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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 53: Get to know a Core Dev: Péter Szilágyi

Zero Knowledge ·

2018/11/28

In this episode Fredrik sits down with Péter Szilágyi (https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi), lead developer of go-ethereum (https://github.com/ethereum/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. Special thanks to the sponsor of this episode Trail of Bits (https://www.trailofbits.com/). If you're interested in hardware wallet security, check out their article 10 Rules for the Secure Use of Cryptocurrency

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Episode 52: Vlad and Gav go head-to-head on...

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2018/11/21

In this week's episode, we are joined by a couple greats in the space, Gavin Wood (https://twitter.com/gavofyork) and Vlad Zamfir (https://twitter.com/VladZamfir), to debate the merits of on-chain vs off-chain governance. If you want more, catch their governance panel at Web3Summit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO3fG_1YrE4) (which happened right before our interview). Thanks to our sponsor Trail of Bits - find out more about their upcoming event on their blog: https://blog.trailofbits.com/ And

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51:28

Episode 51: Exploring Spacemesh with Julian Loss

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2018/11/14

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. Links: * Spacemesh on twitter (https://twitter.com/teamspacemesh) * SoK: A Consensus Taxonomy in the Blockchain Era (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/754.pdf) Thanks to our Sponsor POA Network! Check out their blog (https://medium.com/poa-network)to find out more about their new blockchain consensus protocol, HoneyBadger BFT

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Episode 50: Zooko talks Zcash on our 50th episode

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2018/11/07

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! The Sapling upgrade promises to reduce the proving times of the zk-SNARKs from 37 seconds to 2.3 seconds by replacing the SHA256 hash function with an improved performance Pedersen hash function called Bowe-Hopwood

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Episode 49: Blockchain 101: Cryptoeconomic Primitives...

Zero Knowledge ·

2018/10/31

In this Blockchain 101 episode, we sit down with Axel Ericsson of Vest (previously 1Protocol) to talk about Cryptoeconomic Primitives, incentive models, designing smart equilibria, and staking. Links: Game Theory Game (https://ncase.me/trust/) Vest on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vest) Axel on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ericsson_axel) Vest Website (https://vest.com/)

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Episode 48: Talking UX with Taylor Monahan of MyCrypto

Zero Knowledge ·

2018/10/23

In this episode, we sit down with Taylor Monahan of MyCrypto, to discuss how the project got started and share some customer support horror stories. We also reflect on the challenge of building UX that works for people while maintaining the spirit of decentralization, and finally, where she sees the space developing. Links: * Taylor on Twitter (https://twitter.com/tayvano_) * MyCrypto (https://mycrypto.com) * Solidity Honeypots

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Episode 47: Chat with Richard Craib from Numerai

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2018/10/17

In this episode, we sit down with Richard Craib from Numerai to talk about crowdsourcing the role of a quant, how Numerai developed and where it is going, Dapp adoption in Ethereum and what it's like to build a hedge fund fulled by a crypto token. He also shares the new project Erasure - a decentralized data marketplace for financial predictions. Follow Richard on Twitter (https://twitter.com/richardcraib) Learn more about Numerai (https://numer.ai/)

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Episode 46: Gavin Wood on Polkadot, Sharding and...

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2018/10/10

We finally sit down with Gavin to go through a bit of what Parity has been working on with Polkadot and Substrate. We talk about Polkadot early history and who was involved and where the idea spawned, up to coding practices and where Substrate became a thing. If you want to know more, links below. Meta-link of Polkadot Resources (https://github.com/w3f/Web3-wiki/wiki/Polkadot) Substrate In A Nutshell (https://www.parity.io/substrate-in-a-nutshell/) Vitalik Tweet-storm about Sharding History

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Episode 45: P2P messaging with Henri from Streamr

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2018/10/03

In this week's episode, we sit down with Henri Pihkala (https://twitter.com/henripihkala) from Streamr (https://www.streamr.com/) to talk p2p messaging and what it means. We cover topics like pubsub, compare it to whisper, talk about the needs of different messaging systems as well as dig into why one would want to decentralize something like this. Finally we take a look at the data marketplace idea that streamr is trying out and what potential use-cases that could have.

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Episode 44: Blockchain 101: Transaction lifecycle &...

Zero Knowledge ·

2018/09/26

In this episode, we are joined by Tomasz Drwięga (https://twitter.com/tomusdrw), a Core Developer at Parity Technologies, to discuss the lifecycle of a transaction on the Ethereum network and how the mempool works. We will be covering the following topics: * What a mempool/transaction queue/transaction pool is. * How a transaction reaches a mempool and what the mempool does with it. * Looking at what causes the CPU increase and delays in the network. * What happens when a transaction gets

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Episode 43: Hudson Jameson talks EIPs and Ethereum...

