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This is my conversation with Andrew Miller who is working on product at Teleport, and is also Associate Director at IC3 and Board Member at the Zcash Foundation.Timestamps:- (00:00:00) intro- (00:00:59) from bitcoin research to privacy, ZKPs, and MPC- (00:13:23) trust models and threat vectors to TEEs- (00:21:16) what is possible with trustless TEEs?- (00:38:37) TEEs-based internet agents- (00:45:41) Dstack, a p2p architecture for TEEs- (00:52:50) learnings as a researcher- (00:58:42) sponsor: Splits- (00:59:25) pathfinding in research- (01:06:11) 2011 bitcoin unboxing and the early bitcoin ecosystem- (01:17:54) vision for the future - (01:21:22) outroLinks:- Andrew on X: https://x.com/socrates1024- Andrew on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Socrates1024- Andrew's research: https://soc1024.ece.illinois.edu- Personal site: https://soc1024.com- Zero Trust Execution Environments paper: https://writings.flashbots.net/ZTEE- Zcash Foundation: https://zfnd.org- IC3: https://www.ic3.govThank you to our sponsor for making this podcast possible:- Splits: https://splits.orgInto the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

In this week's episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Nico (https://twitter.com/nico_mnbl) chat with Chelsea Komlo (https://twitter.com/chelseakomlo), Chief Scientist for the Zcash Foundation (https://zfnd.org/) and member of the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy lab at the University of Waterloo (https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/). They discuss what sparked Chelsea's interest in cryptography research, starting with her work contributing to Tor, to her move to Zcash and her PhD work on Threshold Signature Schemes. They define some important terms around different signature schemes and discuss possible optimizations that can be used to make these more performant. They then dive into her work on the FROST Threshold Signature Scheme plus some new upcoming work. Here's some additional links for this episode: EdSIDH: Supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange on Edwards Curves by Azarderakhsh, Lang, Jao and Koziel (https://djao.math.uwaterloo.ca/wiki/images/f/ff/Space-2018.pdf) Efficient Signature Generation by Smart Cards by Schnorr (https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF00196725.pdf) FROST: Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures by Komlo and Goldberg (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/852.pdf) Episode 316: Alin Tomescu on Distributed On-chain Randomness and Keyless Accounts (https://zeroknowledge.fm/316-2/) Episode 295: Return to MPC with Nigel Smart (https://zeroknowledge.fm/295-2/) [On the (in)security of ROS] by Benhamouda, Lepoint, Loss, Orr`u and Raykova](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/945.pdf) Re-Randomized FROST by Gouvˆea and Komlo (https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/436.pdf) Frostsnap (https://frostsnap.com/) CFRG GitHub Repository for FROST (https://github.com/cfrg/draft-irtf-cfrg-frost) zkSummit11 is happening next week, head to the zkSummit website (https://www.zksummit.com/) to apply for a waitlist spot now. The event will be held on 10 April in Athens, Greece. Check out the ZK Jobs Board (https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/) Aleo (http://aleo.org/) is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup. Dive deeper and discover more about Aleo at http://aleo.org/ (http://aleo.org/) 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/)

19th December: Crypto & Coffee at 8

Ryan Taylor of the Zcash Foundation Audio/Visual Club joins the Zcash Podcast for a recap of Zcon4, the recent Zcash conference in Barcelona, and where Zcash stands today and is going from here. 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?Marta Belcher, Filecoin Foundation - Shielded Transaction SpecialMarta Belcher is president and chair of the Filecoin Foundation and head of policy at Protocol Labs. Marta also serves on the Boards of the Zcash Foundation and the Blockchain Association, and is a member of Paradigm's Policy Council. Marta is a pioneer in blockchain law and policy, and has testified in Congress and state legislatures as well as speaking in European Parliament. Marta has submitted briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. appellate courts for high-profile public interest organizations, including EFF, the Center for Democracy & Technology, Public Knowledge, the Cato Institute, the National Consumers' League, Project Gutenberg, and the Blockchain Association. Marta has been recognized by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer awards, by Law360's list of Top Attorneys Under 40, by CryptoWeekly's list of Most Influential Women in Crypto, and as Business Intelligence Group's Woman of the Year.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.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.

A Special Podcast Series on Zero-knowledge-enabled Cooperation, sponsored by Zcash-FoundationThis is a three part privacy podcast series, #ShieldedTransactions, that examines the increasing surveillance of contemporary society, and the effective tech solutions that can help change that. Andrew MillerI'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in Electrical and Computer Engineering and affiliate in Computer Science. I'm also an Associate Director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3) and a board member of the Zcash Foundation and Ethereum Enterprise Alliance. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Maryland Cybersecurity Center. I am Director of the Decentralized Systems Lab at UIUC!Session summary: (425) Shielded Transactions | Who Will Own Your Privacy & Identity In the Future? (with Andrew Miller) - YouTube 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.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.

