Join Dominique and David and their guests Howard Wu and Sina Kian of Aleo. Howard and Sina care about privacy and the dangers of blockchain transparency. They describe how they have used Zero Knowledge Proof to change the way transactions on blockchain are verified so that the verification can be done privately—not only protecting the users’ personal data but dramatically extending the design space for applications. They tell us how this has profound implications for the internet of the future—Internet 3.0. These guys are super smart—Howard collaborated with prominent academics from Berkley and Cornell to publish the breakthrough paper on Zero Knowledge Proof, Zexe: Enabling Decentralized Private Computation. Sina is also extremely impressive as he went from law school and a clerkship for Chief Justice Roberts to a becoming a blockchain entrepreneur. Hear them discuss blockchain, privacy, and Internet 3.0, as well as the development of cryptocurrency and their goals to create a compliance regime and technology that structurally protects the consumer. This is dense and heady and big-time important as cryptocurrency evolves and blockchain technology assumes increasing significance in our lives.
You can find the paper at this link:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/962.pdf