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By Elena Giralt Here are the latest updates from ECC: The Community has decided to continue funding the project!The dev fund polling was completed earlier this week and community sentiment is clear. A new “Major Grants” pool has been created...

By Elena Giralt Here are the latest updates from ECC: The Community Advisory Helios poll closes on Monday, January 27th. Results will be announced on Tuesday, January 28th. You can see the protocol hangout recording here. Earlier this week, the Blockchain...

By Elena Giralt Grab a cup of tea and settle in. Here are the latest updates from ECC: General updates DevFund Discussion continues: ZIP 1014 PollingThe Community Advisory Helios poll closes on Monday, January 27th and announce results on Tuesday, January...

By Elena Giralt 2020 is off to a strong start. Here are the latest updates from ECC: Real World Crypto conference is underway in NYC where BLAKE3 was presented. The BLAKE3 project, sponsored by ECC and Teserakt, is “an evolution of the...

By Elena Giralt Happy Holidays zcashers! I’m moving the this week in privacy section to the bottom of the post. Please note, there will not be weekly updates for the next two weeks on account of the holidays. Our engineering team is...

By Elena Giralt It’s freaky Friday y’all. December 13th means we have less than 3 weeks left in 2019. I’m writing from LaBitConf in Uruguay. It’s been an interesting few days meeting with and learning more about the crypto communities in Latin...

By Elena Giralt Hi everyone! Here’s your update for 12/6 (with updated links, including Fellowship of the ZEC). This week in privacy, Brave Browser crosses a big milestone in terms of growth, 10 million monthly users. Remember when Apple released all those...

By Elena Giralt This week in privacy, Amnesty International released a 60 page report on surveillance, privacy and human rights. Today, Brittany Kaiser, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower gave testimony to New York state lawmakers on protecting consumer privacy. Uber is piloting features that allow drivers and...

By Elena Giralt This week in privacy related news, the Electronic Frontier Foundation won a court case against the US Department of Homeland Security regarding suspicionless searches of electronic devices at the US border. This is a big win for privacy advocates everywhere!...