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Zero Knowledge

Zero Knowledge Podcast

Zero Knowledge is a podcast which goes deep into the tech that will power the emerging decentralised web and the community building this. Covering the latest in zero knowledge research and applications, the open web as well as future technologies and paradigms that promise to change the way we interact — and transact — with one another online. Zero Knowledge is hosted by Anna Rose Follow the show at @ZeroKnowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) or @AnnaRRose (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose)

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Episode 84: Zcash community & more with Amber Baldet

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/07/03

In this episode, we sit down at the Zcon1 Conference (https://www.zfnd.org/zcon/) in Croatia with Amber Baldet, CEO and co-founder of Clovyr, former JPMorgan Blockchain Program Lead, and board member of the Zcash Foundation (https://www.zfnd.org/). We chat about about her road to the blockchain space, the problems she aims to solve with her work on Clovyr, some updates about the Zcash community & foundation, the state of zero knowledge research and the potential and challenges around the

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1:08:27

Episode 83: From Warp Sync to SPREE with Polkadot's...

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/06/26

In this episode, Anna chats with Robert Habermeier (https://twitter.com/rphmeier), one of the co-founders of Polkadot and an engineer at Parity Technology, about his early experience with Rust and cryptography, as well as the work he did at Parity on Warp Sync and Lightclients. We then discuss how this helped inspire some of the concepts and design of the Polkadot protocol. We also chat about some of the exciting concepts that he is discovering along the way - such as new architectures to promote

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54:29

Episode 82: TEEs, SGX and the Graphene project

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2019/06/19

In this week's episode we chat with two of the people behind the Graphene project (https://grapheneproject.io/), Chia-Che Tsai of Texas A&M University and Golem developer Lukasz Glen, about 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. Graphene (https://grapheneproject.io/) started as a research project at Stony Brook University, led by Chia-Che Tsai and Don Porter, about emerging

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Episode 81: P2P Messaging & Scuttlebutt with Dominic...

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2019/06/12

In this week’s episode, we meet with Dominic Tarr (https://dominictarr.com/), a protocol designer and security auditor at Least Authority (https://leastauthority.com/) who works on Scuttlebutt (https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/) - a decentralized secure gossip platform. We discuss P2P messaging and the challenges of sending messages within a p2p network in a truly decentralised manner. Here are some links we mention:

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1:03:08

Episode 80: On the Frontiers of Validation with Bison...

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2019/06/05

In this week's episode, Anna sits down with Joe Lallouz (https://twitter.com/JoeLallouz) and Aaron Henshaw (https://twitter.com/aaronhenshaw) from Bison Trails (https://bisontrails.co/) - 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. Thank you to

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1:00:50

Episode 79: Privacy & P4 with Liz and Chris from...

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/05/29

In this week's episode, we sit down with Liz Steininger (https://twitter.com/liz315) and Chris Wood from Least Authority (https://leastauthority.com/) to discuss the state of privacy today, the case for private crypto subscription payments and their P4 proposal. The Private Periodic Payment Protocol, P4, uses the shielded account feature of Zcash to provide a fully decentralised method for recurring end-to-end private cryptocurrency payments. Links mentioned: * Article about Tim Berners Lee wanting

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1:07:17

Episode 78: Diving into Cosmos with Sunny

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2019/05/22

In this week's episode, Anna sits down with Sunny Aggarwal (https://twitter.com/sunnya97) 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. We discuss: * Coursera course that Sunny mentions https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking * Blockchain at Berkeley https://blockchain.berkeley.edu/ * Cosmos https://cosmos.network/ * Sikka https://www.sikka.tech/ * Epicenter Podcast

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1:11:32

Episode 77: Funding Blockchain Development with Kevin...

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2019/05/15

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. We discuss: EIP1337 (https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/1337) Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure

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1:31:24

Episode 76: Sean Bowe on SNARKs, Trusted Setups &...

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/05/08

In this week’s episode, we welcome special guest Sean Bowe. Sean is an engineer at the Electric Coin Company (https://twitter.com/zcashco) 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. We also covered the story of Zcash and the Powers of Tau trusted set up, MPCs, the

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Episode 75: Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/05/01

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Zac Williamson (https://twitter.com/Zac_Aztec) of the Aztec Protocol (https://www.aztecprotocol.com/) 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. Check out Zac's talk at the ZK Summit for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIg2aJQqNNc&feature=youtu.be Here was our episode with Benedikt Bunz talking about Bulletproofs

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Episode 74: Blockchain 101: Randomness and Random...

