Since it was founded, Zcash has been running on zcashd, a code fork of bitcoind. When it was created in 2009, bitcoind was the polestar of the crypto constellation. In fact, it was pretty much the only star. Unsurprisingly, in the 2010s, many teams that were developing new cryptocurrencies used it as their starting point, including the Electric Coin Co., which launched Zcash.
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