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Zcash is perhaps the most influential project in the cryptocurrency space, as it produces extremely useful research in the field Zero Knowledge proofs. Electric Coin Company CEO Josh Swihart & Zcash Core dev Kris Nuttycombe explain why Zcash us great.

Paul Brigner of the Electric Coin Company comes on the podcast to talk about his history in crypto, policy issues in blockchain and privacy tech, and Zcash's partnership roadmap into the future. Buy crypto from ATMs: https://coinatmradar.com/ Donate crypto! https://plisio.net/donate/wZs-Zxrg Buy subscriber NFTs! https://descentr.net/nft/ Start living on crypto: https://descentr.net/crypto Crypto services directory: https://descentr.net/crypto-services Music from https://www.zapsplat.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/support

Josh Swihart, incoming new CEO of the Electric Coin Company, talks Zcash's new era after legendary founder and previous CEO Zooko Wilcox's departure. Buy crypto from ATMs: https://coinatmradar.com/ Donate crypto! https://plisio.net/donate/wZs-Zxrg Buy subscriber NFTs! https://descentr.net/nft/ Start living on crypto: https://descentr.net/crypto Crypto services directory: https://descentr.net/crypto-services Music from https://www.zapsplat.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/support

Zooko Wilcox comes on the Zcash Podcast to talk about the Electric Coin Company's restructuring, the resolution of the spam attack, the upcoming block reward reallocation, and much more. Buy subscriber NFTs! https://descentr.net/nft/ Start living on crypto: https://descentr.net/crypto Crypto services directory: https://descentr.net/crypto-services Music from https://www.zapsplat.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/support

How can #shieldedtransactions/#privacy-protecting initiatives change the way we interact in society? What can we do to safeguard our identities in the future of this #crypto economy? Are there certain utopias and dystopias to embrace or to avoid?Zaki Manian wears many hats in the blockspace. He is currently a cofounder of the iqlusion. They are working Armistice, an open source hardware security solution. Iqlusion advises, and supports a number of blockchain projects. He is also an advisor to the Electric Coin Company. He taught himself after college software engineering, programming and computer science. From 2008-2013, he was tech lead on scientific instrumentation product at ReaMetrix. He started an enterprise blockchain company called Skuchain in 2014 and started teaching himself cryptography.In 2017, Zaki co-founded the Trusted IoT Alliance and iqlusion, and also started contributing more to Cosmos. He helped build the first validator dashboard and then Figment ran with the idea. He helped launch the first public Cosmos testnets. He spent a lot of 2018 working part time at All In Bits, building out the validator ecosystem, and figuring how to do quality assurance to enable the Cosmos launch.After All In Bits proved too unstable to finish the work, he resigned in Feb 2019 and is completing the IBC work with the community from contributors from Agoric, Interchain Berlin and Informal.https://zaki.manian.org/The Foresight Institute is a research organization and non-profit that supports the beneficial development of high-impact technologies. Since our founding in 1987 on a vision of guiding powerful technologies, we have continued to evolve into a many-armed organization that focuses on several fields of science and technology that are too ambitious for legacy institutions to support.The host, Allison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute. She directs the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension, Neurotech, and Space Programs, Fellowships, Prizes, and Tech Trees, and shares this work with the public. She founded Existentialhope.com, co-edited Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, co-authored Gaming the Future, and co-initiated The Longevity Prize. Apply to Foresight's virtual salons and in person workshops here!We are entirely funded by your donations. If you enjoy what we do please consider donating through our donation page.Visit our website for more content, or join us here:TwitterFacebookLinkedInEvery word ever spoken on this podcast is now AI-searchable using Fathom.fm, a search engine for podcasts.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ian Sagstetter of the Electric Coin Company and ZecHub comes on the Zcash Podcast to talk about his history and growing the Zcash community sustainably. Buy subscriber NFTs! https://descentr.net/nft/ Start living on crypto: https://descentr.net/crypto Crypto services directory: https://descentr.net/crypto-services Music from https://www.zapsplat.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/support

Francisco Gindre (@AppsCrafter en Twitter) es iOS Developer en Electric Coin Company y miembro de The Zcash Community Advisory Panel (ZCAP) desde 2022. Es Investigador en la facultad de informática de la Universidad Nacional De La Plata. En este episodio, Francisco nos cuenta sobre Zcash, datos y más temas interesantes.

