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Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau


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In this week’s episode, we sit down with Joseph Bonneau, Assistant Professor at NYU and co-author on the Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) paper. We discuss VDFs, what they are, how they were developed and what they can be used for.

Here are a few links that we reference:


Blockchain 101: Randomness episode with Justin Drake


Verifiable Delay Functions by Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt Bünz, and Ben Fisch


vdfresearch.org


Numbers Game


A Programmer Solved a 20-Year-Old, Forgotten Crypto Puzzle


Bitcoin Book

Thank you to this week's sponsor Trail of Bits


Trail of bit recently released a blog post that might be interesting for our listeners who are concerned about privacy. The post is about the concept of 'Safe browsing'. Safe browsing claims to protect users by providing them with something called k-anonymity.


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