Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said privacy-focused blockchain Midnight has no plans to incorporate privacy maxis from the zcash and monero communities into the Midnight chain.
“You’re not trying to get anyone from Monero or ZCash over,” he said during a Q&A session at Consensus Hong Kong on Thursday.
“They will certainly come in their own time, but they are a different demographic,” he said. “These are people who wake up every day and they really care about privacy and they matter and they’re important, but what we’re going after are the billions of people who don’t know they need privacy but by default give it to them.”
Midnight announced Thursday that its mainnet will go live in March as a partner chain to Cardano.
Hoskinson then argued that eto’s privacy is not as simplistic as the monero and zcash communities often allude to.
“What Monero and ZCash have tried to convince people is that it’s like a light switch. We’re private. The switch is on. Everyone else isn’t. The switch is off. It doesn’t work like that,” he said.