Tornado Cash is an open source, decentralized cryptocurrency tumbler that was introduced in 2019. The service allows users to mix identifiable Ethereum cryptocurrency funds with others, thus obscuring the trail back to the funds original source. On August 8, 2022, the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tornado Cash, making it illegal for United States citizens, residents, and companies to receive or send money through the service. OFAC claims that Tornado cash is responsible for laundering more than $7 billion in virtual currencies, including money believed to be stolen by North Korea and criminal groups.As opposed to sanctioning people, organizations, or particular addresses associated with rogue regimes, OFAC has sanctioned the code of Tornado Cash itself, causing critics to claim that OFAC has exceeded its statutory authority .In this podcast, experts discuss OFAC's blacklisting of Tornado Cash, potential litigation from opponents, and the broader implications for financial privacy, national security, and free speech.Featuring:Paul Brigner, Head of U.S. Policy and Strategic Advocacy, Electric Coin Company.Michael Mosier, General Counsel, Espresso SystemsKevin Werbach, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaModerator: J.W. Verret, Associate Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Tornado Cash is an open source, decentralized cryptocurrency tumbler that was introduced in 2019. The service allows users to mix identifiable Ethereum cryptocurrency funds with others, thus obscuring the trail back to the funds original source. On August 8, 2022, the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tornado Cash, making it illegal for United States citizens, residents, and companies to receive or send money through the service. OFAC claims that Tornado cash is responsible for laundering more than $7 billion in virtual currencies, including money believed to be stolen by North Korea and criminal groups.As opposed to sanctioning people, organizations, or particular addresses associated with rogue regimes, OFAC has sanctioned the code of Tornado Cash itself, causing critics to claim that OFAC has exceeded its statutory authority .Join our experts as they discuss OFAC's blacklisting of Tornado Cash, potential litigation from opponents, and the broader implications for financial privacy, national security, and free speech.Featuring:Paul Brigner, Head of U.S. Policy and Strategic Advocacy, Electric Coin Company.Michael Mosier, General Counsel, Espresso SystemsKevin Werbach, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaModerator: J.W. Verret, Associate Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the Episode: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/the-cosmos-thesis-debrief  Sunny Agarwal and Zaki Manian are crypto OGs that have been in the Cosmos ecosystem and community from the very beginning. Sunny started the Blockchain at Berkeley, the largest student organization for crypto in the world, and also co-hosts the Epicenter podcast. Zaki is helping ship Cosmos's IBC, is working on the validator ecosystem, and is also an advisor to the Electric Coin Company, the org behind Zcash and is also a co-founder of Iqlusion. On today's episode, Sunny and Zaki share what the Cosmos Thesis is, how Cosmos is similar and different to Ethereum, and what Cosmos's ATOM 2.0 unlocks for the ecosystem. Zero to 60 in one episode. This is the Cosmos Thesis. ------

This week on The Defiant podcast we speak to Zooko, the founder of Zcash. Privacy remains one of the hottest issues in crypto after the U.S. Treasury's recent move to sanction Tornado Cash. Zooko believes the ability to consent to what information is made public is more about freedom than privacy and he thinks that eventually, this will be expected in the blockchain space. We explore what a private transaction using ZEC actually looks like, with shielded addresses visible only to the sender and receiver. Finally, Zooko talks about The Electric Coin Company's future plans, which include moving Zcash from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake and a standalone wallet. Thanking our podcast sponsors: 1inch is a DEX aggregator that finds the best rates across multiple networks. Why use a single DEX when you can use them all? Find your best deal at 1inch. Pods stETHvv allows you to accumulate more ETH in only one click. Every time ETH price bounces, up or down, the vault earns more ETH. In this market it's not a matter of IF price will move, but WEN. ZenGo a crypto wallet that uses biometric encryption, 3FA authentication and MPC wallet cryptography instead of private keys. ApeX Protocol: Engineered for high-performing precision trades in the decentralized derivatives market.

