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$ZEN co-founder, former US Navy nuclear submarine officer. Building web3 ZK proof verification systems @ZKVProtocol | @horizenglobal | BAYC 7077
Joined March 2010
Our 2.1 MW Bitcoin mining facility is currently shut down, and getting questions on why that is. It has to do with the cyclical Bitcoin mining philosophy I developed since beginning with a single Antminer S-7 in 2016. The best time to make money in Bitcoin mining is when the.
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@DaleStarkA10 That’s why they are putting so much money into robots and AI. Then it will be the IT guy that has a compound.
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@sweatystartup My brother-in-law flew LifeFlight helicopters in Georgia. He would fly to car accidents and take the people who could be saved to Grady as fast as possible. We were going to get a new car and my wife asked him what he recommended. He said when he got to an accident the people.
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@JD_DeYonker When I sold my business, understanding working capital requirements took quite a while, especially since we sold to government and took a long time to get paid. That discussion should be one of the first things to do as part of the deal, not one of the last.
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Horizen is completely pivoting the goal of the project right now. This is a huge bet on the direction of the blockchain space. Building a composable and modular ZK proof verification blockchain. First use case is to reduce the cost of Validity Proofs for Ethereum L2 ZK
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This was a well done online event - looking forward to more in the future!. If you are at all interested in how ZK proofs help scale web3 while bringing trust, privacy, and ownership to online interactions, follow everyone named in this article.
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@Devon_Eriksen_ Used to operate a radiothermal steam generator plant on a submarine. We started it up, shut it down, did all sorts of things with it. Worked with a bunch of good guys that knew how to take care of it. It is very safe and effective. Ran for years with hardly any maintenance.
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@pope_head You have this exactly backward. Bugs Bunny cartoons made me love classical music.
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@naomirwolf @TDBank_US Just wait till you have your bank account shut down, and they don’t have to tell you why, because they’re protected by legislation. Has happened to me multiple times.
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@Austen We should have a time zone where the sun is overhead at approximately noon. that is not daylight savings time.
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@BikesandBitcoin A veritable shotgun blast of contradictory statements, with some gratuitous ad hominem dismissiveness thrown in for good measure. This is fun!. I see that your organizations appear to be based in Castle rock, Colorado and Wyoming. Both those places have a warm spot in my heart.
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@BlindMansBinary @SwiftOnSecurity @krenaud I was on a submarine in Hawaii and was the chem/radcon officer tracking the crew's exposure. less exposure while deployed underwater than on the beach at Hawaii, and if anyone ever took their dosimeter on an airplane flight we had to account for the high exposure.
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@gas_biz Redneck investing. Sell the land and move 30 miles further away from the big city where land is still inexpensive, wait 20 years and do it again.
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Horizen zero knowledge proof verification chain is running on test net!. Horizen is focused on being the blockchain to provide zero knowledge proof verification capabilities to any ZK rollup on Ethereum, Bitcoin, or other settlement layer. In a modular and composable fashion,
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@sweatystartup I’m a nuclear engineer and after I got out of the Navy did not work in the nuclear industry. My father is also a nuclear engineer and although he did work in the nuclear industry, it continued to decline during his whole work career . He and I are now at two generations that.
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A big thank you to the House of ZK for being a leader in the ZK space!. One of the difficult things about being in a rapidly growing sectors is that it’s necessary to bring people in and onboard them as quickly as possible. Providing comprehensive education resources and dynamic.
The @Zk_Hub_Global presentation by @rolfversluis is now available on the @HouseofZK YouTube: . In this @EthereumDenver talk, @ZKVProtocol Developer Growth Lead Rolf Versluis shares insights from their recent online hackathon, highlighting innovative Web3
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Highlighting @hyperbridge as a Sponsor for the @ZKVProtocol ZK App and Infra online hackathon. @seunlanlege and team are offering a $3000 for an ERC-7683 project that leverages Hyperbridge as a message passing layer (an intent protocol) before Dec 10th. Registration link below
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ZK-proof verifications in the web3 space will cost much less when crypto project @horizenglobal ($ZEN) changes its mainchain to a Proof of Stake with callable zk primitive methods. Any Ethereum dapp or ZK-rollup will be able to use the service. Just pay in ZEN
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Leaders in the ZK space discussing privacy and scalability with new ZK protocols. Proving truth with advanced cryptography is an essential part of the next web3 growth leg up. @0xZeeve @ZKVProtocol @zksync @0xPolygon
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New post from @HorizenLabs CEO @robviglione on a recommended path for @horizenglobal to adopt to maximize the opportunity for success in the ZK Proof Verification space while maximizing value for existing $ZEN holders is posted. I fully support this recommended change! . It.
