Hi

Would you be so kind, to update your section About Horizen (ZEN) ?
It says "Horizen (ZEN) is a cryptocurrency or a form of digital asset."

It should be something like this:

"Horizen (formerly ZenCash) is an incentive-driven application platform with optional zk-SNARK based privacy features that aims to provide everyone with complete control of their digital footprint. Launched in May 2017 (no ICO and no pre-mine), the platform is said to enable real-life use cases beyond the ZEN currency, including the ability to privately chat with others, publish information and go anywhere on the web with complete privacy."

https://www.horizen.global/what-is-horizen/

Thanks!

MedaR

This would be cool, I can help you with this.
We had an inactive Russian thread in the past..

Please cover all the news from the Team in this new topic on Russian. Of course, this is voluntary, right?

- "Sidechain will increase the demand for our native cryptocurrency – ZEN, because ZEN is required for transfers between the sidechain and the mainchain."

- Greater demand for nodes could come directly from Horizen Lab's efforts to bring hundreds or thousands of new sidechains. So far node owners were incentivized with 10% of each block. Now Horizen’s Super Node operators will benefit from those new integrations. More benefits, more nodes.

- With more nodes, less ZEN will be available on the market, more nodes, stronger network, stronger network more space for various applications built upon this platform and we completed the circle.
 
- Horizen Labs will continuously seek new partnerships and new integrations.

- Finally, those nodes will have real-life usage and will directly influence the shaping of the project in the future.

** From my perspective this will definitely increase the value and usage of ZEN. This is my opinion and certainly is not an investors advice!

Excellent, but we need to work on this one, could help you with links and tables, if you are interested.

DCG founder and CEO Barry Silbert said Horizen provides “a seamless way for businesses to incorporate customized digital ledger technology into their operations, removing a significant barrier to blockchain adoption and advancing the industry as a whole.”

https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-technology-startup-horizen-doubles-target-to-raise-4-million

Horizen Partners With Horizen Labs To Bring Mainstream Business Adoption

Business adoption of Horizen’s public blockchain drives value for all stakeholders in our ecosystem. We are proud to announce that Horizen Labs, an independent blockchain technology company, is investing millions of dollars into sidechain deployment tools that enable developers and businesses to launch product and service-specific sidechain deployment tools on top of Horizen’s robust public infrastructure.

https://blog.zencash.com/horizen-partners-with-horizen-labs-to-bring-business-adoption/

Join Horizen's Director of R&D Alberto Garoffolo and Maurizio Binello of the Horizen engineering team at the ZK Proof Workshop in Berkeley California April 10-12. This open initiative of industry and academia aims to standardize the use of zero-knowledge proofs through workshops to standardize the security, implementation, applications and all other related aspects of this technology.

Learn more here:
https://zkproof.org/workshop2/main.html#first_workshop

The 2.0.17 release is now available.

This is a mandatory update for all exchanges, mining pools, node operators, and full node wallet users.

This update adds a new blockmaxcomplexity parameter and more. Learn more about the release in our blog:

https://blog.zencash.com/mandatory-software-upgrade-zen-2-0-17/

Thank you for your kind words! 


I think that someone tested it in the past and did not perform well

https://www.hbg.com/en-us/exchange/?s=zen_btc  Huobi global work, they probably started  preparations for 2.0.17 upgrade.

Thanks!
Here is not such rush as it is on Discord, this why I prefer forum posts, instead of filtering discord for informations.
Whatever you need I'm here.

No, secure nodes criterias are strict. But you could add more nodes.
42 ZEN are requirements for Secure Node.
500 ZEN are requirements of Super Node.

In case if you have more than 42 ZEN, they just wont be counted, so if you have 100 ZEN you can setup 2 Secure nodes, or you can collect some more an setup 3 nodes.

Here is an example>
This information is from Tracking & Payment System Estimated Earnings (Zen/Node/Day) --> 0.0399
https://securenodes.eu.zensystem.io/

 Under current conditions this is 30 x 0.0399=1.197 ZEN ~ 8.8$

Check this link:
https://horizenofficial.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ZEN/pages/136872090/Community+Hosting+and+Setup+List

You can find more about setup prices and various offers. I guess you can find this complete service for 3$

"Our infrastructure, technology, and products are all pointing towards endowing individuals with ownership of their digital footprints, to essentially reverse the 20-30 year business model that’s evolved out of Silicon Valley."

Read Horizen Co-founder Rob Viglione's featured article in the latest Blockchain Brief Newsletter here https://rebrand.ly/BB_April

The whole team is here
https://www.horizen.global/team/

The main office is in Milan but this is more like developers HQ. The team is from all over the World.

We have country representatives and they are responsible for many events.



But we also have a lot of friends and evangelist who wants to spread the word of ZEN.  



If you are interested you can join too!