Re: [ANN][ZEN] Horizen: Bringing Privacy To Life [EX ZenCash]

For me, ZenCash is more powerful. I'm not sure what the exact reason is for fully rebranding. Maybe only design & logo can be changed.

It's more about a brand expansion to represents the perspective of the community. Horizen is not only a cryptocurrency but a platform with privacy-focused apps. So Horizen needed more than a fresh logo and the website revamped.

I'm curious, how will an individual's data be protected (private) BEFORE it gets put on their "privacy" blockchain?

I'm not asking about currency that can be kept private with a hardware wallet. I'm asking about a piece of hardware your data is on before it gets on another piece of hardware that's not encrypted and may be compromised BEFORE it gets uploaded to their blockchain. Or visa-versa, data that's on a piece of hardware [That may be compromised] and someone now wants to put that data on a privacy blockchain AFTER that data has already been compromised from being entered on a piece of hardware that has been compromised.

The marketing sounds great and all but has everyone REALLY thought this through?

I would say it's also up to the users to understand what is needed to do/get for a real privacy. It's a matter of education (I think)
It's a little like aiming to use a cryptocurrency to get a financial privacy, but then exchanging the coins to fiat and transfer to a bank account
If you store your data on a compromised hardware and then on a privacy blockchain, then the privacy here may be not private anymore...

But as Medar mentioned projects are based on technology but not hardware.
The technology will improve as fast as the light speed. When we were using our Nokia 3310 who knew in 2018 we will be talking to OK Google to know the weather