Last week someone asked me, what is the difference between Midnight's privacy protection and VPN, and why should ordinary people care.
I was taken aback for a moment because this question is more fundamental than most technical discussions.
I gave him an analogy. A VPN puts a coat on your data; no one on the road knows what you're wearing, but when you reach your destination, you still have to take it off, and the other party can still see everything. Midnight's ZK proof is different—you don’t need to take off the coat; you just need to prove to the other party, "I am wearing compliant clothing underneath," and once the other party verifies, the interaction is complete, but no one ever sees exactly what you are wearing.
After hearing this, he said: then what use is this for ordinary people? Ordinary people don’t need to prove compliance to others.
This reaction struck me as interesting because it precisely pointed out the most real market education problem that $NIGHT is currently facing—its core users are not ordinary crypto users at all, but those institutions and developers caught between data protection and compliance verification. Just because ordinary people are unaware of this pain point does not mean it doesn't exist; it just means it is still in the B-end and has not yet penetrated the C-end.
This is a double-edged sword for @MidnightNetwork . B-end market purchasing decisions are slow, but once they come in, there is real and stable demand for use that won't disappear because of fluctuations in market sentiment. The C-end market comes quickly but cannot be retained; once an event ends, it disappears.
What I am focusing on now is whether the B-end has truly landed, not how lively the C-end is. I have seen too much liveliness; what is valuable is the quiet run.
#night $NIGHT @MidnightNetwork
I was taken aback for a moment because this question is more fundamental than most technical discussions.
I gave him an analogy. A VPN puts a coat on your data; no one on the road knows what you're wearing, but when you reach your destination, you still have to take it off, and the other party can still see everything. Midnight's ZK proof is different—you don’t need to take off the coat; you just need to prove to the other party, "I am wearing compliant clothing underneath," and once the other party verifies, the interaction is complete, but no one ever sees exactly what you are wearing.
After hearing this, he said: then what use is this for ordinary people? Ordinary people don’t need to prove compliance to others.
This reaction struck me as interesting because it precisely pointed out the most real market education problem that $NIGHT is currently facing—its core users are not ordinary crypto users at all, but those institutions and developers caught between data protection and compliance verification. Just because ordinary people are unaware of this pain point does not mean it doesn't exist; it just means it is still in the B-end and has not yet penetrated the C-end.
This is a double-edged sword for @MidnightNetwork . B-end market purchasing decisions are slow, but once they come in, there is real and stable demand for use that won't disappear because of fluctuations in market sentiment. The C-end market comes quickly but cannot be retained; once an event ends, it disappears.
What I am focusing on now is whether the B-end has truly landed, not how lively the C-end is. I have seen too much liveliness; what is valuable is the quiet run.
#night $NIGHT @MidnightNetwork