[ANN][ZEN] Horizen: Unbounded By Design

[MedaR]

Is anyone updating the Community VPS List? The options seem to be getting smaller and smaller.

The options get updated mostly from community feedback for what people are actually using. But as the blockchain has grown, many providers are no longer price competitive or unable to run a ZEN node any longer due to no support for expanded volumes or additional disks. Until the price of ZEN moves up and the blockchain increases even more in size to where another new class of VPS makes sense to use, the number of viable VPS providers may decrease. Right now, it is more economical to have a hosting provider run your nodes for you than to run them yourself on a VPS. This is a pretty well understood concept by anyone with technical knowledge of how this marketplace works and what the future demands/needs will be.
It is fairly predictable.

[MedaR]

I asked many times for lack of certain efforts and mostly received non-answers. When I point to problems, I get "You help fix it!" type answers. If I did not know better, I'd think Horizen is actively trying to stay under the radar for some reason. I just can't think of one valid reason why.

Team is putting a lot of efforts in meetups and direct communication with community, meeting new people and creating connections.

6 April: Horizen & SFL Meetup - Kaduna, Nigeria
8-12 April “Blockchain Bootcamp” Politecnico di Milano - Milan, Italy
10-12 April: 2nd ZKProof Workshop - Berkeley, California
17-18 April: IOHK Summit 2019 - Miami, Florida
24 April: La CryptoPinte Meetup - Strasbourg, France
27 April: Horizen Meetup - Valencia, Venezuela
3 May: Intl. Cyber Security Festival - Tbilisi, Georgia
13-15 May: Consensus 2019 - New York City, USA
13-15 May: Bosch Connected Experience Hackathon - Berlin, Germany
14 May: Horizen Meetup - New York City, USA
14 May: Horizen Sydney Meetup - Sydney, Australia
15 May: Horizen Lagos Meetup - Lagos, Nigeria
17-19 May: Blockchain Dev Conference - Chongqing, China
28 May: Horizen Meetup - Bogota Colombia
30-31 May - Blockchain Hotel Conference - Essen, Germany
20-22 June: Zcon1 Annual Privacy Conference in Split, Croatia
28 June: Horizen Meetup in Tbilisi, Georgia

Yes I asked you if you have any advise as community member, because you disagreed with some actions.

   

[darrenyu]

I update the latest zend on Ubuntu 18.04.
Bit it take lot time to sync blocks.
some vps only take two days, but one vps takes more than 4 days..
How to copy other sync ok data on vps to another not sync yet vps?

[MedaR]

I update the latest zend on Ubuntu 18.04.
Bit it take lot time to sync blocks.
some vps only take two days, but one vps takes more than 4 days..
How to copy other sync ok data on vps to another not sync yet vps?

The instructions explicitly tell how to bootstrap from node to node.
https://horizenofficial.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ZEN/pages/136872102/Part+3c+-+Bootstrap+From+an+Existing+Node+SCP+Method

Anyway, please join our discord channel #node_tech_support  you have invite in my signature.

[MedaR]

Horizen is now on Magnum Wallet! HODL your ZEN on this user-friendly, highly functional wallet today!
The Magnum wallet is one of many ZEN friendly wallets.



See our full list here https://www.horizen.global/wallets/

[falsealarm_bf1]

Did the last monthly update contain anything on the distributed VPN service and supernodes? I don't remember having heard anything but it was a long update video as usual. I may have missed.

[MedaR]

Did the last monthly update contain anything on the distributed VPN service and supernodes? I don't remember having heard anything but it was a long update video as usual. I may have missed.

The last monthly update didn't contain an update on VPN. Our primary focus is the release of Horizen sidechains.

Here is slideshow from a monthly update: https://forum.horizen.global/t/slides-from-a-monthly-updates/2834/7

[milugau]

The last monthly update didn't contain an update on VPN. Our primary focus is the release of Horizen sidechains.

Here is slideshow from a monthly update: https://forum.horizen.global/t/slides-from-a-monthly-updates/2834/7

Among project born in 2017, Horizen, (formerly ZenCash) is one of the strongest and most professional crypto currencies. It is not only reflected on the  survival of Horizen over months with Bear domination, but also demonstrated through the development of Horizen. It's the way Horizen team increased privacy of the coin, and created, then managed Horizen forum so well. I saw that active communication between Horizen team and their community is another plus point.

[MedaR]

 

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zencash/#ratings

[MedaR]

Horizen CoolWallet S is in the Store!

[bel123]

great... but still after 1 or 2 years i told it - horizen has no marketing... Horizen never will be succesfull until marketing will be one of the most important thing.

You don't learn anything...

My i think last lesson here Crypto is for now... one big manipulation and winners are only there where is great marketing, hype... even fake news is important. Fundamentals means almost nothing yet in this area... without marketing it means nothing. You zencash, horizen still has no marketing and you don't see this problem... marketing is most important thing in crypto! There will be always many cypto coins, platforms better or worse... but at the and winners are only these people who know how to advertise, how important is marketing.

