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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-knowledge proofs."

Zooko Wilcox (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Zooko Wilcox (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)