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Zero Knowledge
- am33 5y agowow surprised your submissions here werent beloved
- girriPal 5y agoThis was a great read. What are some other interesting links on Zero Knowledge?
- atweiden 5y agoIn the context of blockchain scalability, IIUC off-chain verifiers only periodically settle on-chain. How much damage can a malicious verifier do?
- hanniabu 5y agoThat depends on the implementation, some verify and settle every block.
- girriPal 5y agoFor those more technically inclined: Zero Knowledge Proof (with Avi Wigderson) - Numberphile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovdoxnfFVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovdoxnfFVc
- umbrellaguy 5y agoGreat video. Thanks for sharing.
- platz 5y ago> In the real-world, we obviously wouldn’t be able to manually mark the papers, they would automatically be marked based on actual data marked automatically by who, and why is outsourcing the information to an 'automatic' third-party a "proof"? Why should that third-party be trusted?
- mcdee 5y agoIn this case the third party could be the employer that pays the salary, or the bank that receives it. The decision to trust the issuer or not is down to the entity viewing the information, and depends on the particular requirements of the situation. A zero-knowledge proof that I am over 25 issued by my local library may be enough for the local theatre to let me in to watch a suitably rated movie, but not for the local bar to let me purchase liquor (in the latter case a proof directly from a government entity would be more appropriate).
- platz 5y agoThis is a different definition of proof that what I'm used to
- altdataseller 5y agoPacky is gaming Hacker news. Telling his friends to upvote this. He’s a sly marketer.
- hanniabu 5y agoNot sure if that's true or not but it's a solid article and would recommend regardless
- yellow_lead 5y agohttps://twitter.com/packyM/status/1410004843851309058?s=19 https://twitter.com/packyM/status/1410004843851309058?s=19
- besnn00 5y agoWouldn’t say solid as it was a bit laymanish
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- packym 5y agoMy bad, was excited to be on front page. Not trying to be sly.
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- hanniabu 5y agoThank you blockchain for funding its advancement
- tidydata 5y agoYikes, was looking to read something a bit more technical but the writing felt tacky and amateurish. Reminds me a lot of what LinkedIn is like.
- yellow_lead 5y agoBecause it's written by someone who (as they admit) first learned about it recently from a tweet. It appeals to laymen very well, but conflates "Zero knowledge" and "Zero knowledge proofs" throughout the article. Not sure if that's intentional or not. Edit: Learned it was important from a recent tweet*. it seems the author may have already known what they are.
- packym 5y agono worse insult than LinkedIn-like :(
- mt_ 5y agoIs this the ponzi of the week?
- Passthepeas 5y agoMonero is referred to as a zkp coin in this article; but afaik it is cryptonote based, using a combination of mixing and stealth-addresses and doesn't actually use zero-knowledge proofs. Did that change at some point or was this said in error? I think this is still a fantastic article as an introduction to the concept, I hope it is not removed.