Zooko Wilcox

Zooko Wilcox (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Zcash Developer Electric Coin CEO Zooko Wilcox Steps Down, Swihart Named to Role
The overseeing board of Zcash, known for its privacy-oriented "shielded" addresses or "z-addresses," credited Wilcox with delivery of "the first real-world application of zero...
Zooko Wilcox (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Zooko Wilcox on Edward Snowden’s Involvement With Zcash
Zooko Wilcox on Edward Snowden’s Involvement With Zcash
Electric Coin Company founder and CEO Zooko Wilcox discusses Edward Snowden's involvement with Zcash in its early development stage. "He did that for free, voluntarily, like i...
Zooko Wilcox on Edward Snowden’s Involvement With Zcash

Zooko Wilcox on Digital Privacy, Future of Zcash
Zooko Wilcox on Digital Privacy, Future of Zcash
The Electric Coin Company has been breaking new ground with zero-knowledge proofs for years and radically improved privacy on its Zcash protocol. Electric Coin Company founder...
Zooko Wilcox on Digital Privacy, Future of Zcash

Zooko Wilcox (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Zcash Doesn’t Need Your Trust
For years, the Electric Coin Company has been breaking new ground with zero-knowledge proofs. This year it radically improved privacy on its Zcash protocol, even as the right...
Zooko Wilcox (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Crypto OG Zooko on State of Digital and Financial Privacy in Crypto as Industry Evolves
Crypto OG Zooko on State of Digital and Financial Privacy in Crypto as Industry Evolves
Early cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox, CEO of Electronic Coin Company (ECC), the creator of privacy-focused, blockchain-based payments network Zcash, discusses the current state of pr...
Crypto OG Zooko on State of Digital and Financial Privacy in Crypto as Industry Evolves

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$600M Poly Heist Shows DeFi Needs Hackers to Become Unhackable
If computers will continue to do more important things, we'll require those programs to be secure. Learning what not to do is one way there.
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Zcash co-founder Zooko Wilcox (right) speaks at ETHDenver 2019.
Zcash's Electric Coin Company Shifts to Non-Profit Status Following Stockholder Vote
Zcash developer Electric Coin Company will transition to a new non-profit, with a majority of shareholders electing to donate their equity.
Zcash co-founder Zooko Wilcox (right) speaks at ETHDenver 2019.

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The Web Wasn’t Built for Privacy, but It Could Be
Because privacy means different things to different people, a privacy-focused internet is unlikely to please everyone. But it should offer greater personal control.
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'The Internet Was Illegal' and Other Early Stories With Zooko Wilcox
In this wide-ranging conversation, CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen and early cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox discuss what crypto can learn from technology successes and failures in the '...
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