[ANN][ZEN] Horizen: Unbounded By Design

[MedaR]

WTF???
Time spent blocks looks very strange. Could there be an attack on network?

Pools are free to set block timestamps within the consensus rules, blocks with a timestamp > mintime as exposed by getblocktemplate are accepted by the network. Don't worry

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[MedaR]

The Horizen monthly live recap video with Angie

https://youtu.be/jl1gv8B0L-Y

[MedaR]

ZEN 2.0.18 will be available soon.

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

The focus of this version is the RPC method ‘getblockfinalityindex’ update.

https://blog.horizen.global/mandatory-software-upgrade-coming-soon-zen-2-0-18/

[MedaR]

Rolf Versluis discusses crypto mining, digital privacy, Horizen, and much more with Satoshi Sean in this fantastic interview.

Watch it here https://youtu.be/TdUvwhTcOro

[ZenFrenchManon]

Hi zenmates!

Did you know that ZEN is now available on Simple Swap ?

Here the link:

https://twitter.com/horizenglobal/status/1141474899304648704
https://simpleswap.io/coins/horizen

Have you ever tried Simple Swap?

[falsealarm_bf1]

Whoever this Crypto Sean is I respect the effort, but it's clear this is a channel with very low production values that can't be taken seriously. Why waste time and effort on coordinating and executing something like this video? And the worst of all, how come such a video gets more views than the videos released on Horizen's own channel? Something is amiss there, and it seems no one is trying to fix it. I hope this is a sign that you all are busy with other things that matter!

Rolf Versluis discusses crypto mining, digital privacy, Horizen, and much more with Satoshi Sean in this fantastic interview.

Watch it here https://youtu.be/TdUvwhTcOro

[MedaR]

Whoever this Crypto Sean is I respect the effort, but it's clear this is a channel with very low production values that can't be taken seriously. Why waste time and effort on coordinating and executing something like this video? And the worst of all, how come such a video gets more views than the videos released on Horizen's own channel? Something is amiss there, and it seems no one is trying to fix it. I hope this is a sign that you all are busy with other things that matter!

Rolf Versluis discusses crypto mining, digital privacy, Horizen, and much more with Satoshi Sean in this fantastic interview.

Watch it here https://youtu.be/TdUvwhTcOro

This is our new community member, he showed interested in Horizen, they wanted to do an video and we arranged an interview.   
This is not wasting of time, especially not wasting of resources as this came from community for community. I'm not sure about your statement about value of their channel but this is exactly what we need spreading the word of ZEN, don't you think? You would be surprised how expensive can be such interviews on bigger channels..From my standpoint it is important to constantly be present on all social medias.

[falsealarm_bf1]

I will state it again. As far as Horizen's marketing strategy, there is something amiss. There is little to no engagement on any social platform level for Horizen. Heck, recently if a few people did not post here, this thread would be dead. Official YouTube channel videos garner less than 1K in views in their lifetime. Twitter is silent, and I could not tell you what's there on Slack or Discord. If the budget did not include funds for marketing, I'd say screw it because you get what you pay for. But in this case, there is a set aside for this purpose, yet nothing of value is put forth. Then, you see 44 minutes of video which again garners no significant views, conveys no new message on a channel with 9K subscribers and we are all expected to agree this is the best Rolf or any member of the foundation can do.

Whoever this Crypto Sean is I respect the effort, but it's clear this is a channel with very low production values that can't be taken seriously. Why waste time and effort on coordinating and executing something like this video? And the worst of all, how come such a video gets more views than the videos released on Horizen's own channel? Something is amiss there, and it seems no one is trying to fix it. I hope this is a sign that you all are busy with other things that matter!

Rolf Versluis discusses crypto mining, digital privacy, Horizen, and much more with Satoshi Sean in this fantastic interview.

Watch it here https://youtu.be/TdUvwhTcOro

This is our new community member, he showed interested in Horizen, they wanted to do an video and we arranged an interview.  
This is not wasting of time, especially not wasting of resources as this came from community for community. I'm not sure about your statement about value of their channel but this is exactly what we need spreading the word of ZEN, don't you think? You would be surprised how expensive can be such interviews on bigger channels..From my standpoint it is important to constantly be present on all social medias.

[MedaR]

 ValueWalk (1.35 million monthly visits)

Rob Viglione, Horizen Co-founder and President:

The $10k price mark is a psychologically important milestone for the bitcoin community following the harshness of the crypto winter. While the price surge could be related to the question of supply (the bitcoin “halvening” event in which the mining reward will permanently reduce by 50% is less than a year away), the impact of recent announcements, like Apple’s CryptoKit launch and the release of Facebook’s Libra White Paper, have undoubtedly also had an encouraging effect on consumer confidence around cryptocurrencies.

https://www.valuewalk.com/2019/06/bitcoin-hit-10k-spillover-effect-looming/ 

[ZenFrenchManon]

Hi Zenmates.

Horizen is a story of privacy. What does it mean, why do we need to be private and why is this so hard today?
Today governments are following us, thanks to... us. We give them all the informations they need by sharing on our social media.

What happened?

