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Discussions about zero knowledge proofs, related cryptography and its applications.

anyone recall the story behind Schnorr signatures not being widely adopted? was it because of patents?

https://x.com/annarrose/status/1870137037572964569?s=46
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hash based SNARKs vs pairing based SNARKs
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A friend is organizing a Community Privacy Residency in Tapei

https://community-privacy.github.io/
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🚀 Deutsche Bank is making history as one of the first major banks to build a Layer 2 blockchain on Ethereum using zksync!
https://watcher.guru/news/deutsche-bank-to-build-a-l2-blockchain-on-ethereum
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what is the motivation behind adapting aes-gcm as a commitment scheme?
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Go and check if you're one of the nearly 900k eligible addresses to the $align claim. Various criteria apply such as having held tokens of mina or zksync during the bear market.

dyor nfa, I have a valid claim but no affiliation to aligned foundation
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Proof of residency using SP1 and @hyle-org built by the talented Rute!

Extending the trust you put in digital signatures is fantastic for accessibility. Kudos to the ATCud signature system in Portugal which enables signed invoices!

https://x.com/_rutefig/status/1868674006616047921
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Learning about Circle STARKs and fell into a deep rabbit hole of Riemann-Roch spaces. I love crypto.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/278
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what's everyone's thought on Brave's Distefano? Is it just the proxy model with extra steps and TLS 1.3? cc @eulerlagrange.eth

https://x.com/brave/status/1864358727916142636
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Having done research at the highest level in ZK @0xserious, how do you feel about the space now?
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Jens wrote the Origo zkTLS paper. Let’s show him some love

https://github.com/opex-research/origo-zkp

@luc if you don’t know Jens you guys really should.
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Mina is #8 across all ecosystems for full time developer growth 🔥

I believe 2025 will be lit for Mina

cc @electric
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The 4 data genders:
- unencrypted & closed-off data: facebook, telegram
- encrypted & closed-off data: signal, whatsapp
- unencrypted & open data: ethereum, wikipedia
- encrypted & open data: 👀👀👀
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goated slide
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verifying pairings instead of computing 🤔

https://youtu.be/rrm5kN2IUrs?si=NfpTyyKTe7T_KsNe
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