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Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox steps down from Electric Coin, naming new CEO

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Zooko Wilcox is stepping down as the CEO of Electric Coin Company, the team behind privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC).

ECC announced a change in leadership on Monday, with Josh Swihart promoted to replace Wilcox.

Picture of Wilcox speaking about the history of privacy on the internet. Source: ECC

Swihart previously worked at ECC as one of the firm’s vice presidents of growth from October 2018 to August 2023 but took four months off working as a part-time investor at investment services firm Denver Angels in Colorado, according to LinkedIn.

“We feel confident in Josh’s leadership — in finding product-market fit, unlocking new partnerships and collaboration, improving Zcash usability and increasing adoption,” ECC said in a Dec. 18 post.

“In addition to a vision for ECC and an optimistic passion for Zcash, Josh has a strong entrepreneurial, technical and product background,” the firm added.

Swihart said the firm will focus on increasing Zcash’s utility through user-focused products over the next few months and to better position ECC financially.

Wilcox — a self-described “human freedom maximalist” — reflected positively on his time building Zcash from the ground up in a Dec. 18 Medium post:

“It has been an incredible experience, and I’ll always be grateful that I had the opportunity to live out one of my science fiction dreams in reality.”

However, Wilcox said it was best for him and the company to part ways. “I don’t think this conflation of Zcash with me personally is healthy for me, and I don’t think it’s healthy for Zcash,” he said.

“Zcash’s role in human history is, and will be, much bigger than any individual,” Wilcox added.

The Zcash co-founder conceded that he had clashed with Swihart on how to best take Zcash forward, but said the two never disagreed on “why.”

Related: Binance was wrong to boot Monero, Zcash and other privacy coins

Wilcox will remain in his role as a director on the board of the Bootstrap Project, the parent company of ECC. Alan Fairless, Christina Garman, Michelle Lai and Zaki Manian are also on that board.

Zcash is a privacy-focused blockchain and cryptocurrency that was launched on Oct. 29, 2016. ECC was founded two years earlier in 2014.

ZCash is based on Bitcoin's codebase and, like Bitcoin (BTC), has a fixed supply of 21 million coins.

The news had no material impact on ZEC’s price, which is currently at $28.8, according to CoinGecko.

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