Zero Knowledge
Where we talk about zero knowledge research and the decentralised web
We found 10 episodes of Zero Knowledge with the tag “technology”.
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Episode 141: ZK & Games: Dark Forest with Brian Gu
August 5th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
3 body problem, blockchain, blockchain game, ethereum, learning group, privacy, technology, video game, zero knowledge, zksnarks
In this week's episode, we chat with Brian Gu, a student at MIT and creator of the Dark Forest game. We chat about education in the space, blockchain based games and how Dark Forest was inspired. We then dig into how this game creates an incomplete information game space by using zkSNARKs to create a “cryptographic fog of war” and more!
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Episode 137: Trusted Setup Bonus: Tornado Cash
July 8th, 2020 | 29 mins 2 secs
blockchain, learning group, powers of tau, privacy, snarks, technology, trusted setup, zero knowledge
In this week's episode, Anna follows up on the trusted setup survey she did in her previous episode on the topic with this bonus interview with Tornado Cash. Tornado Cash's trusted setup, held in May 2020, was the largest to date with over 1000 participants.
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Episode 124: Exploring FHE with Flavio Bergamaschi from IBM Research
April 8th, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
cryptography, fhe, homomorphic encryption, ibm research, mpc, technology, zero knowledge
In this episode, we chat with Flavio Bergamaschi from IBM research about his work on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). FHE allows for computation on encrypted data. First developed in 2009 at IBM, this tech has long been the considered only theoretically possible. However, as we learn in the interview, there have been strides made in the last few years and we are starting to see FHE technology being used in some real world applications.
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Episode 111: Mixers with Tornado.cash
January 8th, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
blockchain, cryptocurrency, ethereum, mixer, privacy, technology
In this week’s episode, we chat with Roman Storm and Roman Semanov from Tornado.cash all about mixers. We explore what they are used for and how they work, how Zero Knowledge can be incorporated to provide more privacy, what the challenges are and what the future holds for the Tornado.Cash project.
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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.
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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 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 24: Blockchain UX and the UXUnConf
May 11th, 2018 | 46 mins 58 secs
blockchain, conference, edcon, technology, ux
In this special episode, we share short interviews about the state of UX in the blockchain space. These were recorded with the participants of the Web3 UX Unconference in Toronto earlier this week.
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Episode 11: Pragma's new tools and staying agile in blockchain
February 8th, 2018 | 46 mins 7 secs
agile, blockchain, coding, decentralised, development, pragma, smartcontracts, technology
In the episode, we sit down with John Palmer and Marcus Molchany to discuss their new project Pragma, a tool designed to make deploying smart contracts easier.
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Episode 10: Blockchain, Open-Source & Security
February 1st, 2018 | 43 mins 50 secs
blockchain, community, crypto, decentralised, developers, github, opensource, technology
In this episode, we will be talking with Liz Steininger, the CEO and MD of Least Authority, about decentralised communities, the challenges of blockchain open source technology and how we will likely see this community developing over the next few years.