[ANN][ZEN] Horizen: Unbounded By Design

[Bitcoin Miners]

Interview with Horizen’s Rowan Stone

https://www.coinbureau.com/interview/horizen-rebrand-zen/

 Coin Bureau are one of Binance's official coin review partners.

The interview presents very detailed chronological history of Horizen, from ZenCash beginning to Horizen Brand expansion, and some key points on Scaling and Governance aspects on Horizen platform in terms of Q/A presentation.
This one is very helpful, informative, and one of fundamental article on ZenCash/Horizen (for now) which newcomers should spend their time to read at first.

[MedaR]

Great article from our General Council - Dean Steinbeck



https://cryptolawinsider.com/horizen/

[MedaR]

We have been notified of an ongoing SCAM on Facebook created by a page called "ZenCash Crypto"

 

This page has absolutely nothing to do with Horizen nor any member of the Horizen team, please treat with extreme prejudice.
We will do everything we can to have it taken down as soon as possible.

[MedaR]

Tune into our live biweekly community call today at 1 PM EDT



http://youtube.com/c/Horizen/live

[MedaR]

Horizen: Q&A  Robert Viglione

12. Are there plans in the future to completely move away from POW into full POS?

We don’t have plans to abandon POW right now, but of course our scientists and engineers are already considering alternatives. We have to consider all options for innovation and growth, and there are some excellent reasons to consider POS, or even other alternatives. Our first experiment with POS will be on our sidechain system. Our mainchain will remain POW, but our first sidechains are being designed as POS systems for massive transaction throughput and to leverage our large node network as certifying agents. Future R&D will explore POW alternatives, but for now we feel POW is the most secure and battle tested system.

https://medium.com/@Panama_TJ/horizen-q-a-5c565f9b7ee7

[BossBee]

What's the status on plug and play secure nodes?

[AngryWhiteWolf]

What's the status on plug and play secure nodes?

Didn't know that this was in plan, but it would be awesome. At the moment, even if the documentation is re-written there are way too many steps to follow in order to create a secure node.
Compared to other masternode coins, ZEN is the most difficult to create.

[TheHas]

What's the status on plug and play secure nodes?

There are some node hosting services that work pretty well. Chainsaw ninja and cryptonode just to name a couple.

All you need is the prerequisite number of zen in a pubkic wallet address and you're good to go.

[BossBee]

What's the status on plug and play secure nodes?

There are some node hosting services that work pretty well. Chainsaw ninja and cryptonode just to name a couple.

All you need is the prerequisite number of zen in a pubkic wallet address and you're good to go.

Wow good info. How does the community feel about these services? Are they tried and true?

[Anarchist]

What's the status on plug and play secure nodes?

There are some node hosting services that work pretty well. Chainsaw ninja and cryptonode just to name a couple.

All you need is the prerequisite number of zen in a pubkic wallet address and you're good to go.

Wow good info. How does the community feel about these services? Are they tried and true?

The community is (generally speaking) happy to see such services launched as it shows the growing interest and it helps the ecosystem.
I have neer hear about a scam service so far,  however there are some with a good background, if you check the discord channel you may find some discussion about it.

[Anarchist]

And ladies and gentlemen.....
7 Reasons Why This Is the World’s Most Exciting Blockchain Project Right Now

https://cryptolawinsider.com/horizen/

[Rossi46]

i believe that it will trend upward in a short time. but the bountys for signature campaigns should be increased and more people should participate. 

[TheHas]

What's the status on plug and play secure nodes?

There are some node hosting services that work pretty well. Chainsaw ninja and cryptonode just to name a couple.

All you need is the prerequisite number of zen in a pubkic wallet address and you're good to go.

Wow good info. How does the community feel about these services? Are they tried and true?

Most node host services for zen are part of the community and zen is purposefully set up in a way that you don't need to share your private key to use these services, so your funds are safe.

Here is an interview with chainsaw: https://medium.com/@jtoownus/chainsaw-ninja-a-zencash-secure-node-hosting-service-364bb43b01dd

Here is interview with 'thesesecurenodes': https://medium.com/@jtoownus/interview-with-thesecurenodes-df016fcb7f0a

I've been using 'cryptonode' and no complaints. Provided payment for hosting with zen, and node payments have been coming through no problem

[mummybtc]

I want to ask is there any reward for carrying Horizen signature? If there is where is the link. Thanks

[MedaR]

What's the status on plug and play secure nodes?

There are some node hosting services that work pretty well. Chainsaw ninja and cryptonode just to name a couple.

All you need is the prerequisite number of zen in a pubkic wallet address and you're good to go.

Wow good info. How does the community feel about these services? Are they tried and true?

There is a community list of hosting plans known to work.
https://zencash.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ZEN/pages/7537080/Community+Hosting+and+Setup+List
Join discord and get direct confirmations from their customers.
 

[MedaR]

I want to ask is there any reward for carrying Horizen signature? If there is where is the link. Thanks

No rewards, you can wear it as supporter, we don't have open campaigns.

[noobtrader]

Thanks for the info, i was looking for this  MN hosting service

[Flodner]

Cryptotexty Talk with Robert Viglione, HORIZEN Co-Founder and Team Lead


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvikFBGriG8&t

I already shared this interview, but now my friend-colleague made a "plan" so I'm sharing it for those who don't like to watch long videos but might jump to some particular point

@0:20 Impression of Robert Viglione about Ukraine and Ukrainian crypto community.
@1:11 Horizen plans to expand its presence in Ukraine. Ukrainian partners of Horizen.
@2:03 Why did ZenCash rebrending happen? What are the results?
@3:09 About the previous ZenCash logo and the new Horizen logo.
@5:43 Ukraine is a number three country in terms of ZenCash nodes.
@6:14 What new projects are Horizen planning to launch?
@8:09 Data monetization - the technology of the future. How does it work?
@9:13 Blockchain alternative to social networks and online stores.
@11:39 Impression of Robert Viglione about the Blockchain worldwide trends.
@12:55 Why the Austrian School of Economics is important for cryptocurrency world in general. Books recommendations by Robert Viglione.
@16:51 Be humble! - Valuable advice of Robert Viglione.
@17:11 What book is Robert Viglione reading now?
@17:56 About the famoust economists. Ludwig Von Mises was born in Lviv, Ukraine.
@19:01 The main books that influenced the economic ideas of Robert Viglione.
@20:30 The boom in the book publishing on IT and cryptocurrencies in Ukraine.
@21:17 Philosophical thoughts about the trade barriers. 
@22:54 The idea to adapt new technologies and AI in the legal area in Ukraine.
@24:32 The Free city project by Paul Romer.
@25:14 NGOs are more effective than the other institutes of state power in Ukraine.
@25:56 An important function of Blockchain is the separation of money from the state.
@27:29 Token might be recognized as an analogy of share. 
@28:01 Milton Friedman's idea of investing in education, how it works in the United States.
@29:45 How much cryptocurrencies does Robert Viglione own?
@30:09 Horizen has a big number of nodes, even more than Bitcoin.
@30:50 The plans of Robert Viglione for future. The next steps for the development of Horizen.

[Conasse]

You already posted this video

[Flodner]

You already posted this video

Yes, I know but this time I posted it with plan (brief info)

By the way today in Blockchain Hub I met the person who came to speak briefly with Robert Viglione on BlockchainUA and asked me to translate (as he doesn't speak English). At that time he was thinking about node and today he said that he got a node!)