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Horizen community is discussing disabling private transactions. This will change ZEN so it is no longer a privacy cryptocurrency. It is a big change. I support this change to @horizenglobal because ZEN ZK capable sidechains are flexible and powerful.
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@ScottAdamsSays The next part is is figuring out what action you can take to make sure you are living in a place with the things that you and your family need when the system becomes unsustainable.
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Remember how it all started? When I was working directly for $ZEN?. Horizen @horizenglobal has a Foundation now. stay tuned
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@grayzoneintel I think this is the main reason for why there is such a push to develop AI robots.
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@WallStreetSilv My dad is Dutch, and the Netherlands used to be part of the Spanish Empire, so my children are for sure hispanic.
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Horizen 2.0 will be the best EVM for zk-dApps! . Will use the native verifiers of @ZKVProtocol across their internal bridge. Rapid, inexpensive zk-dApps will have a home on @horizenglobal
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You might ask yourself why the tokenomics of $ZEN are changing?. It’s a major technical upgrade:. -PoW to PoS on Substrate . -Double staking rewards. -Decentralized governance . -EVM with advanced ZK. -Accelerated token unlocks. -Well funded DAO. -Foundation Leadership.
The final $ZEN halving is around the corner!🌗. 📅 On Dec 12, 2024, only 15 days away, $ZEN will experience its last halving as we prepare to implement the new tokenomics in 2025. After this major milestone, there will be no more halvings, as the new model introduces a
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@BikesandBitcoin I don’t want to have a power purchase agreement. A power purchase agreement obligates the organization to buy a specific amount of power for a specific amount of time. This takes away spending control from the owners of the organization. It is one of the major reasons why in.
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Very excited to work with Hyperbridge!. As we get closer to mainnet and TGE for @ZKVProtocol key partnerships to enable composability and ease of use are super important!. @seunlanlege and team are leaders in the web3 space, creating impactful technology for multichain success.
We are thrilled to announce our strategic partnership with zkVerify (@ZKVProtocol) to bring cheap zk proof verification to the multi-chain. Hyperbridge will make verified zk proofs securely accessible across multiple blockchain networks. 1/4 🧵
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Build a sidechain app using .@horizenglobal Software Development Kit. Truly decentralized sidechain transfers using recursive zk-snarks, a game-changer for building custom apps using blockchain. See first video here:
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@HouseofZK @HorizenLabs @ZKVProtocol What a great venue and set up, thanks for all the hard work by the team to making this House of ZK event a success!.
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@horizenglobal The next four months for $ZEN are going to be lit. It’s going to be a consistent stream of accelerating attention with a combination of entirely new technology and new capabilities culminating in the blockchain technology migration in about 4 months!.
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@rohindhar Best part is you can buy a military surplus Humvee from the local Marine Corps base, then buy yourself some local pine plantation forest and drive it around!.
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Do you like what you are hearing about @horizenglobal ?. Buy ZEN on Coinbase, or in you brokerage account ticker HZEN
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Let’s go!! 🎉🎉. Testnet is live for fflonk and boojum proof verification as used by @zksync . Try it on your own computer using the demo script at
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Well, that escalated quickly. @horizenglobal $zen hit a new all-time high of 71 in USD. Nice to see recognition in the markets for all the hard work over the last four years!
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@horizenglobal has many supporters all over the world, especially in Korea and China. Earlier this year our supporters made it very clear that rapid technology upgrade was important, tokenomics could be changed, but do not touch the 21 million $ZEN cap . What is the halvening? 🧵.
