I was on a flight yesterday and had the chance to talk Web3 and cryptocurrencies to an interesting group of people. One of the guys told me that he still can’t put his mind around why cryptocurrencies have value. What’s the point? Aren’t they just for speculation? Cryptocurrencies and Web3…

Last week we kicked off a vigorous debate in the Horizen ecosystem about whether we should pivot away from being a privacy coin. I published my thoughts here, basically coming down on the side that we should approve ZenIP 42204 and deprecate the shielded pool on the Mainchain. The community…

Horizen launched as a privacy coin called ZenCash in May of 2017, and you can see from both the new name and the website’s tag line of being a “Zero-Knowledge Enabled Network of Blockchains” that the project has evolved a lot over the years. We’re now at a point where…