Bennett and Cas are joined by their good friend, former executive director of the Zcash Foundation, and current board member of the Mina Foundation, Josh Cincinnati. We wanted to pretend this was a debate about whether money laundering should be illegal, instead we all pretty much agreed, "Yes, it should." But we had to define it first and discuss the rules and regulations put in place because of it before coming to a peace accord. Follow Josh on Twitter @acityinohio or visit his website https://ponzico.win This episode was recorded on Monday, March 21st, 2022.

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Josh (https://twitter.com/acityinohio) chat with Jill Gunter (https://twitter.com/jillrgunter) (nèe Carlson), a well-known investor and crypto advocate, to dive deep into the eternal dilemma of privacy vs. transparency and how ZKPs can finally give us the tools to be more nuanced about our society's approach to privacy. Starting from Jill's background as a bond trader on Wall Street, the conversation quickly shifts into how the need for transparency in the financial system and the ability to root out bad actors clashes with the need to maintain individual privacy. This topic touches aspects such as crypto & DeFi privacy, how regulation may be applied to them, and why ZKPs and their power of selective disclosure can change the paradigm of privacy. Here are some links for this episode: Josh Cincinnati on Zcash, governance and leaving the Zcash Foundation, Zero Knowledge Episode 143 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/143) The Why & How of Privacy for DAOs, Zero Knowledge Episode 190 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/190) Analyzing Osmosis & Preventing MEV with Sunny and Dev, Zero Knowledge Episode 188 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/188) Make sure to subscribe to the zkMesh (zkmesh.substack.com) newsletter, a curated list of all the latest happenings in ZK land, coming out every month. The next installment is slated for the first week of August. Thanks to this week's sponsor, Least Authority (https://leastauthority.com/?mtm_campaign=ZKPod-Jul28)! Least Authority is a leader in the security of distributed systems. They provide security consulting services, develop open source products and contribute to the advancement of learning and research in the field. They have recently published a whitepaper on Zero Knowledge Access Passes, a protocol that enables users to access services without revealing personal information. Least Authority also reached a notable milestone this month with the completion of their 100th security audit. To read their published audits, which include multiple projects on Ethereum, Tezos and other notable ecosystems, and to check out the ZKAPs whitepaper visit their website www.leastauthority.com (https://leastauthority.com/?mtm_campaign=ZKPod-Jul28). 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) Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

The Magical Crypto Friends Show Episode 25: Support Zooko Special thanks to our sponsor: BTSE (https://www.btse.com/) In this episode we discuss the following topics: • ZCash development Fund • BitPay's fees and KYC • BitMEX Sanctioned Got questions you want us to answer? Got topics you want us to discuss? Put them in the comments below, or Tweet at @magicalcrypto. If you're feeling generous and would like to see more cool content feel free to donate something: Bitcoin: 3NQms9Mw41QzRiLUeHqcQmw4KGffxbeM3X Litecoin: MFpH1fECensznUE79XBBqnKUKFd58KGtQF Monero: 48mcfqHkbXhM4H14W5ztC2KBfRprtEp85aQPJaqLnPLTAJ53xQJhPxEJYigcHhrF9NafPK5T3UvokQjhDMqVqGvCNMRHgZ4 Bcash: ROFL All donations will be used for the further development of the show.

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with guests Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) (Gauntlet & Robot Ventures), James Prestwich (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) (cLabs) and Josh Cincinnati (https://twitter.com/acityinohio) (previously Zcash Foundation). Throughout this conversation, they touch on topics like the state of zero knowledge applications, blockchain technology, privacy and DeFi. They also explore what we can expect in the near future. Here are a few of the papers and links we mention in the show: * Mina’s Testworld (https://minaprotocol.com/adversarial) * Barry’s Post Why you can’t build a private uniswap with ZKPs (https://ethresear.ch/t/why-you-cant-build-a-private-uniswap-with-zkps/7754) * Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges (https://pdaian.com/flashboys2.pdf) * Flashbots Project (https://github.com/flashbots/pm) 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) 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)

This week, Anna and Fredrik do a look back at 2020 and chat about some of their favourite ZKPodcast episodes and themes from this past year. This is also a notable episode, as it will be Fredrik's last as a regular co-host. And so they also take this time to reminisce and look back over 3 years of the Zero Knowledge Podcast and share some thoughts on how the space has developed. Some of the 2020 episodes discussed: * ZK & Games: Dark Forest with Brian Gu (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/141) * Isogenies with Luca De Feo (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/117) * ZKPs in Ethereum with Vitalik Buterin & Justin Drake (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/120) * Consensus Algorithms & HotStuff with Ittai Abraham (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/127) * Proof of Necessary Work with Akis Kattis (NYU) (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/131) * Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/133) * A Tale of Sushi(Swap) with Tarun, Hasu and Anna - Part1 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/148) * Josh Cincinnati on Zcash, governance and leaving the Zcash Foundation (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/143) Some of the projects that had previously been on the zkPodcast that launched or were announced this year: Zk-projects: * Hermez Network (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/145) * Aleo (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/144) * MACI (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/159) * DeversiFi (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/138) * Loopring (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/161) L1s: * Polkadot (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/46) * Near (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/157) * Filecoin (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/106) * Nucypher (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/63) Thanks to our sponsor Least Authority (https://leastauthority.com/). Least Authority is a security consulting company known for their dedication to pushing the limits on how to build privacy-respecting solutions. They are a team of security researchers, open source developers, privacy advocates, cryptographers who specialize in security audits, design specification reviews, and security-by-design. Given that privacy is at the core of their work and mission, least authority recognizes the importance of privacy in DeFi and other decentralizing technologies and the role it plays in preserving balance of power. Join their mailing list to connect and stay informed on the latest in Least Authority security audit reports, upcoming events, open source contributions and product development initiatives. Subscribe at leastauthority.com/newsletter (https://leastauthority.com/newsletter/) 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) 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) Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