In this week's episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) explores Halo 2 with Daira Hopwood (https://twitter.com/feministPLT) and Str4d (https://twitter.com/str4d), cryptographic engineers at Electric Coin Company. They explored what new ideas Halo introduced and how Halo 2 built on these ideas, adding optimisations such as adding Plonk-ish arithmetization to take what was a breakthrough to a production ready proving system. This episode was recorded at Zcon3 in Vegas. Here are some links for this episode: * Episode on Halo (https://zeroknowledge.fm/123-2/) * Episode recorded at Zcon0 (https://zeroknowledge.fm/32-2/) * ZK Whiteboard Sessions (https://zkhack.dev/whiteboard/) * Episode with Sean Bowe (https://zeroknowledge.fm/76-2/) * Halo 2 explained (https://electriccoin.co/blog/explaining-halo-2/) * Justin Drake on Polynomial Commitments (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz16BURH_u8) * Str4d's talk at ZCon3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQWubFae7Y) * Daira's talk at ZCon3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6UToqiIdeY) * Ying Tong's talk at ZCon3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJi2TT2Ahp0) * Pratyush Mishra at Zcon3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MtzoVM6e6w) * The halo2 Book: Proving System (https://zcash.github.io/halo2/design/proving-system.html) * The halo2 Book: Protocol (https://zcash.github.io/halo2/design/protocol.html) * The halo2 Book: Sinsemilla (https://zcash.github.io/halo2/design/gadgets/sinsemilla.html) Check out ZK Whiteboard Sessions (https://zkhack.dev/whiteboard/), produced by ZK Hack (https://zkhack.dev/) & powered by Polygon (https://polygon.technology/), a weekly educational series of interviews with ZK experts on the most important concepts and building blocks in ZK. If you are looking to jump into ZK professionally, check out the ZK Jobs Board to find job posts from some of the top teams working in ZK – like Aleo, Anoma and Mina. If you're looking to hire, be sure to add your jobs as well! More at ZK Jobs Board (https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/). Today's episode is sponsored by Manta Network (https://www.manta.network/). Manta is the privacy hub for web3. By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs, Manta brings on-chain privacy to any crypto asset. Manta is looking for engineers passionate about cryptography and bringing convenient privacy protection to all of web3. Visit https://careers.manta.network ([https://careers.manta.network) to apply. If you like what we do: * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree (https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com) * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) * Join us on Telegram (https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram) * Catch us on Youtube (https://zeroknowledge.fm/) * Head to the ZK Community Forum (https://community.zeroknowledge.fm/) * Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://zeroknowledge.fm/gitcoin-grant-329-zkp-2)

