You might want to check out the report below. It should be a good explainer for importance of zero knowledge in context of blockchain (a bit more in context of

You might want to check out the report below. It should be a good explainer for importance of zero knowledge in context of blockchain (a bit more in context of scaling than privacy, but the fundamentals are the same). Our three cents to help explain why it is important. [1] https://ethworks.io/assets/download/zero-knowledge-blockchain-scaling-ethworks.pdf https://ethworks.io/assets/download/zero-knowledge-blockchai...