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@HorizenLabs has posted the proposal for upgrading the two existing @horizenglobal blockchains to a single new blockchain based on a modern and proven framework! . See link in comment below for details and discussion
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@Grayscale Grayscale is an important partner to the Horizen community and has been a longtime staunch supporter of the project. Lots of improvements coming in Horizen 2.0 next quarter - Proof of Stake, new EVM tech, and advanced ZK Proofs for privacy dApps that can be regulatory compliant.
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This is the biggest potential change to @horizenglobal in the history of Horizen since launch in 2017!. The community, through the Horizen DAO voting process, will need to propose these changes as a ZenIP and pass the ZenIP for these changes to happen. As co-founder of Horizen,
New video explaining 3 potential paths from the current @horizenglobal dual blockchain system with Horizen $ZEN and EVM to a new dual blockchain system with ZK Proof Verification chain and EVM. This one took a bit of research, thought, and planning. It encompasses the past few.
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@ATabarrok When my US bank account accounts were getting closed, I opened up a Norwegian bank account. But unfortunately I didn’t fill out the required US person KYC/AML paperwork every year, even though no information had changed . Under threat from the United States government, the.
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The Horizen $ZEN Foundation will be holding votes to potentially replace four of the 7 members of the Horizen DAO Special Council on Feb 15th. Everyone who has been with us for a while, especially OG's from 2017, think about who you would like to have represent the community 🧵.
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@gregisenberg That’s not sales. Sales is figuring out what the individual customer wants and crafting a solution for them, making life better for the buyer and the seller.
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The ZK developer space is growing fast this year! @ZKVProtocol online hackathon signups are going up every day - this is exciting!. 2 weeks left until projects are due, plenty of time for more people to join-$26k in prizes . Most people signed up have ZK experience so far 🧵
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Great news!. As of today, Horizen Labs has decided to immediately move forward on developing and deploying a new ZK Proof Verification blockchain as rapidly as possible, independently from any decisions made by the Horizen community. The ZK Proof Verification blockchain will.
This is the biggest potential change to @horizenglobal in the history of Horizen since launch in 2017!. The community, through the Horizen DAO voting process, will need to propose these changes as a ZenIP and pass the ZenIP for these changes to happen. As co-founder of Horizen,
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After the upgrade Horizen will be a proof of stake EVM, with ZK proof verification extensions. These are the same extensions that are being developed for @ZKVProtocol which enable fast and inexpensive proof creation and verifications. So what’s this give us?.
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Check out this game ON APECHAIN !!!.
More brawlers. More skills. More chaos. Our latest update is now LIVE 👇.
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This is a big change for Horizen! And for my involvement with ZEN. Since we launched ZenCash in 2017, which became Horizen, I've helped to guide the development and operation of ZEN, first as one of two active co-founders, then as a board member of Zen Blockchain Foundation.
1/ 🥳The Horizen community is excited to announce the launch of the Horizen DAO! This is a key milestone in decentralized governance and marks the beginning of a new era of participatory governance for the Horizen community.
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@emollick Everyone misses the point. Organizations beat their competitors by pushing decision-making to the lowest level possible. Training and delegating authority with responsibility is what makes things happen faster and better.
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When we founded @horizenglobal it was obvious that Zero Knowledge was going to be essential to the success of web3. As ZEN migrates to a 100% Proof of Stake EVM with ZK verification extensions, we are also updating tokenomics for:. - More security through more staking. -
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@zksync @oxPolygon @Starknet @Scroll_ZKP @LineaBuild @HorizenLabs @gelatonetwork @horizenglobal Horizen will be completely transformed over the next year. It will be an exciting ride!
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@gas_biz Rent an RV in Las Vegas and see the national parks in Utah. Did that a couple years ago with the family was the best vacation ever.
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How many protocols that are coming up on their second proof of work halving are going through as much change and improvement as Horizen is? . $ZEN.8 years.21 million coin limit.
Horizen has a new brand look and feel, let's discuss all about it!
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@sarahbeth345 Now that people realize the much of the information from the government about covid is a lie. Gotta ask, is this the first time the US government has lied on such a massive scale?. If not, what else do we believe that is a lie?.