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) & Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) catch up with Georgios Konstantopoulos (https://twitter.com/gakonst) from Paradigm (https://twitter.com/paradigm) - a well-known OG crypto VC. They chat about his move to CTO at the firm, the team he has built and what they are working on. Then they dive into Foundry - a fast, portable, modular testing toolkit for Ethereum app dev written in Rust. They discuss the tooling landscape, why Foundry is making a bet on solidity, the different types of testing that developers are doing and other open questions in the field. Here are some links for the episode: * Foundry on Github (https://github.com/gakonst/foundry) * Ep.142 Hasu & Georgios on BTC Sec. & Elastic Block Size (https://zeroknowledge.fm/142-2/) * Learning Foundry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp_V7bYiTCM) * Truffle Suite (https://trufflesuite.com/) * Hard Hat (https://hardhat.org/) * dAppTools (https://dapp.tools/) * Brownie (https://github.com/eth-brownie/brownie) * Vyper Lang (https://vyper.readthedocs.io/en/v0.1.0-beta.8/) * Arbitrum (https://offchainlabs.com/) Some of Georgios' collaborators mentioned: * @samczsun (https://twitter.com/samczsun) * @brockjelmore (https://twitter.com/brockjelmore) * @FrankieIsLost (https://twitter.com/FrankieIsLost) * @onbjerg (https://twitter.com/onbjerg) * @mattsse_ (https://twitter.com/mattsse_) On April 15th in Amsterdam, ZKValidator is hosting ‘Privacy in Cosmos' - the 4th installation in a series of events funded by the Cosmos Hub. Sign up: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/privacy-in-cosmos-live-in-amsterdam-tickets-290329462237 (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/privacy-in-cosmos-live-in-amsterdam-tickets-290329462237) zkSummit is back! Happening on April 21st in Amsterdam. Check out the program and details here: https://www.zksummit.com/ (https://www.zksummit.com/). We have a handful of sponsorships left! Get in touch to learn more: sponsorships@zeroknowledge.fm (mailto:sponsorships@zeroknowledge.fm) Today's episode is sponsored by Electric Coin Company (https://electriccoin.co/). Electric Coin Company, the inventors of Zcash, are building the next generation of zero-knowledge tech. With its Network Upgrade 5 happening this April, Zcash will move to the Halo zero-knowledge proving system, removing the trusted setup and becoming shielded by default. They believe privacy is essential to delivering on the promise of a thriving and equitable Web3. With Zcash and Halo cryptography, ECC aims to usher in an era of self-sovereignty, and economic and creative freedom. Visit electriccoin.co (https://electriccoin.co/) to learn more. If you like what we do: Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com) Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram (https://t.me/+TORo7aknkYNLHmCM) Catch us on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g) Head to the ZK Community Forum (https://community.zeroknowledge.fm/) Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2)

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Sreeram Kannan (https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan), Associate Professor at University of Washington where he runs the UW Blockchain Lab. In this episode, they look at how information theory and blockchain intersect and map the progression of Bitcoin security. They discuss Sreeram's early work on P2P mobile networks and how this evolved to work on consensus and fair sequencing. Sreeram takes us through his philosophical reasoning of shifting from genomic research to blockchain research and the two major areas in P2P systems that he focuses on: maximum throughput and low latency. Here are some links for the episode: * Sreeram on Twitter (https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan) * Sreeram's homepage (http://blockchain.ece.uw.edu/) * Episode 136 - Math competitions, crypto as alchemy & Gasper with Yan Zhang (https://zeroknowledge.fm/136-2/) * Prism: Scaling Bitcoin by 10,000x (https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11261) * Prism: Deconstructing the Blockchain to Approach Physical Limits (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3319535.3363213) * The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol: Analysis and Applications (https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/765.pdf) * Everything is a Race and Nakamoto Always Wins (https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10484) * Themis: Fast, Strong Order-Fairness in Byzantine Consensus (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1465) * Babylon: Reusing Bitcoin Mining to Enhance Proof-of-Stake Security (https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07946) * Blockchain CAP Theorem Allows User-Dependent Adaptivity and Finality (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-64331-0_5) * Combining GHOST and Casper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03052) If you're looking to jump into ZK Professionally I want to remind you to head over to the ZK Jobs board to find job posts from some of the top teams working in ZK: https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/ ZK Hack returns for a 2nd edition with ZK Hack Mini – a shorter form event spanning 2 weeks and kicks off on March 1st with a series of workshops and puzzle hacking competitions. Join the newsletter (https://www.zkhack.dev/mini) for updates or sign up for the first event (https://hopin.com/events/zk-hack-mini-1/) on March 1st. Today's episode is sponsored by Electric Coin Company. Electric Coin Company (https://electriccoin.co), the inventors of Zcash and Halo cryptography, are building the next generation of zero-knowledge tech. With Network Upgrade 5 happening this April, Zcash moves to the Halo zero-knowledge proving system, removing trusted setup and becoming shielded by default. With the help of Zcash and Halo cryptography, ECC aims to usher in an era of self-sovereignty and creative freedom. To learn more and explore the relationship between privacy, self-sovereignty and creative freedom, visit electriccoin.co (https://electriccoin.co/) If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram (https://t.me/joinchat/TORo7aknkYNLHmCM) Catch us on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g) Read up on the r/ZKPodcast subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/zkpodcast) Give us feedback! -https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2) Support us on the ZKPatreon (https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge) Donate through coinbase.commerce (https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/f1e56274-c92b-4a99-802f-50727d651b38)