Episode 11 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Josh Cincinnati, the former Executive Director of the Zcash Foundation. Tor asks Josh: What secrets did he learn trying to bring privacy to the cryptocurrency space? Why is privacy education and communication so challenging? What are the biggest threats to privacy and our greatest opportunities to solve them? And what relationship is there between protecting privacy and decentralization? Do they go hand in hand - or are they at odds? Josh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/acityinohio --- Sharing Secrets - a new series from the Secret Foundation - explores the biggest secrets of the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Featuring everything from interviews, to monologues, to special guests, to technical explainers, to surprises, and beyond. The Secret Foundation is a key organization in the Secret Network ecosystem. It is dedicated to building, researching, and scaling adoption of open-source, privacy-centric technologies and networks. Its guiding values are Usability, Sustainability, Impact, and Empowerment. Secret Network is the first blockchain to allow privacy-preserving smart contracts. That means applications built on Secret can utilize encrypted data without revealing it to anyone, even the nodes in the network. Using groundbreaking privacy technologies (such as trusted execution environments), Secret Network allows developers to build new types of powerful, permissionless, privacy-preserving applications - Secret Apps. Join our communities and help us build! Homepage: https://scrt.network Official Chat: https://chat.scrt.network Community Telegram: https://t.me/scrtcommunity Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/secretnetwork

Bully sits down with Peter Van Valkenburgh --Director of Research at Coin Center and a member of the Board of Directors of the Zcash Foundation--to talk about the importance of privacy and the state and direction of crypto-specific policy/regulation in the United States and abroad. ––– PHEMEX Phemex is a derivatives and spot cryptocurrency exchange led by a team of former Morgan Stanley Executives. It offers all major cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, XRP), highly volatile altcoins (LINK, DOT, UNI, YIFI, etc), and GOLD. Come trade with unmatched speed and efficiency: click the link below for an exclusive 10% trading fee discount and a $100 trading bonus. Visit https://phemex.com/a/Bully for more info! ––– Listen on Apple. Listen on Spotify. This podcast is presented by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: http://blockworks.co.

Josh Cincinnati, former Executive Director of the Zcash Foundation, joins the show to talk about his tenure at that organization, and lessons he's taken from the experience. In this episode:  The genesis of the Zcash Foundation Prior foundation mistakes that Josh sought to avoid The difference between governing a non-cryptocurrency FOSS project and an open source protocol with an explicit monetary element Why Josh chose to step down from the Zcash Foundation How the monetary distribution of Zcash was initially devised and how the founder's reward became a developer fund The dynamics around the trademark sharing in Zcash Trademarks as a last resort tool of power in blockchain governance How public blockchains are 'Marxist in their goals, Leninist in their implementations' How the mandate of the Zcash Foundation was broader than simply the Zcash ecosystem The current outlook for funding Zcash development The subtle change in the social contract underlying development funding Why poorly formalized social contracts risk opening up projects to capture How 'aid dependency' is relevant to blockchain governance Why blockchain insiders hide the true mechanisms of power Why coin votes might be more of the output of power rather than the input Josh's advice to a founder trying to devise funding for a novel cryptocurrency Why Rawls' Veil of Ignorance is so important in determining initial conditions for a monetary protocol What Josh is working on now The story behind PonzICO.win Why there is no good satire in the crypto industry Content mentioned in this episode: Angela Walch, Deconstructing 'Decentralization': Exploring the Core Claim of Crypto Systems James Prestwich, Zcash Dev Fund Opinions

Ian Mier’s graduate work in cryptography pioneered the integration of zero-knowledge proof systems and cryptocurrency blockchains. Along with co-authors, he published the Zero-Coin and Zero-Cash research papers that eventually informed the creation of the Zcash blockchain and cryptocurrency. Peter and Ian discuss the importance of privacy in cryptocurrency technology, the tradeoffs made within different cryptocurrency projects, and the potential for future, fully private stablecoins and other user defined assets. 