I try to answer to this question in medium:

https://medium.com/@manon_71723/what-happened-with-privacy-fc38b50ac964

Feel free to comment, tell what you think

And tell me, why privacy is important to you?

[ZenFrenchManon]

Hi Zenmates

To remind you, there is a French channel on bitcoin talk, for the ones among you that are French.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2029147.new#new

Visit us for more fun

[MedaR]

Join Horizen and Binance for Angie Villarreal's AMA tomorrow at 8 PM EST.

https://forum.horizen.global/t/join-horizen-and-binance-for-angie-villarreals-ama/2947

[Yesolo]

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But you can easily calculate your return, using following links>

https://securenodes2.eu.zensystem.io/
https://supernodes1.eu.zensystem.io/

There you can get some clues about (Zen/Node/Day)
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I just wonder to know which case will bring more benefits to the Horizen ecosystem and its community: 10 secure nodes or 1 SuperNode? They’ve got similar ROI and cost as well.

[MedaR]

I just wonder to know which case will bring more benefits to the Horizen ecosystem and its community: 10 secure nodes or 1 SuperNode? They’ve got similar ROI and cost as well.

10 secure nodes are > than 1 super node if those are geographically distributed
There are currently disproportionately more super nodes relative to the stake than secure nodes.

[GlobalProtection]

Why is XZC going up while ZEN is lagging behind?  Please do not tell me it is because XZC is a better coin because that is not true ( ZEN is supported right now on the Bakkt platform whilc XZC right now is not ).  Please give me details about why XZC is rising while ZEN is languishing in price.  Thank you. Give me some great insight if you can.


Also, how are the coins similar and how are they different?  Are they both forks of the same mother coin?

[JasonSW]

Why is XZC going up while ZEN is lagging behind?  Please do not tell me it is because XZC is a better coin because that is not true ( ZEN is supported right now on the Bakkt platform whilc XZC right now is not ).  Please give me details about why XZC is rising while ZEN is languishing in price.  Thank you. Give me some great insight if you can.


Also, how are the coins similar and how are they different?  Are they both forks of the same mother coin?

Not sure why you keep asking at both ops, but not doing researching.

Code:

Are they both forks of the same mother coin?

[Wassopotamia]

help me
wats wrong ?
 status secure node
Node: 116251     zenmasteroff.jhfree.net     5.196.186.38   9033

Server: home: ts6.eu     current: ts6.eu

System: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz    2 cores

Versions: zen: 2001751     tracker: 0.4.0

Added: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 23:48:02 GMT

Updated: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 21:18:33 GMT

Cert Valid: true   

State: up - Check Exceptions

24999276   2019-06-21 17:29:50   2019-06-29 21:17:57   -   o   8d 03:48:07   chal   Exception created for failed challenge   

[MedaR]

help me
wats wrong ?
 status secure node
Node: 116251     zenmasteroff.jhfree.net     5.196.186.38   9033

Server: home: ts6.eu     current: ts6.eu

System: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz    2 cores

Versions: zen: 2001751     tracker: 0.4.0

Added: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 23:48:02 GMT

Updated: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 21:18:33 GMT

Cert Valid: true   

State: up - Check Exceptions

24999276   2019-06-21 17:29:50   2019-06-29 21:17:57   -   o   8d 03:48:07   chal   Exception created for failed challenge   

Witness for note commitment is null
You should try a rescan first, and if that doesn't resolve it a re-index.
last resort is export the keys from the wallet, generate a new wallet.dat and then import those keys

Code:

sudo systemctl stop zend zentracker && sleep 30

zend --rescan

watch -n 500 zen-cli getinfo

Once you get the expected output from the getinfo command, the rescan is complete. Hit CTRL+C to exit watch command.

Code:

zen-cli stop && sleep 30

sudo systemctl start zend && sleep 30

sudo systemctl start zentracker

[MedaR]

Why is XZC going up while ZEN is lagging behind?  Please do not tell me it is because XZC is a better coin because that is not true ( ZEN is supported right now on the Bakkt platform whilc XZC right now is not ).  Please give me details about why XZC is rising while ZEN is languishing in price.  Thank you. Give me some great insight if you can.

I would like to avoid spaculations if possible, BTC is on the move and this is the main cause for all this madness. ZEN/USD parity is pretty stable

Also, how are the coins similar and how are they different?  Are they both forks of the same mother coin?

Horizen began as a chainsplit from Zclassic, at block 110,000 so we can say it is not Direck frok from Zcash.  
More like this: BTC - ZCASH - ZCL - ZEN  ZEN is based on zero-knowledge encryption “zk-SNARKs”.

A common misconception is that Zcoin is a fork of Zcash. Zcoin is based off the Zerocoin paper while Zcash is based off the Zerocash paper. While the Zerocoin paper and Zerocash paper share common authors and both use zero knowledge proofs, they rely on different cryptography. There is otherwise no relation between the two projects.

Zcoin and ZEN use trusted setups, but they are implemented differently.

[MedaR]

Horizen Q2 2019 Review

https://blog.horizen.global/on-the-rise-horizen-q2-2019-review/