Crypto Wednesday: Aztec co-founder Thomas Walton-Pocock hosts Zooko Wilcox, CEO of Electric Coin Company, to discuss Zcash, privacy, technical barriers, and innovation. Zcash, a decentralized, open-source cryptocurrency, is most identified by individuals for its built-in encryption which allows for private data in a public blockchain. Zcash's most important feature, according to Wilcox, is its dev fund—it's self-funding, which allows developers to continuously improve the protocol in order to prevent the currency from being undermined, weakened, vulnerable to capture, or steered in a direction for an individual's benefit. Some investors treat privacy, whether offered by Zcash or any other protocol, merely as an additional feature; however, Wilcox explains that because privacy is a fundamental aspect of its design, the Zcash protocol is stronger than other protocols that add privacy as a feature on top. Recorded on April 20, 2021. Key Learnings: According to Wilcox, privacy is a human right—consumers need it and are losing it to the internet. Wilcox saw Bitcoin as having a head start, and Zcash would be a niche alternative for those who were especially sensitive or motivated, or most importantly, for commerce. With its funding, continuous evolution, and use of zero knowledge, Wilcox believes that Zcash and its scalability could become the gold standard for usage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 73 features a great interview with Josh Swihart, Senior Vice President of Growth, Regulatory, and Product at Electric Coin Company, the creators of the cryptocurrency Zcash. Josh gives us a 101 on Zcash and its use cases. Learn more about Electric Coin Company and Zcash at https://electriccoin.co Podcast music by www.bensound.com

Booyyyoooboyyy do we have a good one for you! In today's episode we welcome David Campbell, COO of the Electric Coin Company. We cover all the basics of cryptocurrency investing, including: - What's the difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum? - Who should be investing in crypto, and what should they invest in? - Will we see inflation of the US dollar soon? - Why is Tesla buying Bitcoin? - What are some interesting use cases for cryptocurrency and how will it impact our daily lives? You can see current decentralized finance volume at https://defipulse.com/. You can donate to support Texas at https://adrn.org/ and https://aaul.org/ Stay humble and $GME on :)

Go down the rabbit hole with Nathan Wilcox, CTO of Electric Coin Company, the inventors of Zcash, empowering people with economic freedom. We take a deep dive into the next wave of defi, why privacy is key to crypto adoption and the benefits & risks of decentralization.

