Tim pengembang inti Zcash ECC mengumumkan pengunduran diri dan akan mendirikan perusahaan baru untuk mengembangkan protokol mata uang privasi secara independen

【Block Rhythm】Zcash privacy coin ecosystem stirred up waves internally. On January 8th, Josh Swihart, CEO of ECC (Electric Coin Company), publicly announced that the ECC team has collectively resigned from the original organizational structure and plans to establish an independent new company to continue development. What is the reason behind this? Bootstrap, the non-profit organization responsible for governing ECC and supporting Zcash, has “evidently and consistently diverged” from Zcash’s core mission.

The point of contention is very clear. In recent weeks, the majority of Bootstrap’s board members—including Zaki Manian, Christina Garman, Alan Fairless, and Michelle Lai of ZCAM—have experienced serious misalignment in decision-making with Zcash’s original intentions. Josh frankly stated that the ECC team faced a so-called “constructive dismissal” situation: that is, without directly firing employees, unilaterally modifying employment terms and working conditions, making it impossible for the team to continue working while maintaining professional integrity and technical completeness.

Under these circumstances, all ECC members made the decision to resign. However, it needs to be clarified here that this is not a technical fork or protocol-level conflict. The Zcash protocol itself remains completely unaffected. The core purpose of ECC’s new initiative is to protect the fruits of years of work and prevent them from being eroded by malicious governance.

Josh stated that ECC will establish a new company with the original team and the same mission to continue building an “unstoppable privacy currency”. Simply put, the technical development of privacy coins continues, only the organizational form has changed.