You even  lost power which you had from Palm Beach Research recommendation... and still you don't learn anything

I still have some horizen coins but if you don't change anything in this area (marketing)... i will change these coins to project, coins where marketing is very important and high level.... we will have new ATH for next 1-2 years on btc... don;t loose these days to advertise horizen like you lost last years in this area!

[drent301]

I believe this is one of the most promising projects regarding a complete privacy platform.
The team is very transparent en professional.

Like all other altcoins out there, ZEN is bleeding against a stronger bitcoin.
I believe the value of a project is not always in the price.

The one lesson i learned in crypto is never sell in a dip. 

[MedaR]

The one lesson i learned in crypto is never sell in a dip. 

My advice for everybody is to do its own research. And if you are in "Crypto", golden rule is to arm yourself with patience. This is still relatively new industry and need some time to be accepted.

[MedaR]

but still after 1 or 2 years i told it - horizen has no marketing... Horizen never will be succesfull until marketing will be one of the most important thing.
You don't learn anything...

This is not true, it depends from what perspective you are watching. Currently whatever you do on market won't have some significant influence on price while Bitcoin doing its Ups and Downs.
This situation is in the whole Crypto. What are your suggestions? What should be changed?

You even  lost power which you had from Palm Beach Research recommendation... and still you don't learn anything

What power? They played their games as they are doing with all other projects. After 51% on Horizen network - >  https://blog.horizen.global/zencash-statement-on-double-spend-attack/ they did and nice dump casued with wrong and inacurete statements at that time. So lets forget those pumpers groups, no real value behind!

[bel123]

but still after 1 or 2 years i told it - horizen has no marketing... Horizen never will be succesfull until marketing will be one of the most important thing.
You don't learn anything...

This is not true, it depends from what perspective you are watching. Currently whatever you do on market won't have some significant influence on price while Bitcoin doing its Ups and Downs.
This situation is in the whole Crypto. What are your suggestions? What should be changed?

You even  lost power which you had from Palm Beach Research recommendation... and still you don't learn anything

What power? They played their games as they are doing with all other projects. After 51% on Horizen network - >  https://blog.horizen.global/zencash-statement-on-double-spend-attack/ they did and nice dump casued with wrong and inacurete statements at that time. So lets forget those pumpers groups, no real value behind!

You always has answer/explanation... why horizen stands in place There were many chances to move this project to next level, make it more popular, more fameuos, be in top30-50 on coinmarket... Since few years you can't move stabilly to top100 on coinmarket - why? Because there is no marketing, never was and still nothing changed and learned. I suggested many times what you should do in many areas (marketing), i even wanted help (not now)... but i think you don;t see value in marketing, thats why horizen isn;t succesfull. It was good, such attitude 20 years ago, now almost everything is based on marketing, "selling ideas and plans" to people...

Because of PBR, their authority zencash then price move from $8-10 to more then $20-25 and many people because of them saw in this project value, future. This situation you also didn;t want to use to promote this project even more.

If you want to make something good to this project - hire somebody smart (marketing guru) who can make horizen popular (there is many ways to do it)

[MedaR]

Horizen core software mandatory upgrade is Today.

All exchange partners, mining pools, and full node wallet users must upgrade to ZEN 2.0.18 to avoid disruption to Horizen services.

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


The latest release of  SpherebyHorizen 1.1.2 Beta is now available for download.

It includes the latest ZEN core software (2.0.18) upgrade and bug fixes.
https://horizenofficial.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ZEN/pages/714309893/Sphere+-be1.1.2ta+For+ZEN+2.0.18+and+Bug+Fixes



Horizen CoolWallet S is in the store!

Now, not only can you store your ZEN securely, but also do it in style.

Even cooler is ongoing giveaway of a coolwallet! Join now https://gleam.io/l1ZXF/horizen-coolwallet-s-giveaway


Many members already received their wallets, including me
https://www.reddit.com/r/Horizen/comments/cgg8tu/i_got_my_horizen_coolwallet_s/

[MedaR]

Another educative post from Manon, enjoy reading!

https://medium.com/@manon_71723/blockchain-consensus-10a88cbca494

[MedaR]

https://youtu.be/JdLTUyIB5bY

[MedaR]

"Tribute to Open-Source" by Manon


https://medium.com/@manon_71723/tribute-to-open-source-5311868943f0

[MedaR]

 ZEN is now available on Cryptofacil Exchange. Get your ZEN:USD and ZEN:BTC trading pairs.




Join us next Wednesday 08/07 at 1 PM EST/ 5 PM UTC. Few HUGE new updates for you including Horizen Sidechains, Horizen Developer Environment, and ZenTrivia.