Should Zcash switch from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake?
ZEC is the engine driving the sustainable growth necessary to provide economic and social freedom for everyone.
August 3, 2021
Electric Coin Company Q3 2019 Transparency Report
Why release a transparency report? Electric Coin Company (ECC) is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve and support the Zcash digital currency, and in support of
August 29, 2019
Electric Coin Company Q2 2019 Transparency Report
The Electric Coin Company is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve and support the Zcash digital currency, and in support of our mission to empower everyone
May 14, 2019
Zcash Company Statement on ASICs
We hear the distress and confusion from members of the community, especially those who have been mining Zcash with GPUs, about the introduction of ASIC mining equipment. Recently the Zcash
May 18, 2018
State of the Network: 1,000,000 ZEC Edition
The Zcash blockchain has completed the distribution of the first 1,000,000 Zcash coins. Only 20,000,000 more to go! Now’s a good time for your irregularly scheduled “State of the Network”
April 2, 2017
Announcing the Winners of the Open Source Miner Challenge!
A few months ago, we launched the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge and today we are announcing the winners: CPU Winner, $10,000 prize: xenoncat with https://github.com/xenoncat/equihash-xenon GPU Winner, $10,000 prize:
December 3, 2016
The Zcash Equihash Analysis
As we announced back in August, we commissioned two security audits of the Zcash codebase and an analysis of our proof-of-work algorithm. We published the two security audits shortly before
November 18, 2016
Founders’ Reward Transfers
With the Zcash launch of October 28th, 2016, a couple weeks behind us, and a couple of bugfix releases out, we’re beginning to turn our focus to the coming year.
November 15, 2016
State of the Network
The launch of Zcash 1.0 “Sprout” worked! The blockchain is live. Mining and transactions are working. This is a brief round-up of news from the network. I found this explorer
October 31, 2016
2 Days to Enter the Miner Challenge
The Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge deadline is just two days away! All submissions that want to be considered for the Challenge prizes need to be entered and finalized by
October 24, 2016
New Release Candidate: Less than One Week to Launch
The Zcash team has been hard at work preparing for the launch, which is on track for the 28th October. Despite some hiccups due to the widespread DNS disruptions on
October 22, 2016
Open Source Miner Submissions Are Live
The Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge launched on September 27 to enable a wider community to mine for Zcash coins and take collective ownership of the network as a public
October 17, 2016