In this episode we chat with Josh Cincinnati (https://twitter.com/acityinohio), the former executive director of Zcash Foundation (https://twitter.com/ZcashFoundation). We cover Josh's career before Zcash, his work at the foundation, the important role privacy plays in crypto and the challenges of decentralised governance. We also discuss his decision to leave the foundation, Zcash Foundation's philosophy of transparency, his hopes for the future of the Zcash community, his next steps and why he thinks people in crypto may wanna take themselves a bit less serious and remember to have some fun! Here are some additional links: Zcash Foundation (https://www.zfnd.org/) Josh’s parting letter (https://gist.github.com/acityinohio/8590e5384806090fbcf5609e613eae51) Previous episodes on Zcash with Zooko (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/50), Sean Bowe (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/76), Sean and Daira (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/123) and Henry de Valence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly2QlBltDF0) Catch this cross-over appearance with Anna on Josh's Twodcast (https://twitter.com/acityinohio/status/1293582094581587969?s=20). His show is released once per ... whenever Josh feels like As mentioned in the intro, the ZkValidator.com (https://zkvalidator.com) is now live on 3 networks: Cosmos, Kusama and, as of this month, Polkadot. For the origin story of the ZKValidator, check out this zkpodcast episode with the guys from Bison Trails (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/80) If you are a token holder on Cosmos, Kusama and/or Polkadot and you think privacy matters, want to see more zkps integrated throughout these networks and generally wanna support this initiative, head to our website: ZkValidator.com (https://zkvalidator.com). There you can find instructions on how to stake your tokens to our validator. For Cosmos visit - https://zkvalidator.com/cosmos/ For Kusama visit - https://zkvalidator.com/kusama/ For Polkadot visit - https://zkvalidator.com/polkadot/ 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) 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) Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: T-add: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ Z-add: zs1f8jjtkuqwvxy9h4q7grl6287hmpzyt4s55d392djx43wxxudwv20x7qgs74kp2h6e9k95lswst8 (Just added!!)

In this week's episode, we chat with Henry de Valence (https://twitter.com/hdevalence/) from the Zcash Foundation (https://www.zfnd.org/). We discuss what makes for a strong crypto library, some of the work he has been doing at the ZF and he shares an update about the Zebra Zcash client. We also learn about the TCN Coalition (https://github.com/TCNCoalition/TCN), a group he is working with that aims to build and evaluate privacy-preserving contact tracing protocols - an important tool in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Here are some useful links about things we discussed: The Zcash Foundation's 2020 Q1 Report (https://www.zfnd.org/blog/q1-report-2020/) Cosmos Zcash Pegzone research (https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zcash-pegzone) Desired characteristics and assumptions of a contact tracing system (https://github.com/TCNCoalition/TCN/blob/main/README.md#ideal-functionality-and-trust-assumptions-in-contact-tracing-systems) DP3T protocol (https://github.com/DP-3T/documents) Thank you to this week's sponsor Trail of Bits (https://trailofbits.com) In a recent blog post, ToB announced some important updates to Echidna, their smart contract fuzzer. Echidna is one of the tools that the team at Trail of Bits uses the most in their smart contract audits - it has been used in almost 35% of their smart contract audits over the past two years. Including the audits they did for MakerDAO, 0x, and Balancer. In this update to the fuzzer, they have streamlined integration with complex Truffle projects and the tool now support smart contracts written in Vyper. Thay have also removed the need to write Echidna-specific tests and can automatically fuzz assert statements in Solidity. For more about all these new features check out the blog all about it here: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/03/30/an-echidna-for-all-seasons/ Thanks again Trail of Bits (https://trailofbits.com). 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) 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) Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

The best way to fund open source projects remains a question, and one that - in the context of crypto protocols - has never had higher stakes. Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen live action experiments in a number of different approaches. Gitcoin grants used a quadratic funding program to match grants to technology builders and media creators in Ethereum After months and months of concerted community debate and conversation, Zcash will implement a new Dev Fund of 20% of the block rewards after the Founders Reward runs out in November, splitting it between the Electric Coin Co (7%), Zcash Foundation (5%) and 3rd party developers (8%)A consortium (cartel?) of the 4 largest BCH mining pools tried to insist upon a 12.5% block reward diversion to a new dev fund, with a threat to orphan blocks that didn’t comply. The plan ran into a barrier when Roger Ver’s bitcoin.com backed away. Also in this episode, @nlw looks at the latest in CBDCs - including Japan’s continued hedging that they’re preparing for the possibility of needing to move quickly and Cambodia’s announcement that they will be implementing a CBDC this quarter. Finally, Andrew Yang took a few minutes yesterday to talk about cryptocurrencies and why regulation with the intent to stop them would be doomed to fail.

