In this episode, we speak to Benedikt Bünz, the author of Bulletproofs, about this zero knowledge proof system as well as about Verifiable Delay Functions.
In this episode, we speak with Matthew Di Ferrante of the smart contract auditing firm Zero Knowledge Labs about security in the blockchain.
In this episode, we sit down with our friend Howard Wu to explore zkSNARKs, the challenges in the application of this awesome technology, the new ideas emerging for how to scale them and his latest work on DIZK. Howard was an early member of Blockchain at Berkeley, is the co-author of Libsnark, and is a managing partner of Dekrypt Capital.
In this episode, we sit down with Raul & Preston from Prysmatic Labs to discuss sharding, the evolution of the spec, Ethereum 2.0, what happens to a side chain during a hard fork, and whats coming up for this important scaling solution.
In this episode, we speak with Eric Tang from Livepeer about the need for off-chain computation, what scenarios make sense for on-chain and what should be done off-chain. We also discuss how Livepeer fits into the ecosystem and how they aim to help more people livestream in a decentralised way.
In this episode, we sit down with Ethan (Bucky) Buchman, co-founder & CTO of Tendermint, to talk about testnets. We look into what they are, what purpose they serve and cover examples from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos and Polkadot.
In this episode, we dig into the topic of smart contracts with our guest James Prestwich. We explore what the term smart contract means, where it comes from, some use cases and some of the new challenges that come along with it.
In this episode, we sit down with Ele and Alexis from OSCoin to talk about what they are building and the general problem of open source incentivization.
In this week’s episode, we cover the Zcon0 conference in Montreal. In our interviews with some of the participants, we explore the zcash community, projects actually implementing zero knowledge proofs, and some of the most exciting ideas to be generated at the event!
In this introductory episode, we discuss what makes up blocks and block headers. We also cover a bit about state vs history, what exactly makes up a transaction and do a tiny intro to a Merkle Tree.
In this episode, we speak with Jack du Rose and Aron Fischer from Colony about governance and open organizations.
In this episode, Griff Green shares his story about The DAO, the white hat hacker group & Giveth