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The zkVerify white paper crafted by @zainlabs explains the @HorizenLabs zk proof verification thesis clearly. zk proofs on Ethereum are limited by the BN254 zk pre-compiles, making them slow and expensive. zkVerify frees developers from these constraints! Fast and inexpensive
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The Horizen Labs developer team is outstanding!. @ZKVProtocol will soon be the network hub for web2 applications bringing verified information to web3. Unlimited scaling with Substrate parachains. Trust by verification.
We’re excited to share that we've successfully attached a test version of the #Horizen 2.0 Parachain to a #zkVerify @ZKVProtocol test Relay Chain, bringing both networks into the same ecosystem! 🎉. Here’s what this milestone means:. 🟡Simultaneous block production and seamless
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We’re building toward a world where ZK proofs are generated in many different ways and places for . - private communication. - voting and polling. - proving randomness. - proving information flows from web2 to web3 applications . Every proof generated needs to be verified.
The ZkBoost Consortium is governed collectively by industry leaders, including direct competitors. No monetization, no single ownership—just a shared commitment to advancing ZK and making it accessible for all. YES to the governance for the public good!.
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Today, zk validity proof.verification is done by a Solidity smart contract on Ethereum. Solidity has no ZK primitive methods, leading to expensive Ethereum gas fees for these rollups. More than $50 million in 2023. Horizen will have provers written in Rust and C++, much more
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Ready for some new whiteboard videos???. Let’s go over how ZK proofs are used today in web3, and how then Horizen Proof Verification chain is going to make them better!. Link to video in first comment below
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@shagbark_hick They think you’re wrong about stuff, then 3-10 years later their opinions finally match up. But at that point you’re looking 3-10 years ahead, and they still think you’re crazy. You’re not crazy, just early. They just don’t see it. For some reason they can’t.
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This is a really important discussion for the future of @horizenglobal . I am totally in support of this proposal and encourage all $ZEN holders to join the discussion.
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@Polkadot @hyperbridge @ZKVProtocol is Substrate based and will be connecting to the rest of the web3 through Hyperbridge. Fast and inexpensive proof verifications. Verify once, share everywhere.
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Here is today’s announcement, Horizen will be an L3 app chain Building on Base!
We're making Base faster, simpler, and more powerful. - Flashblocks make Base 10x faster.- Appchains allow apps to scale.- Smart Wallet Sub Accounts make coming onchain way simpler for everyone. What are you going to build?.
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@aaron__foster Luxor or has done some unique and positive things in the mining space, for sure. Was pointing my antminer Z15’s at y’all’s pool a while back. Been using third-party software for years mostly based on vnish. I believe neither hedging nor running efficiency improving software.
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@woonomic Everyone will need to start reporting all their assets to the IRS. That’s a big change.
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Presenting on Horizen Sidechains tomorrow 10:30 eastern at the BlockSec conference. Checkout the full conference schedule here:
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Went to a very impressive event this weekend in Atlanta, the Web3 ATL conference put on by @404DAO . Learned a lot, and had the opportunity to share the good news of the @horizenglobal EON L2 Ethereum virtual machine launch with many people.
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Stacked builders panel for @ZKVProtocol ongoing ZK App and Infra hackathon on Nov 26 at 0930 EST 1530 CET!. @david_of_earth Co-founder @hyperbridge .Joshua Peng, Head of Strategy at @zkPass .@zainlabs CTO of Horizen Labs. Join us live tomorrow!.
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@BritishHodl The US states are very different from one another . They are like different European countries. The course correction is led by the states. The safety valve is the state led constitutional convention.
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@ZKVProtocol is in testnet now - watch this video to see how this system works to lower costs for existing zk-proofs and enables new types of zk-proofs - like ones using the BLS381 curve. Video link in first comment below
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@NCM4Ever Their parents didn’t teach them to question what they were learning in K-12 school.
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Want lower cost zk proofs for your web3 dApp or zk rollup? Check out this video.
zk tech in action 🤍. integrating #zkVerify into zk-based rollups and dApps significantly reduces proof verification costs by over 90% 💫. see this in action 👇.
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Had a great time at Boundless sponsored by @RiscZero, excellent presentations and panels!. Enjoyed a pleasant discussion with @BruestleJeremy about the @ZKVProtocol Risc0 STARK verifier. Huge potential cost savings on proof generation when the zkSNARK final step is removed
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