The best way to fund open source projects remains a question, and one that - in the context of crypto protocols - has never had higher stakes. Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen live action experiments in a number of different approaches.  Gitcoin grants used a quadratic funding program to match grants to technology builders and media creators in Ethereum  After months and months of concerted community debate and conversation, Zcash will implement a new Dev Fund of 20% of the block rewards after the Founders Reward runs out in November, splitting it between the Electric Coin Co (7%), Zcash Foundation (5%) and 3rd party developers (8%) A consortium (cartel?) of the 4 largest BCH mining pools tried to insist upon a 12.5% block reward diversion to a new dev fund, with a threat to orphan blocks that didn’t comply. The plan ran into a barrier when Roger Ver’s bitcoin.com backed away.  Also in this episode, @nlw looks at the latest in CBDCs - including Japan’s continued hedging that they’re preparing for the possibility of needing to move quickly and Cambodia’s announcement that they will be implementing a CBDC this quarter.  Finally, Andrew Yang took a few minutes yesterday to talk about cryptocurrencies and why regulation with the intent to stop them would be doomed to fail.

In this episode, Joe talks to Deirdre Connolly and Anna Kaplan from Zcash Foundation (https://www.zfnd.org/) on the state of the Rust Zcash client, “Zebra,” originally developed by Parity Technologies (https://parity.io) and now maintained by Zcash Foundation. They also discuss integrating cryptography into our day-to-day lives, quantum-resistant cryptography, and what baby zebras are called. Highlights 00:28 - How Anna and Deirdre got to the Zcash Foundation 02:08 - Why have multiple Zcash clients? 06:54 - The state of Zebra now and future plans. 11:38 - Build-test-deploy benchmark pipeline 20:53 - Blossom features 22:03 - Integrating cryptography into our day-to-day lives 33:33 - Quantum security Links Zebra repo (https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra) Parity’s Zebra release announcement (https://www.parity.io/parity-releases-zebra-in-collaboration-with-zcash-foundation/)Deirdre Connolly on Twitter (https://twitter.com/durumcrustulum)Anna Kaplan on Twitter (https://twitter.com/kaplannie)Zcash Rocket Chat (https://chat.zcashcommunity.com) Zcash Community dev room (https://chat.zcashcommunity.com/channel/zcash-dev)Zcash Wizards chat (https://chat.zcashcommunity.com/channel/zcash-wizards) Subscribe and follow us at @relaychain (https://twitter.com/relaychain) to stay tuned for more episodes. Special Guests: Anna Kaplan and Deirdre Connolly.

In this episode, we sit down at the Zcon1 Conference (https://www.zfnd.org/zcon/) in Croatia with Amber Baldet, CEO and co-founder of Clovyr, former JPMorgan Blockchain Program Lead, and board member of the Zcash Foundation (https://www.zfnd.org/). We chat about about her road to the blockchain space, the problems she aims to solve with her work on Clovyr, some updates about the Zcash community & foundation, the state of zero knowledge research and the potential and challenges around the implementation of zero knowledge systems in the real world. Thanks again to this week's sponsor Neufund (https://neufund.org/). If you’re interested in how Neufund's open-source technical environment is enabling tokenization of real-world assets or the QA position, check their GitHub profile at github.com/neufund (https://github.com/neufund) or the Neufund job offers at neufund.org/careers (https://neufund.org/careers) 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

