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I found it funny that Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn who started the ZCash project, and has a background in cryptography and security, publicly admitted to not understand
by noddy1 9y ago
I found it funny that Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn who started the ZCash project, and has a background in cryptography and security, publicly admitted to not understanding how Zk-SNARK works. I once spent a long evening trying to understand it.. involving lots of analogies about ali baba going into caves.. but still no idea.
- hackerboos 9y agoThere's also the famous tweet were Zooko said he'd consider bypassing anonymity of ZCash in order to help authorities catch the WannaCry hackers [0] [lol j/k] I like ZCash but I think Z-transactions (anonymous) should be the default as there has been advances in the performance and memory requirements [1] [0] - https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863202798883577856 https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863202798883577856 [lol j/k] - https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863543600663101440 https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863543600663101440 [1] - https://twitter.com/ebfull/status/907997752709091329 https://twitter.com/ebfull/status/907997752709091329
- everdev 9y agoAnd "Zcash partners with JP Morgan" doesn't exactly scream anonymity to me. https://www.coindesk.com/jpmorgan-partners-zcash-team-add-enterprise-security/ https://www.coindesk.com/jpmorgan-partners-zcash-team-add-en...
- whytaka 9y agoI found this article to about Zero-Knowledge proofs to be very helpful. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-knowledge-proofs-illustrated-primer/ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-kno...
- azna 9y agoThere's plenty of information here: https://z.cash/technology/zksnarks.html https://z.cash/technology/zksnarks.html