
ECC welcomes the Major Grants Review Committee
Last Friday, the Zcash community elected five members out of nineteen candidates to the inaugural Major Grants Review Committee. The Zcash Foundation managed the election and 97.8% of the Zcash Community Advisory Panel participated in the vote.
September 25, 2020
Refining and recommitting to the ECC mission
Our mission is to empower people with economic freedom. To that end, we build and support Zcash to provide everyone with access to a fair and open currency — one
September 24, 2020
FATF’s plans to regulate peer-to-peer transactions
ECC believes that well-informed and -educated policy-makers and regulators produce better regulation. To that end, we engage with policy-makers and regulators both directly (through outreach and meetings; by providing commentary
September 17, 2020
Canopy security assessment complete
Electric Coin Co. once again engaged the cryptography group at NCC, this time to review our upcoming Canopy (NU4) network upgrade design and implementation. We are happy and impressed with
September 4, 2020
Introducing BOSL, a radically new type of open-source license
Note: This post has been updated to reflect renaming of the Transitive Grace Period Public License (TGPPL) to the Bootstrap Open Source License (BOSL). Electric Coin Co. is spearheading a
September 3, 2020
New Release: 4.0.0
Network Upgrade 4: Canopy The 4.0.0 release supports the Canopy activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height of 1046400 (mid-November), following the targeted EOS halt of our
September 2, 2020
Explaining Halo 2
Last year, our team announced a collection of discoveries and research milestones as part of our Scalability 2021 mission for Zcash. Our primary result was Halo, a new zk-SNARK that
September 1, 2020