This episode features a conversation between Peter Van Valkenburgh - Director of Research at Coin Center, the leading non-profit focused on the policy issues facing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin - and Muneeb Ali, CEO of Blockstack PBC. Peter and Muneeb discuss Coin Center’s mission and recent work, Facebook’s Libra Coin, the case for a true electronic cash, and more. 0:00:50 Peter's bio 0:01:09 Peter: "[Coin Center] was my first big job out of law school." 0:02:58 Muneeb: "You're OG now. When did Blockstack start sponsoring Coin Center?" 0:03:18 Peter: "Coin Center got its start in 2014. We got some really generous runway from a couple of donors who are just individuals who wanted to see a more adult advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. focused on this stuff." 0:04:56 Peter: "Coin Center is supposed to be an independent digital civil lIberties organization that goes and represents the underlying open technologies to Congress or to regulators." 0:06:08 Muneeb: "I simply say [the people at Coin Center]... actually understand this technology and they understand the regulations and the law, which is a rare combination. And they can be the right bridge between this technology and the various regulators or lawmakers." 0:06:29 Peter: "I think that's right. A lot of what we do I often think of as translation." 0:07:13 Peter: "More often than not we're explaining the law to lawyers in this space." 0:08:51 Peter: "There's no company - and all previous financial regulations - almost all - rely on finding a regulated entity and obligating that regulated entity to achieve the policy result that government wants." 0:09:37 Peter: "In the Bitcoin case, who's the issuer of the Bitcoin security?" 0:09:52 Peter: "Who in the Zcash space should be obligated for money laundering compliance?" 0:11:38 Muneeb: "One of my working theories is that Satoshi Nakamoto - whoever that person or group of individuals were - not only understood computer science, distributed systems, applied cryptography, and game theory, they actually knew securities regulation as well and that's why we don't know who is Satoshi Nakamoto." 0:12:42 Peter: "The policy objective that securities law seek to address are correcting the asymmetric information between issuers who are promising things to investors and the investors who've paid money to the investors." 0:13:51 Peter: "There are still the potential for information asymmetries. And I've sort of gotten into this debate with Angela Walch before about whether there's information asymmetries between software developers and the users of a software." 0:15:35 Muneeb: "Speaking of securities regulation I should just make a note here: we have a public filing with the SEC." 0:16:13 Peter: "From my perspective [Blockstack] has taken a really responsible and conservative approach to securities law compliance." 0:17:06 Peter: "I'm not a huge fan of the way we do investor protection in this country because it's very permissioned and it also excludes a lot of investors from participating." 0:18:58 Muneeb: "We actually had you host our Blockstack Summit in Berlin, and you interviewed Edward Snowden there. How was that experience? And has he been more active in the space? Or was that a one off thing?" 0:19:32 Peter: "That experience was awesome - it's still probably one of the craziest things I've ever done." 0:22:36 Peter: "I do think [Edward Snowden] has been quasi-active in the Zcash development community." 0:24:43 Peter: "He's worked on something really cool with the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which is if you have an old cell phone and want to turn it into an alarm system." 0:26:16 Muneeb: "Have you checked out any of the latest stuff that's been built on Blockstack?" 0:26:24 Peter: "I have a real interest in Graphite, which is the Google Docs type app." 0:27:05 Peter: "We've been looking for a long time for some sort of non-Google "Can't Be Evil" alternative to Google Docs." 0:29:29 Peter: "Network effects are a bitch, to put it a somewhat grotesque way. If you're talking about a communication system or a system where people pay each other, the systems that succeeded are not the ones that were best architected." 0:29:55 Peter: "Just look at all the attempts and failures at doing encrypted email." 0:30:16 Peter: "You're just going to default to the one everyone's on, even if it's not great for privacy." 0:32:32 Muneeb: "We're super excited to have [Neal Stephenson] at the 2019 Summit in San Francisco. I think Naval Ravikant is going to have a fireside chat." 0:33:40 Peter: "The Diamond Age describes Zcash." 0:36:01 Muneeb: "Coming back to this idea of decentralized applications - one model I have in my mind was when Linux was starting." 0:38:51 Peter: "Maybe decentralized apps will have their best success early on in those sort of niche enterprise / highly technical persons use-cases." 0:40:16 Peter: "Good luck getting a bunch of lawyers even to this day to group edit a Google Doc, let alone use Graphite." 0:40:24 Muneeb: "I think we knew that Linux won the server wars when even Microsoft started using Linux in their data centers." 0:40:32 Peter: "[Microsoft] has done a total 180, probably because they saw the writing on the wall as far as their consumer software business." 0:40:56 Muneeb: "What do you think of Facebook Libra?" 0:41:05 Peter: "I have a lot of thoughts about Facebook Libra. I should be careful about what I say because I don't want to be unfair." 0:41:30 Peter: "It's a really complicated system they're building that is still nonetheless permissioned. It's a permissioned blockchain." 0:42:29 Peter: "[Libra] is not an open blockchain. It's not a blockchain where anyone can add transactions to the ledger and independently verify the transactions." 0:43:15 Peter: "With Bitcoin, there's a lot of regulations that don't apply because it would be nonsensical to apply them because there isn't a centralized intermediary who you can trust to achieve the policy result you want." 0:43:32 Peter: "With Libra, that's not true at all. There are identified parties who you could trust to achieve the policy result you want." 0:43:56 Peter: "Even if you're an individual, you're not allowed to transact or interact economically with someone on the SDN list, like everyone in Iran." 0:44:42 Peter: "The Libra association is going to be this group of identified persons, which are really just corporations, including Facebook, Visa, and Mastercard. Whose laws are they going to comply with with respect to sanctions?" 0:45:21 Peter: "[Libra's] not censorship resistant cash. It's not really a cryptocurrency. It's just another payment rail. Why build it in such a complicated way?" 0:45:43 Peter: "Another thought is the whole reserve thing. So aside from being permissioned vs permissionless, Lbra is going to be asset-backed." 0:46:36 Peter: "If you are a company that has assets in a reserve, and people are trading - effectively - a pro-rata share of the value of those assets? That sounds like a security to me." 0:47:16 Peter: "And yet, I don't think there's plans to register Libra as a security because, frankly, if you did, it would be very useless as a currency, because it would only be allowed to be traded on securities exchanges." 0:48:09 Peter: "I've never seen such a rapid and aggressive response from members of Congress to a new tech project." 0:49:28 Muneeb: "Do you think the reaction from Washington is linked with some of the antitrust stuff as well?" 0:50:07 Peter: "Maybe they thought, 'This is us proving that we're investing in being less powerful'? Kind of like how they talk about WhatsApp a lot now." 0:51:03 Peter: "People in Congress ... are gonna say, 'This is Facebook, who some of us are already talking about anti-trust issues, and now they want to become the global reserve currency for all payments everywhere?" 0:51:40 Peter: "If any company is going to build a payments tool, they should build cryptocurrencies. I'm just disappointed they didn't basically fork Bitcoin or integrate it." 0:52:13 Muneeb: "That's what they say in the whitepaper, 'We're giving ourselves five years to figure out how to build an open system, but in the meanwhile - because of scalability - the only way to scale to a billion users is to use a closed system." 0:52:54 Peter: "I've heard a lot of people say that Move, the smart contract language [Facebook's] architected, is apparently extremely elegant." 0:53:17 Muneeb: "The motivation for Move is very similar to the smart contract language that we launched yesterday, Clarity." 0:54:38 Peter: "God knows that Solidity has had this particular issue where it's hard to know exactly what you just wrote in a smart contract until you launch it on Mainnet and someone breaks it in the DAO hack example." 0:55:44 Muneeb: "Ethereum is very interesting. They have a large community and kind of started everyone in the industry in a certain direction from a technology perspective. And I believe that most of those things were wrong." 0:57:05 Peter: "Maybe the network effects are just age-based, but it could also be this willingness to push stuff out there maybe before it's fully manicured or even fully compliant with the law." 0:57:51 Peter: "I should disclose that I'm a member of the Zcash Foundation's Board of Directors." 1:00:00 Muneeb: "I swear we're not doing this on purpose, but every decision we make ends up being the exact opposite of Ethereum." 1:04:13 Muneeb: "What's the biggest project you're spending your time on these days?" 1:05:50 Peter: "We were faced around a year and a half ago with, 'What's going to be a big issue in a year or two years? What do we need to start laying the groundwork on from a policy perspective now in order to have good policy outcomes later?'" 1:07:12 Peter: "Bitcoin, I think, ultimately needs to change and be more private and a lot of the privacy coins that we now see were originally proposed as amendments to the Bitcoin protocol." 1:08:38 Peter: "Any of the very public blockchains will ultimately need to find ways to obscure that transaction graph because, otherwise, we're gonna just be giving totalitarian states the best tool for mass surveillance that anyone's ever developed." 1:08:52 Peter: "So, with that in mind, we said 'What are the policy issues here?' And the big ones are anti money laundering law." 1:09:18 Peter: "Bank robbers use getaway cars. Even terrorists use encrypted messaging. This is just a reality, but that doesn't mean we should ban automobiles and encryption." 1:10:06 Peter: "We use the term 'electronic cash' because it's really like cash then. You can send it from one person to another, no one is in between, it's censorship resistant, and it doesn't leave a record." 1:10:23 Peter: "What if we get some sort of overbearing, overzealous response from policy makers that says we can't have these things anymore?" 1:11:51 Peter: "Most people have written about First Amendment issues here: ... if you're writing in computer code... it's still speech." 1:12:44 Peter: "What I don't think is a well enough explored area are the Fourth Amendment issues. The Fourth Amendment in the US says you need a warrant if you're a law enforcement and want to search somebody." 1:13:43 Peter: "Banks have been reporting our entire transaction history to governments whenever they ask, without a warrant, since 1970." 1:14:12 Peter: "The reason why that's constitutional in this context is because people willingingly hand over those records to banks during the regular course of business. ... You lose your reasonable expectation of privacy because your sharing it with a third-party." 1:15:09 Peter: "There's no reason for a developer to have all that private information about the users of their software. There's definitely a reason for a bank to have a bunch of information about the users of the bank." 1:15:48 Peter: "From a constitutional law standpoint... the only reason why it's okay for banks to bulk collect, surveil their users, and report that to government without a warrant, is that they have a reasonable business purpose to collect that information." 1:16:03 Peter: "There's no reasonable business purpose for an open source software developer to collect information about the users of their software - it just doesn't make sense." 1:16:29 Peter: "If it's interesting to your audience, I highly recommend you pick up our report. It's explained much more carefully and you don't need to be a lawyer or to have gone to law school to understand it." 1:17:33 Muneeb: "Where can people find you?" 1:17:37 Peter: "All our work at Coin Center is made public and made available at CoinCenter.org. And we rely on donations from people who are just excited about the technology and want to see good advocacy in DC." 1:18:18 Muneeb: "Blockstack is a supporter and we've been extremely happy with our involvement with Coin Center. They've been super helpful whenever we need them." 1:18:29 Muneeb: "Goodbyes." Peter Van Valkenburgh http://twitter.com/valkenburgh Muneeb Ali http://twitter.com/muneeb Zach Valenti http://twitter.com/zachvalenti See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sonya Ellen Mann runs communications for the Zcash Foundation. Sonya's a thinker and writer interested in economics, tribalism, and cypherpunk. We talk about the Pink Pill, cypherpunk, crypto, and anarcho-capitalism among other things. This was a fun, high-energy romp through a lot of topics... Sonya's website is sonyaellenmann.com and you can find her on Twitter @sonyaellenmann. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation: http://bit.ly/2FAi4g0 This conversation was first recorded as a livestream on Youtube. To participate in future livestreams, subscribe to my channel with one click, then click the bell to receive notifications when future livestreams begin. Big thanks to all the patrons who help keep this running.

