Zero Knowledge
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
98 episodes of Zero Knowledge since the first episode, which aired on October 4th, 2017.
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Episode 83: From Warp Sync to SPREE with Polkadot's Rob Habermeier
June 26th, 2019 | 1 hr 8 mins
cryptography, engineering, ethereum, lightclients, parity technology, polkadot, warp sync
In this episode, Anna chats with Robert Habermeier, one of the co-founders of Polkadot and an engineer at Parity, about his early experience with Rust and cryptography, as well as the work he did at Parity on Warp Sync and Lightclients, how this helped inspire some of the development of the Polkadot architecture and some of the exciting technical concepts that he has discovered along the way.
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Episode 82: TEEs, SGX and the Graphene project
June 19th, 2019 | 54 mins 29 secs
blockchain, confidentiality, privacy, tee
In this week's episode we chat with the guys behind the Graphene project, Chia-Che Tsai of Texas A&M University and Golem developer Lukasz Glen, about Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX), and the way the Graphene project aims to make it easier for devs to interact with these hardware enclaves.
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Episode 81: P2P Messaging & Scuttlebutt with Dominic Tarr
June 12th, 2019 | 47 mins 34 secs
blockchain, dht, distributed hash table, dominic tarr, p2p messaging, privacy, scuttlebot, scuttlebutt, security, social network
In this week’s episode, we meet with Dominic Tarr, a protocol designer and security auditor who works on Scuttlebutt - a decentralized secure gossip platform. We discuss P2P messaging and the challenges of sending messages within a P2P network in a truly decentralised manner.
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Episode 80: On the Frontiers of Validation with Bison Trails
June 5th, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins
bison trails, blockchain infrastructure, blockchain validation, cosmos, delegators, polkadot, pos, proof-of-stake, tezos, validation, validators
In this week's episode, Anna sits down with Joe Lallouz and Aaron Henshaw from Bison Trails - a validator infrastructure company based in NYC. Recorded during the NYC blockchain week, we chatted about the latest PoS systems to launch, what it means to be a validator, how the incentive structures can impact the ecosystem development and potential futures for this uncharted validator landscape.
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Episode 79: Privacy & P4 with Liz and Chris from Least Authority
May 29th, 2019 | 1 hr 50 secs
blockchain, crypto, least authority, privacy, privacy protocol, private payments, zcash
In this week's episode, we sit down with Liz Steininger and Chris Wood from Least Authority to discuss the state of privacy today, the case for private crypto subscription payments and their P4 proposal. P4, or Private Periodic Payment Protocol, uses the shielded account feature of Zcash to provide a fully decentralised method for recurring end-to-end private cryptocurrency payments.
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Episode 78: Diving into Cosmos with Sunny
May 22nd, 2019 | 1 hr 7 mins
blockchain, blockchain at berkeley, blockchain validator, cosmos, cosmos protocol, pos, proof-of-stake
In this week's episode, Anna sits down with Sunny Aggarwal to talk about his journey into blockchain, the beginnings of Blockchain at Berkeley, how he discovered Cosmos, his role as a validator and as a podcast co-host.
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Episode 77: Funding Blockchain Development with Kevin Owocki
May 15th, 2019 | 1 hr 11 mins
blockchain, eip1337, ethereum, funding blockchain, gitcoin, grants, open source
In this week, we sit down with Kevin Owocki, co-founder of gitcoin, to have a look at how open source blockchain development is funded. We cover the different methods for funding open source work, what has worked in the past, what hasn’t, how funding blockchain projects can be quite different and what people are experimenting with today.
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Episode 76: Sean Bowe on SNARKs, Trusted Setups & Elliptic Curve Cryptography
May 8th, 2019 | 1 hr 31 mins
academia, cryptography, development, elliptic curve, sonics, trusted set up, zcash, zcash bug, zexe
In this week’s episode, we welcome special guest Sean Bowe. Sean is a Zcash Company engineer and the author of the Sprout and Sapling Zcash trusted set ups and much of the underlying cryptography of the protocol. We had a chance to chat about his history, what got him into the topic, some of the joys & challenges to working with SNARKs, and what ideas are inspiring him.
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Episode 75: Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson
May 1st, 2019 | 45 mins 12 secs
aztec protocol, blockchain, cryptography, ethereum, privacy tech, range proofs, zero knowledge proofs
In this week’s episode, we sit down with Zac Williamson of the Aztec protocol to discuss zero knowledge tools, range proofs, the Aztec Protocol, the different approaches to bringing privacy to Ethereum, and how standards in the space are emerging.
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Episode 74: Blockchain 101: Randomness and Random Beacons with Justin Drake
April 24th, 2019 | 57 mins 39 secs
blockchain, eth2.0, ethereum, randomness
In this week's episode, we sit down with Justin Drake to discuss randomness in blockchain, how it can be created and what adversarial models exist. We also discuss the random beacon and how that concept has evolved in the development of ETH2.0
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Episode 73: J. Ayo Akinyele Talks Lightning Network & Building Bolt
April 17th, 2019 | 57 mins 5 secs
blockchain, bolt, bolt protocol, lightning, privacy, privacy tech, zcash, zeroknowledge
In this week's episode, we chat with J. Ayo Akinyele from Bolt Labs about the Bolt Protocol, a layer 2 approach for anonymous micropayments. Bolt, which stands for Blind, Offchain, Lightweight, Transactions, is a privacy focused scaling solution that is similar to the Lightning Network.
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Episode 72: zkSNARKs for Scale with Matter Labs
April 10th, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
blockchain, franklin, matterlabs, roll-up, scaling, zero knowledge, zksnarks
In this week's episode, we sit down with the Alex Vlasov and Alex Gluchowski from Matter Labs to discuss their approach to using zkSNARKs for scaling Ethereum. We chat about the inspiration for the Roll-up project, the Matter Labs implementation, their proposed Franklin network and more.
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Episode 71: Getting Radicle with Julian Arni
April 3rd, 2019 | 59 mins 32 secs
blockchain, decentralised open source, decentralised system, github, open source software, oscoin, oss, rad, radicle
In this week's episode, we speak with Julian Arni about Radicle, a decentralized alternative to Github built on IPFS. Radicle is both a programming language and a set of tools to enable decentralised open source software development. We go deep into this project and also touch on the societal questions that inspired it.
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Episode 70: Digging into DAI with Rune Christensen from Maker
March 27th, 2019 | 1 hr 12 mins
blockchain, ethereum, makerdao, stablecoin
In this interview, we chat with Rune Christensen from MakerDAO about stablecoins, MakerDAO’s take on this concept, the peg and how this is maintained, security, oracles and more.
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Episode 69: Decentralised Storage with Arweave
March 20th, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins
archiving, blockchain, data storage, decentralized storage, permaweb, tech talk
In this week's episode, we sit down with Sam Williams of Arweave to chat about their novel approach to decentralised storage. We discuss incentivising data storage, the concept of the permaweb, and how to properly decentralise the internet archives.
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Episode 68: Conversations at EthCC
March 13th, 2019 | 1 hr 5 mins
blockchain, cat herders, community conference, decentralised governance, decision making, eth magicians, ethcc, ethereum, open source, technology
In this week's special episode, Anna pops over to EthCC - the Ethereum Community Conference - to find out what's on people's minds. Speaking with Boris Mann, Maria Paula Fernandez, Hudson Jameson, Sunny Aggarwal, Yalda Mousavinia, and Peter Mauric, these conversations centre around decision making in the decentralised space, the role of transparency, the different organisations and groups that have formed in Ethereum to help make decisions, how compensation can play a role, the code of conduct, the importance of signaling and much more.