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A lot of (manual) work went into making this simple demo happen. These are some interesting reflections on the present state of the tech by Gregory Maxwell: h

by Rauchg 11y ago

A lot of (manual) work went into making this simple demo happen. These are some interesting reflections on the present state of the tech by Gregory Maxwell: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/47rk85/first_successful_zeroknowledge_contingent_payment/d0f69ml https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/47rk85/first_succe... I suspect there's a great opportunity here for startups. The theory is sound, and tooling (UX) needs to be built around it.

ewillbefull 11y ago
I think the tooling will improve significantly this year and you should see people able to build protocols with zkSNARKs soon -- without spending days figuring out how everything works. Ahmed Kosba has been working on jSnark (https://github.com/akosba/jsnark https://github.com/akosba/jsnark). I'm building something in Rust called bellman (https://github.com/ebfull/bellman https://github.com/ebfull/bellman) which should make it easier to construct circuits safely and build these proofs easier, but it's in its early stages.
- mkramlich 11y ago
  plus Zooko's team has started building as well