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2018/09/19

In this episode, we chat with Hudson Jameson of the Ethereum Foundation about how he got involved in the space, the EIP process, and the challenges of decision making in the decentralised space. In decentralised communities, decision making and information gathering can be a uniquely difficult endeavor. Using some of the ideas from other open source communities as well as some new concepts emerging specifically for decentralised spaces, the Ethereum core devs are developing new tools to make these

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Episode 42: ETHPrize & Open Source Block Explorers

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2018/09/12

In this episode, we sit down with Mitch Kosowski, director of product at ETHPrize and Andrew Cravenho, project leader at POA Network. We cover ETHPrize's inception and activity, the way that pain points in the community are identified, and the open source block explorer project that POA Network is building with an ETHPrize bounty. ETHPrize developed out of a series of interviews with devs in the community. Unlike traditional grants, ETHPrize aims to use bounties, sub-communities and working groups

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Episode 41: Zokrates with Jacob Eberhardt

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2018/09/05

In this episode, we had a chance to speak with Jacob Eberhardt about his work on Zokrates and the Zero Knowledge Proof Toolkit. Zokrates is a programming language & toolbox for zkSNARKS on Ethereum Note: this is a relatively advanced episode as part of our Zero Knowledge Series. For more on the Zokrates project, please explore the following material: * Zokrates Github - https://github.com/JacobEberhardt/ZoKrates * Devcon Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSlrywb5J0 * Berlin Ethereum

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Episode 40: Benedikt Bünz on Bulletproofs and...

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2018/08/29

In this episode, we speak to Benedikt Bünz (https://crypto.stanford.edu/~buenz/), the author of Bulletproofs (https://crypto.stanford.edu/bulletproofs/), about this novel zero knowledge proof system as well as about Verifiable Delay Functions (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/601.pdf). This is part of our Zero Knowledge Series, where we explore some of the new research in the space of Zero Knowledge research and the emerging concepts. Follow Bulletproof development & Benedikt on twitter

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Episode 39: Matthew Di Ferrante on the security of...

Zero Knowledge ·

2018/08/22

In this episode, we speak with Matthew Di Ferrante of the smart contract auditing firm Zero Knowledge Labs (http://zklabs.io/) about security in the blockchain. Specifically we discuss how he first got interested in security and blockchain technology, some of the cases that have happened in the last few years and how the Ethereum security team responds to a security event. If you want to learn more from Matt you can follow him here (https://twitter.com/matthewdif) This week's episode went long, so

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Episode 38: Intro to zkSNARKs with Howard Wu

Zero Knowledge ·

2018/08/15

In this episode, we sit down with Howard Wu to explore zkSNARKs, the challenges in the application of this awesome technology, the new ideas emerging for how to scale them and his latest work on DIZK. This is the 2nd in our ongoing series about Zero Knowledge technologies. To get a good sense of Zero Knowledge Proofs, please listen to our introduction to the topic in Episode 21 (http://www.zeroknowledge.fm/21). Howard Wu is an early member of Blockchain at Berkeley

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Episode 37: Sharding Update With Prysmatic Labs

Zero Knowledge ·

2018/08/08

In this episode, we sit down with Raul (https://twitter.com/raulitojordan) & Preston (https://twitter.com/preston_vanloon) from Prysmatic Labs to discuss sharding, the evolution of the spec, Ethereum 2.0, what happens to a side chain during a hard fork, and whats coming up for this important scaling solution. Prysmatic Labs (https://prysmaticlabs.com/) is building a sharding solution in Go and the Ethereum 2.0 side chain that is set to combine PoS + Sharding. Links: *

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Episode 36: Eric Tang of Livepeer talks off-chain...

Zero Knowledge ·

2018/08/01

In this episode, we speak with Eric Tang from Livepeer about the need for off-chain computation, what scenarios make sense for off-chain and which can work on-chain, how Livepeer sees its role in the ecosystem and how they aim to help more people livestream in a decentralised way. Read more about Livepeer here (https://livepeer.org/) If you want to get involved with the project, you can do so here (https://medium.com/livepeer-blog/livepeer-for-beginners-3b49945c24a7) Check out this paper by Jacob

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Episode 35: Testnets with Ethan from Tendermint

Zero Knowledge ·

2018/07/25

In this episode, we sit down with Ethan (Bucky) Buchman, co-founder & CTO of Tendermint, to talk about testnets. We look into what they are, what purpose they serve and cover examples from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos and Polkadot. Links * Testnets on Karl.tech (https://karl.tech/intro-guide-to-ethereum-testnets/) * The latest gossip on BFT consensus (https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04938) * Bitcoin Testnet (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet) * Ropsten Testnet (https://github.com/ethereum/ropsten) * Kovan

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Episode 34: Blockchain 101: What are smart contracts?

Zero Knowledge ·

2018/07/18

In this episode, we dig into what the term smart contract means with our guest James Prestwich. First introduced in 1994 by Nick Szabo, smart contracts have inspired whole ecosystems of companies and projects to start thinking about blockchain in much bigger terms. We explore what the term 'smart contract' means, where it comes from, some use cases and some of the new challenges that come along with it. Follow James on twitter @_prestwich (https://twitter.com/_prestwich)

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