Horizen Statement on Mining Algorithm
Channel: Horizen
Date: 29/08/2018

The Horizen (ZEN) team carefully evaluated the pros and cons of changing from the existing Equihash Proof of Work mining algorithm. 
The major concern of the team, as well as much of the Horizen community, was maintaining the security of the project. 
Horizen is a project that is sensitive to the concerns and desires of the community and worked to determine if there was a clear desire to change the mining algorithm. It was difficult to determine, but what was clear was that people did not want further 51% attacks. 

Read our full statement here:  https://blog.zencash.com/horizen-statemen…mining-algorithm/ ‎