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2019/04/24

In this week's episode, we sit down with Justin Drake (https://twitter.com/drakefjustin), researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, 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 Our initial definition of randomness in cryptography comes largely from this article by cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-production/ Check out Justin

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Episode 73: J. Ayo Akinyele Talks Lightning Network &...

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2019/04/17

In this week's episode, we invite J. Ayo Akinyele (https://twitter.com/ja_akinyele) to the podcast. Ayo is a co-Founder of Bolt Labs (https://github.com/boltlabs-inc) which will be focused on developing the Bolt Protocol (https://github.com/boltlabs-inc), a privacy preserving layer 2 approach for anonymous micropayments, which is similar to Lightning Network. Bolt, which stands for Blind, Offchain, Lightweight, Transactions, could be used for both scaling zcash or providing a scalable privacy

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Episode 72: zkSNARKs for Scale with Matter Labs

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2019/04/10

In this week's episode, we sit down with the Alex Vlasov and Alex Gluchowski (https://twitter.com/gluk64) from Matter Labs to discuss their approach to using zkSNARKs for scaling the transaction processing capacity of Ethereum. We chat about the inspiration for the Roll-up project, the Matter Labs implementation, their proposed Franklin network and more. To learn about the project check out: https://matter-labs.io/ and their github (https://github.com/matter-labs) If you want to find out more about

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Episode 71: Getting Radicle with Julian Arni

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2019/04/03

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, it's hope to impact open source development and also touch on the societal questions that inspired it. Here is a short tweet (https://twitter.com/lftherios/status/1108074801250385920) that summarizes it well. The project can be found on

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1:12:22

Episode 70: Digging into DAI with Rune Christensen...

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/03/27

In this interview, we chat with Rune Christensen from MakerDAO (https://twitter.com/MakerDAO) about stablecoins, MakerDAO’s take on this concept, the peg and how this is maintained, security, oracles and more. Here are a few of the terms that we discuss in the episode: * DAI: a crypto asset-backed token pegged to the USD — it is designed to maintain a stable value. * MKR: Valuebearing, tradeable token. As a governance token, MKR holders have the responsibility of making risk based decisions that

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1:03:10

Episode 69: Decentralised Storage with Arweave

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/03/20

In this week's episode, we sit down with Sam Williams (https://twitter.com/samecwilliams) of Arweave (https://www.arweave.org) 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. If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA Support our Gitcoin

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1:05:12

Episode 68: Conversations at EthCC

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/03/13

In this week's special episode, Anna pops over to EthCC (https://ethcc.io/) - the Ethereum Community Conference - to find out what's on people's minds. Speaking with Boris Mann (https://twitter.com/bmann), Maria Paula Fernandez (https://twitter.com/MPtherealMVP), Hudson Jameson (https://twitter.com/hudsonjameson), Sunny Aggarwal (https://twitter.com/sunnya97), Yalda Mousavinia (https://twitter.com/stellarmagnet), and Peter Mauric (https://twitter.com/PAMauric), these conversations centre around

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1:03:17

Episode 67: Formal Verification with Martin Lundfall

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/03/06

In this week's episode, we sit down with Martin Lundfall (https://twitter.com/martinlundfall) from Dapphub & MakerDAO to discuss formal verification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification) - a topic request that comes directly from the Zero Knowledge audience. We cover what formal verification is, where it makes sense, where it doesn't, the k-framework, how different this approach is to the "move fast and break things" approach, and much more. Here are some of articles and videos we

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1:05:47

Episode 66: ETH2.0 Update With Danny Ryan

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/02/27

In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik chat with Danny Ryan (https://twitter.com/dannyryan) from the Ethereum Foundation (https://www.ethereum.org/foundation) about the ETH2.0 project. We cover how ETH2.0 came to be, how it works, the new roadmap, and where the project is headed. Useful resources: Our last episode on ETH2.0 with Prysmatic Labs (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/37) ETH2.0 Specs (https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs) Ethresearch Forum (https://ethresear.ch/) Barry Whitehat's Rollup

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1:02:50

Episode 65: Bridges, xDai and Burner Wallets with...

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2019/02/20

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Igor Barinov (https://twitter.com/barinov) from POA Network and Austin Griffith (https://twitter.com/austingriffith) from Gitcoin Labs to discuss bridges, xDai - the new side-chain where DAI is the native token - and Austin's super simple Burner Wallet. Bridges are a wide topic and with this conversation we try to give some insight into what they are and how they work. We look at xDai as one concrete example of such a bridged side-chain and Austin talks about

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