David Campbell of the Electric Coin Company, the main development group for Zcash, comes on the podcast to discuss the coming privacy revolution in cryptocurrency, following much in the way that online encryption became mainstream. We also talked about Ciphertrace claiming to trace Monero transactions, as well as opsec required to actually stay private when transacting online. Donate - Sponsors Thank you so much for listening! Please leave a tip if you enjoy the content, either here or via any of the cryptocurrency addresses in my CoinTree link. You can also send a message with a CoinTree donation. I'd love to hear from you! Thanks to my recurring donors both anonymous and otherwise! - https://cointr.ee/thedesertlynx Support us by checking out our sponsors! Protect your privacy online, sign up to NordVPN with the promo code DCN and get 68% off, or just $3.71 per month, plus an additional month free! - https://nordvpn.org/dcn If you're tired of YouTube and other platforms censoring and demonetizing creators, what are you waiting for? Join LBRY! - https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@DigitalCashNetwork:c Want to live on crypto? Use Bitrefill to buy gift cards or pay mobile bills from more than 1650 businesses in 170 countries quickly, safely, and privately. - https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/?code=rRIQPc1m If don't want search engines like Google controlling your search results and selling your information, join Presearch and get paid to search! - https://presearch.org/signup?rid=865012 Music from https://www.zapsplat.com

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“The blind stares of a million pairs of eyes. Lookin' hard but won't realize that they will never see.” In this week's episode, the guys chopped it up with the VP of Growth at the Electric Coin Company, Josh Swihart (Intro:1:12), about his interest in crypto ( 2:06), entry into the Crypto Industry (5:22), journey into privacy & what is Zcash? (11:09), Legends of the Crypto Gawds: How ZCash got founded? (15:52), the opt-in privacy of ZCash (18:19), shielded transactions (21:40), fears in cryptocurrency space today (23:23), Inclusivity in Crypto (25:10), ZCash initiative to bridge the gap (26:26), his excitement in new projects in Crypto (32:46), tools of accessibility to crypto (34:50), Zcash foundation grants (37:58), tokenized currencies replacing USD (39:03), Thoughts on having a decentralized global currency (43:58), and more. Feel free to shoot us an email at tradingplacespod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, chart requests, recommendations, or topics we should cover in our future episodes. Outro: Black Eyed Peas - “ Joints & Jam" Social Instagram: @tradingplacespod Twitter:@tradingxplaces The information in this podcast should not be taken as investment advice; it is purely educational material —- and you should always do your research before buying or selling any securities.

In this episode, we catch up with Sean Bowe (https://twitter.com/ebfull) and Daira Hopwood (https://twitter.com/feministPLT) from the Electric Coin Company (https://electriccoin.co/) to chat about Halo, a recursive proof composition that doesn't require a trusted setup. We cover the efficiency techniques used in Halo such as "nested amortization", how the protocol was developed, what some of the key findings are, and how it fits in with the other recent SNARK-based protocols. We touch on the following material: Sean Bowe on SNARKs, Trusted Setups & Elliptic Curve Cryptography (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/76) https://github.com/daira/tweedle Halo whitepaper (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1021.pdf) Endomorphism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endomorphism) Latest recursive SNARKitecture with Izaak Meckler from O(1)Labs (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/113) Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/114) If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram (https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA) Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2) Support us on the ZKPatreon (https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge) Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by Elena Giralt, the Electric Coin Company’s product marketing associate known for her research on cryptocurrency usage in Latin America, to talk about how digital assets can subvert power dynamics. According to the Brookings Institute, roughly 4.6 million Venezuelans have fled the country so far, which the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called the largest exodus in the region’s recent history. Many such refugees and diaspora Venezuelans use cryptocurrency for remittances or to earn freelance income. But, as Giralt pointed out, the industry at-large has a long way to go to improve ethical marketing in the region. “Adoption has been overstated by companies that have a vested interest,” she said. “If you’re going to promote a certain solution or initiative in a vulnerable population, there’s really a higher bar for disclosures and informed consent.” Consent is, from Giralt’s perspective, the underlying principle of cypherpunk technology. Later, we'll discuss how financial privacy is crucial to women’s rights and free, easy ways for people to empower women in their local communities.Want more? Leigh also has an article about Venezuelans using cryptocurrency.

