{"id":212693,"date":"2026-02-12T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/cardano-founder-charles-hoskinson-says-midnight-wont-chase-monero-zcash-users\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:00:10","slug":"cardano-founder-charles-hoskinson-says-midnight-wont-chase-monero-zcash-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/cardano-founder-charles-hoskinson-says-midnight-wont-chase-monero-zcash-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says Midnight won&#8217;t chase Monero, ZCash users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2026\/02\/12\/cardano-founder-charles-hoskinson-says-midnight-won-t-chase-monero-zcash-users\">Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says Midnight won&#8217;t chase Monero, ZCash users<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2026\/02\/12\/cardano-founder-charles-hoskinson-says-midnight-won-t-chase-monero-zcash-users\">https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2026\/02\/12\/cardano-founder-charles-hoskinson-says-midnight-won-t-chase-monero-zcash-users<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-12 11:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.coindesk.com\">www.coindesk.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said that privacy-focused blockchain Midnight doesn&#8217;t have plans to onboard privacy maxis from the zcash and monero communities to the Midnight chain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t try to get anybody from Monero or ZCash over,&#8221; he said during a Q&#038;A session at Consensus Hong Kong on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They certainly will come in their own time, but they&#8217;re a different demographic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Those are people that wake up every day and they really care about privacy, and they matter and they&#8217;re important, but what we&#8217;re going for is the billions of people that don&#8217;t know they need privacy but give it to them by default.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Midnight announced Thursday that its mainnet will go live in March as a partner chain to Cardano.<\/p>\n<p>Hoskinson then claimed the ethos of privacy is not as simplistic as the monero and zcash communities often allude to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What Monero and ZCash have been trying to convince people is it&#8217;s like a light switch. We&#8217;re private. The switch is on. Everybody else is not. The switch is off. That&#8217;s not how that works,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2026\/02\/12\/cardano-founder-charles-hoskinson-says-midnight-won-t-chase-monero-zcash-users\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says Midnight won&#8217;t chase Monero, ZCash users https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2026\/02\/12\/cardano-founder-charles-hoskinson-says-midnight-won-t-chase-monero-zcash-users Publish Date: 2026-02-12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/5171ad6d6b77486d9dc1a371a12802659fbd6ca6-6000x4000.jpg?auto=format&w=960&h=540&crop=focalpoint&fit=clip&q=75&fm=jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212695,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212693\/revisions\/212695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}