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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On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with Josh Cincinatti of the ZCash Foundation. At the ZCash Foundation his job is to steward their open source development projects, evangelize privacy and educating developers of its importance, and helping to aid in building a positive culture/community that promotes sound governance. Josh is a wealth of knowledge filling us in on the Powers of Tau ceremony, upcoming changes to the ZCash protocol, and his vision for the ZCash Foundation. Show Links: ZCash Foundation: http://z.cash.foundation ZCon0 Conference Sign-up: https://z.cash.foundation//zcon/ ZCash Company: http://zcash.co Intro/Outro Music "Back and Forth" by Jay Vinchi: https://soundcloud.com/jayvinchi/back-and-forth Show Sponsor(s): MakerDAO: http://makerdao.com Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty sit down with Joe Urgo and Matus Lestan of the District0x team. What originally started as a few Ethereum-based token contracts for creating a service for freelancing, has now evolved into an upcoming system for creating and managing digital communities and decentralized markets called “Districts”. McKie and Petty dive in and ask questions about their vision, current partnerships for interoperable functionality (i.e. with Aragon), in order to gain more insight into all the exciting possibilities they store for the future. The team also shares with us tips for potential Ethereum developers and entrepreneurs in the space curious to get in on all the fun. Show Links: District0x Website: http://Distrixt0x.com District0x Slack: https://district0x-slack.herokuapp.com/ Intro/Outro Music: “Proud of Us” by Bugus https://soundcloud.com/bugus1/proud-of-us-prod-russ Show Sponsor(s): ZCash: https://z.cash ZCash Foundation: https://z.cash/blog/announcing-the-zcash-foundation.html TokenData ICO Analysis & Data: http://tokendata.io Learn Ethereum Software Development: http://Zastrin.com, use code “BlockChannel” to save 50% off.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Dr. Petty are joined by Dan Finlay from the Metamask team. Metamask is a chrome extension that enables you to access a variety of different ethereum related tokens in order to transact and interact with the web — with the additional capabilities of interfacing with the Ethereum public chain. Their plugin and service has exploded in popularity, and developers are using it to embed Ethereum related functionality into traditional webpages. These sorts of services are pivotal in bringing more adoption in the crypto space by simplifying interacting with these new complex networks of trust online; thankfully we picked Dan's head accordingly and got the scoop on their vision and background. We also discuss ICOs, and potential alternative methods for raising that may be coming around the corner in the future to alleviate congestion on the network. Show Links(s): Metamask: http://metasmask.io Intro/Outro Music “Coins” by Aubrey Gouch:https://soundcloud.com/aubreygouch/coin Show Sponsor(s): ZCash: http://zcash.co ZCash Foundation: https://z.cash/blog/announcing-the-zcash-foundation.html

