Our vision involves making blockchain services available to the masses. To do that, we need to touch every corner of the globe, and keep shouting our story to whomever will listen.

In the last 24 hours, ECC has seen some significant developments in this effort. Today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve expanded our reach to another major portion of the global population.

First, the good news…

Just yesterday, Bruno Alano (a developer on the ECC team) was featured in EXAME, a Brazilian publication that sees around 35 million unique visitors a month. EXAME’s website is Brazil’s most respected source of breaking news in business, finance, and the economy. Check it out here (the article is written in Portuguese, but translates nicely using Google Translate):

And now, for the REALLY good news…

This article has gained ECC a lot of attention and traction.

Due to its popularity, and accomplished in just hours following its release: ECC is now listed on troca.ninja (a Brazilian P2P exchange) with a fiat pairing.

This sets a precedent for our community. For the first time, someone can exchange their usual and everyday cash for ECC (and vice versa). Any one of the roughly 211 million citizens of Brazil now has direct access to ECC.

Our hope is that this is the just the beginning.

So keep spreading the good word. We know we have a good story to tell — now just go find someone who will listen.