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But the things I mentioned aren't technical minutiae, they're real technological advances with real applications, today. > ...not related to finance. Why plac
by betwixthewires 5y ago
But the things I mentioned aren't technical minutiae, they're real technological advances with real applications, today.
> ...not related to finance.
Why place that arbitrary restriction? If all this stuff does is improve finance is that not enough? Again, I'm not a web3 evangelist, this stuff was originally created strictly to create financial tools. All I expect any of this stuff to do is change finance.
But still, the development of new cryptography, new consensus mechanisms, new routing protocols and network topologies, these are all advances that have come as a result of all this and they're not related to finance. Again, just because you don't know about an advancement doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
- grey-area 5y agoWhat new cryptography has been invented due to cryptocurrencies?
- betwixthewires 5y agoSeveral curves are being researched, non interactive ZKPs are getting heavy development and research due to their applicability here, interest in cryptographic accumulators is growing, people are finding novel ways to do old techniques, bulletproofs are an example, look at Mimblewimble, it's an interesting implementation of a blockchain using Schnorr signatures. That's just what I've got off the top of my head.
- grey-area 5y agoThanks.