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie is completely solo; he sits down with Stephen and Russel from REX. REX is seeking to cater to the real estate market, using Ethereum and smart contracts to connect home buyers, vendors, and agents from all over the world. Real estate listings and buying homes can be a fairly complex process; their project aims to simplify this process, from listings, to escrow, to closing. These gentleman believe the real estate industry is ripe for a product like theirs. We agree. Show Link(s): REX: www.rexmls.com/ REX Blog: blog.rexmls.com/ Intro/Outro Music “#FinesseLove” by The Outsiders (prod. by Faruhdey): Outsidersox — Finesselove Show Sponsor(s): ZCash Co: z.cash ZCash Foundation: https://z.cash/tag/foundation.html

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee sit down and chat with Luis Cuende of Aragon. Luis discusses his many tech-related accomplishments leading up to the creation of Aragon, as well as his vision for future of the platform. He gives us opinions on a few other Ethereum projects he has his eyes on, as provides us with advice to share with other budding developer/entrepreneur hybrids like himself. Show Links: Aragon Project: aragon.one/ Intro/Outro Music "Na'Wow" by Umai: Thebaygerian – Nawow-prod-by-trapmoneybenny Show Sponsor(s): ZCash ZCash Blog:z.cash/blog/ ZCash Foundation:z.cash/blog/announcing-the-zcash-foundation.html

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee sit down and chat with Luis Cuende of Aragon. Luis discusses his many tech-related accomplishments leading up to the creation of Aragon, as well as his vision for future of the platform. He gives us opinions on a few other Ethereum projects he has his eyes on, and provides us with advice to share with other budding developer/entrepreneur hybrids like himself. Show Links: Aragon Project: https://aragon.one/ Intro/Outro Music "Na'Wow" by Umai: soundcloud.com/thebaygerian/nawow-prod-by-trapmoneybenny/ Show Sponsor(s): ZCash ZCash Blog:https://z.cash/blog/ ZCash Foundation:https://z.cash/blog/announcing-the-zcash-foundation.html