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1/5 The next Renaissance is here. An era when code, culture and capital combine to unleash unprecedented adoption.

Join us tomorrow for a talk by Ariel Gabizon (Aztec)! 🪧Title: Revisiting the IPA-sumcheck connection 📅When: 1pm ET, Sep 10 📷Livestream: sites.google.com/view/yacl/semi…

If you missed today's great talk by Ariel Gabizon (Aztec), be sure to check out the recording! youtu.be/SPjMJ8kfRSU

I've spent three years studying Polish and one hour studying Spanish. My Spanish is better.

(Contrarian?) opinion: There is currently an overestimation of the power of AI, because it is serving us hard-earned human knowledge developed over many years from websites like stackoverflow; and we are overattributing the part that comes from the LLM. We will see diminishing

Is this paper legit? Will it get the 1M prize from EF? eprint.iacr.org/2025/1712.pdf

I went on the zk podcast to discuss my new work on anonymous reputation (zk-promises) and my 2022 zk-creds paper, which laid out a path for zk-identity where most projects are still on step one. We ended up on the history of zk+blockchains, starting where it all began: Zcash

A lot of spicy insider details from early zk days in this one.

Don’t forget you can use ZKPassport⁩ to get a massive ⁦Devconnect ARG - the first Ethereum World’s Fair⁩ ticket discount if you’re from LATAM! ZK proof is generated privately on your phone, and the only thing revealed is your nationality

$XAN is live.

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This video made me search for Satoshi's post on zk proofs from 2010. It's interesting to see the historical development of thought. When the idea of zk proofs comes ups Satoshi says it's hard to think how a zk proof could show that a spend *doesn't* exist. I.e., beyond the lack

D-Wave CEO claims quantum annealing is already commercially useful today for optimization problems...does anyone know if this is valid? youtube.com/watch?v=zusNzl…

My conversation with Zcash’s 1000x engineers - Sean Bowe (Sean Bowe) and Jack Grigg aka Str4d. 0:00 - Project Tachyon 10:20 - Privacy can’t be an afterthought for a protocol 15:24 - Encrypted Bitcoin 22:11 - Soundness bug in original sprout pool 30:15 - Sapling 33:00 - A decade of

These proving scheme names are getting out of hand