Zero Knowledge
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
80 episodes of Zero Knowledge since the first episode, which aired on October 4th, 2017.
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Episode 65: Bridges, xDai and Burner Wallets with Igor & Austin
February 20th, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
bridges, dai, side-chains, stablecoins, ux
In this week’s episode, we sit down with Igor Barinov from POA Network and Austin Griffith from Gitcoin Labs to discuss bridges, xDai - the new side-chain where DAI is the native token - and Austin's super simple Burner Wallet.
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Episode 64: Unleashing Melon into the wild with Jenna Zenk
February 13th, 2019 | 58 mins 30 secs
asset management, blockchain, ethereum, governance, m1, melonport, oracles, protocol, smart contracts
In this week’s episode, Anna sits down with Jenna Zenk from Melonport to discuss her background, the path to the melon protocol, the challenges of building sophisticated smart contracts and what it means to release a decentralised protocol into the wild.
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Episode 63: Proxy re-encryption and FHE with NuCypher
February 6th, 2019 | 59 mins 51 secs
blockchain, encryption, fhe, nucypher, private key, technology
In this episode, we sit down with Bogdan Opanchuk and John "Tux" Pacific from NuCypher to chat about their threshold proxy re-encryption technology, how the project aims to provide privacy infrastructure, dig into their nuFHE scheme and explore far along FHE research, the cryptographic "holy grail", really is.
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Episode 62: The path to an ERC standard
January 30th, 2019 | 55 mins 30 secs
blockchain, erc20, erc721, erc998, ethereum, tokens
In this episode, we discuss tokens, token standards and the ERC process. We cover some of the most popular token standards and discuss what it takes to design a standard and get this accepted. We also have a chat with Matt Lockyer about his experience submitting ERC998.
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Episode 61: Statistical modeling of PoS systems with Tarun Chitra
January 23rd, 2019 | 59 mins 13 secs
asics, blockchain, code, developer, pos, pow, proof-of-stake, proof-of-work, statistical model, technology
In this episode, we chat with Tarun Chitra about a broad range on topics, from his work on early non-blockchain ASICs, to financial models in high frequency trading, and the nuances of statistical modeling of PoS systems in blockchain.
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Episode 60: Cryptography 101: Multi-Party Computations
January 16th, 2019 | 37 mins 7 secs
blockchain, cryptography, fully homomorphic encryption, mpcs, multi party computation, polynomials, shamir's secret sharing, tech education, zksnarks
In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik give a general introduction to MPCs, go over a few examples of MPCs in action, compare them with other cryptographic concepts, try to pronounce "fully homomorphic encryption" properly, and more!
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Episode 59: STARKs & StarkWare with Eli and Alessandro
January 9th, 2019 | 1 hr 6 mins
blockchain, eli ben-sasson, ethereum, starkware, zero knowledge, zero knowledge proofs, zksnarks, zkstarks
In this week's episode, we catch up with Eli Ben-Sasson and Alessandro Chiesa from StarkWare Industries. We talk about their longstanding academic work in theoretic & applied cryptography, how StarkWare came to be, the emergence of SNARKs and STARKs, some of the differences between these different zero knowledge systems and what's coming next in the space.
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Episode 58: Kicking off 2019 with Jutta Steiner
January 2nd, 2019 | 39 mins 13 secs
blockchain, ethereum, new years, parity, parity tech
In this week's episode, we sit down with Jutta Steiner, our friend and Fredrik's CEO at Parity Technologies, to talk about her history in the space, the origin of Parity, the last year in blockchain, and what we see coming in 2019!
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Episode 57: Merklize this! Merkle Trees & Patricia Tries
December 26th, 2018 | 45 mins 44 secs
blockchain, blockchain 101, data structures, developers, merkle trees, tech education
In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik dig into the topic of Merkle trees. We discuss the history of the concept, explore different kinds of Merkle trees, and touch on Radix trees & Patricia Merkle tries. We also look a bit at their usage in both Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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Episode 56: Get to know a Core Dev: Martin Holst Swende
December 19th, 2018 | 37 mins 10 secs
blockchain, core dev, developer, ethereum, programming, tech
In this episode, Fredrik sits down Martin, who is a Core Dev working on the Geth client and head of security for the Ethereum foundation. They chat about what got him into the space, his interest in security, and what he would recommend to other devs looking to get into the space.
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Episode 55: ETHSingapore in review
December 12th, 2018 | 49 mins 21 secs
ethereum, ethsingapore, hackathon, hackers, tech education
In this week's episode, Anna interviews a number of participants at the ETHSingapore hackathon as part of the ETHGlobal series and tries to get a sense for how these hackers are approaching the space.
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Episode 54: Digging into recursive zkSNARKs with Coda
December 5th, 2018 | 52 mins 10 secs
blockchain, coda, cryptography, recursive proof, tech education, zksnarks
In this week's episode, we sit down with Izaak Meckler & Evan Shapiro from O(1) Labs to discuss Coda, a blockchain using recursive composition of zkSNARKs to eliminate history. We discuss recursive zkSNARKs generally, what a recursive zkSNARK construction blockchain would look like, and the challenges in implementing this sophisticated scaling solution.
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Episode 53: Get to know a Core Dev: Péter Szilágyi
November 28th, 2018 | 46 mins 30 secs
core-dev, developer-interview, ethereum
In this week's episode, Fredrik sits down with Péter Szilágyi, lead developer of go-ethereum, to talk about his background, what it means to be a Core Dev and some of the struggles of maintaining an open source project.
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Episode 52: Vlad and Gav go head-to-head on blockchain governance
November 21st, 2018 | 1 hr 12 mins
blockchain, gavin wood, governance, on-chain governance, tech talk, vlad zamfir
In this week's episode, we are joined by a couple greats in the space, Gavin Wood and Vlad Zamfir, to debate the merits of on-chain vs off-chain governance.
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Episode 51: Exploring Spacemesh with Julian Loss
November 14th, 2018 | 51 mins 28 secs
blockchain, proof-of-spacetime, protocol, spacemesh, tech education
In this episode, we sit down with Julian Loss, a researcher at Spacemesh, to explore DAGs, the Proof-of-Spacetime idea and the Spacemesh project.
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Episode 50: Zooko talks Zcash on our 50th episode
November 7th, 2018 | 1 hr 27 mins
blockchain, cryptography, tech history, zcash, zcash parity, zero knowledge, zksnarks
In this special 50th episode, we invite our friend Zooko to the podcast to chat about his background and explore the history of Zerocoin and Zcash. We dig into the inner workings of Zcash, the trusted setup, the sapling upgrade, and what the future of the project might look like!