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by mhluongo 9y ago
I addressed this in the post > In our example, knowledge can’t be directly revealed, because we don’t have an easy way to “serialize” and share human knowledge, like having met your mother — just the loose approximations of verbal and vi
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Agreed, and I tried to strike a balance. Going more technical put off certain reviewers, and going less put off others. In the cryptocurrency space in particular, this is an interesting topic that devs and users are hesitant to even discuss
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Note the verifier doesn't need to share the outcome with the prover- that does, indeed, open certain problems up to enumeration. In schemes that rely on computational assumptions (eg, hashing & signing with a nonce) I don't th
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Well said.
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Hey, author here! Sorry it didn't gel with you, but I'm happy to defend this example. A zero-knowledge proof is about a prover convincing a verifier they have some knowledge, without sharing the knowledge. In the case, the prover
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by mhluongo 9y ago
If anyone is looking for an overview of SNARKs and what this means for Ethereum, I wrote it up for a series I'm doing on privacy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15302841
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Just wrote a blog post about this. You can use SNARKs verification for data privacy https://medium.com/@mhluongo/zero-knowledge-proofs-zcash-and...
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Zero-knowledge proofs, Zcash, and Ethereum(medium.com)
141 points by mhluongo 9y ago|47 comments
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by mhluongo 9y ago
... and maybe which are science, as well :)
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by mhluongo 9y ago
That's not what a 10X multiple implies
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by mhluongo 9y ago
And you can use another card game. Get over it, as long as it's disclosed everyone involved are consenting.
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Bitcoin, sure. Many are resistant and are still mined with GPUs though.
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by mhluongo 9y ago
s/employer/employee/
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by mhluongo 9y ago
This just in, banker calls competitor a fraud. No reason to question this. Loved his past employer's take. https://twitter.com/agurevich23/status/907692985424371712
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Mixers and ring signatures(medium.com)
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who's thought about this :)
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by mhluongo 9y ago
If they did a token sale and already have $77M from it in the bank... there will be very little need for a moat. Many of these teams are out to get a quick buck with little accountability.
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Sounds like the company did a token sale for $77M based on his work. So, no- he's not overvaluing his contribution.
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Why do you say that? There are good reasons to want liquidity for utility tokens
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Local HD is sold out of standalone A/C units...
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by mhluongo 9y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE & REMOTE Fold is a cryptocurrency payments company backed by a number of well-known investors in the space. We're expanding into new currencies (Dash, Monero, Zcash) and launching a new p
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Fold | Engineering, Smart Contracts | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE & REMOTE | Full-time & Contract Fold let's you spend bitcoin in the real world, saving consumers up to 20% at Starbucks, Target, Best Buy, Dunkin Donuts and more when
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Well, the funders can sell the tokens immediately if they're unhappy with the team's progress. Try that on Kickstarter or your favorite JOBS act crowdfunding service.
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by mhluongo 9y ago
The second bit clearly depends on the person / company, but the first is a gem. This last year, I've been automating myself out of the company. It's hugely liberating, better for investors and employees, and means I can spend
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by mhluongo 9y ago
The crypto space is rife with inside jobs, but I think most of the ICO hacks are real. There's not a strong incentive to run an ICO hack when you'd otherwise just get the money without much accountability.
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Some of us still do in Clojure land for run-time debugging, though skipping the crazy state mutation stuff I've seen in eg CL.
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by mhluongo 9y ago
I like a good interpreted language as much as the next guy, but there are REPLs for compiled languages. Pretty sure Scala has one and maybe Haskell
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by mhluongo 9y ago
Long story, and it very much depends on the brand. Re: cashing out, we do both transfers and resale, depending on the user risk profile.
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by mhluongo 9y ago
I do it for a living.
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by mhluongo 9y ago
If Bitcoin can do it in 10 minutes globally, we can do it faster in a centralized system. Edit: ... Not to mention many other developed nations' banking systems. Edit: Not sure about the downvotes, but really- please don't pretend

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