In this week’s episode, we welcome special guest Sean Bowe. Sean is an engineer at the Electric Coin Company (https://twitter.com/zcashco) and the author of the Sprout and Sapling Zcash trusted set ups and much of the underlying cryptography of the protocol. We had a chance to chat about his history, what got him into the topic, some of the joys & challenges to working with SNARKs, and what ideas are inspiring him. We also covered the story of Zcash and the Powers of Tau trusted set up, MPCs, the story of the bug, SONICs (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/099.pdf), ZEXE (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/962), the BLS12-381 Elliptic Curve Construction (https://z.cash/blog/new-snark-curve/) Early on in the episode, we mention the Radiolab episode about the zcash trusted setup: https://archive.org/details/radiolabpodcast17cryptozcash_ceremony Questions from the audience: https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose/status/1122818062061797376 We also mention some of our previous ZK centric episodes that can be found here: https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/zkseries Special thanks to this week's sponsor: Trail of Bits (https://www.trailofbits.com/) Trail of Bits is offering a service for young technology companies who could use expert security support, but aren't quite at a stage to hire their own team. The service includes staffing a #security channel to answer questions, review high risk PRs, and integrate the latest in continuous testing into your build pipeline. Visit www.trailofbits.com for help securing your product. If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA Support our Gitcoin Grant - https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

In this week's episode, we invite J. Ayo Akinyele (https://twitter.com/ja_akinyele) to the podcast. Ayo is a co-Founder of Bolt Labs (https://github.com/boltlabs-inc) which will be focused on developing the Bolt Protocol (https://github.com/boltlabs-inc), a privacy preserving layer 2 approach for anonymous micropayments, which is similar to Lightning Network. Bolt, which stands for Blind, Offchain, Lightweight, Transactions, could be used for both scaling zcash or providing a scalable privacy solution for other chains. Here are some additional resources: * Original Bolt Paper by Matthew Green and Ian Meiers: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/701.pdf * Bolt description the Electric Coin Company's blog: https://z.cash/blog/bolt-private-payment-channels/ * Ayo was on the podcast before in our Zcon0 episode: https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/32 (he features around the 17 minute mark) Here is some additional information about the Lightning Network (https://cointelegraph.com/explained/lightning-network-explained) and the projects Casa Nodes (https://store.casa/lightning-node/) and Bitrefill (https://www.bitrefill.com/) which are mentioned in the episode. Special thanks to this week's sponsor: Trail of Bits (https://www.trailofbits.com/) Trail of Bits is offering a service for young technology companies who could use expert security support, but aren't quite at a stage to hire their own team. The service includes staffing a #security channel to answer questions, review high risk PRs, and integrate the latest in continuous testing into your build pipeline. Visit www.trailofbits.com for help securing your product. If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA Support our Gitcoin Grant - https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-first episode features Josh Cincinnati. Josh is the executive director of the Zcash Foundation, a non-profit focused on financial privacy and in particular serving users of the Zcash protocol. Zcash itself is a digital currency that provides enhanced privacy for users. Neither the foundation or the currency is to be confused with Zcash the company, which recently rebranded itself as the Electric Coin Company (but not quite in time for this podcast recording!). All of this can be a little confusing — but fortunately, Josh helps break down these definitions and relationships, as well as the mission of the Zcash Foundation, on this podcast.  On this episode Josh talks about the purpose of foundations (and Zcash Foundation in particular), how he thinks about privacy for individuals, how to get millions of people actually using Zcash, and why we should still have trust in blockchain technology — even if Bruce Schneier is a skeptic. Enigma's new podcast "Decentralize This!" features guests from all over the decentralization space: developers, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, writers, artists, people in government and enterprise - all individuals who care deeply about building a more decentralized and sustainable world. How can all these people with different perspectives collaborate to create and scale the technologies we need to shape a better future? ---- Relevant links: Zcash Foundation: https://www.zfnd.org Zcash: https://z.cash Bruce Schneier’s WIRED article: https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/ Bruce Schneier on Decentralize This!: https://blog.enigma.co/decentralize-this-special-episode-1-bruce-schneier-8f8546da8b82
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