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Mine to Shielded Coinbase

As part of the Heartwood network upgrade, Zcash miners and mining pools will have the option to mine directly to a shielded coinbase. ZIP 213 defines modifications to the Zcash

Explaining FlyClient

One of the key improvements in the Heartwood upgrade is FlyClient support, ZIP 221. In this post, we’ll explain the importance of FlyClient, how this research came about and what

ECC Transparency Report for Q3 2019

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

Introducing Heartwood

Heartwood, the next major Zcash network upgrade, improves interoperability through Flyclient support and gives miners the option to immediately shield mining rewards in coinbase transactions. The community chose the name

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 a multi-year timeframe. In that presentation, we defined three time

New Releases: 2.1.1 and hotfix 2.1.1-1

New soft fork On December 31, 2019, Michael Davidson disclosed to us a vulnerability that could be used to cause consensus failure in the network: Nodes would permanently reject blocks

Dev Fund poll shows consensus

The results of the Zcash community polling are in, and Electric Coin Co. is happy to accept the role as offered to us by the Zcash community! Background Zcash was