Citizen Web3 Podcast

A Giant Anthill, Humanity's Future and ZK with Karel Kubat

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This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Karel Kubat from Union

Karel Kubat is passionate about the transformative potential of technology, particularly in AI and cryptocurrency, emphasizing the importance of individual opinion in a rapidly changing world. He views society as a decentralized "giant anthill," where our last vestige of humanity lies in our ability to think independently amidst technological advancements.

Union is a hyper-efficient zero-knowledge infrastructure for secure message passing, asset transfers, NFTs, and DeFi, relying on consensus verification without third-party dependencies. Utilizing advanced Zero-Knowledge Cryptography and BLS signatures, Union delivers the fastest, most secure inter-blockchain communication protocol (IBC) globally

We spoke to Karel Kubat about Union and:
  • Falling in love with statistics
  • Expense on security
  • AI or Crypto
  • Technologies that really could shift humanity
  • At some point, we started losing our concentration
  • The only thing that we really have is our ability to form opinions
  • Our final vestige humanity we're kind of now offloading
  • Crypto tells you, form your own opinions
  • Fully open Wild West
  • There is no big plan
  • Human society is a giant anthill
  • Short-term privacy for MEV-resistant
  • Contribution to humanity

    • Timestamps

    00:00 – 05:21 : Intro

    05:21 -- 14:20 : Validators
    14:20 -- 25:44 : Changing the world
    25:44 -- 30:50 : Consensus and the future
    30:50 -- 37:30 : ZK proofs for a teenager
    37:30 -- 43:25 : What are ZK ceremonies?
    43:10 -- 55:00 : Privacy
    55:00 – 57:59 : The Blitz

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      • Special Guest: Karel Kubat.

      Links:

      • Binance
      • Bitcoin
      • Boxer
      • Chorus
      • Cosmos
      • Cosmos SDK
      • DYDX V4
      • George Carlin
      • Hyperliquid
      • Kepler
      • Lisbon
      • Netherlands
      • P2P
      • Portugal
      • RISC0
      • Russia
      • Solana
      • Stakefish
      • Telegram
      • Tendermint
      • Three body problem
      • TikTok
      • Tornado Cash
      • Uniswap
      • X (formerly Twitter)
      • YouTube
      • ZK proofs
      • Zuckerberg
      ...more
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