This is the second part of a two three-part series, which covers some recent results on “verifiable computation” and possible pitfalls that could occur there. This post won’t make…| A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
Trigger warning: incredibly wonky theoretical cryptography post (written by a non-theorist)! Also, this will be in two parts. I plan to be back with some more thoughts on practical stuff, like clou…| A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
An introduction to the different scaling options currently being developed by the Ethereum community.| ethereum.org
In 2022 a consortium of companies ran an international competition,called the ZPrize, to advance the state ofthe art in “zero-knowledge” cryptography. We dec...| Jane Street Tech Blog
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tl;dr - Crypto does have a few usecases, ETH2’s switch to Proof of Stake means it’s worth building on, and Blockchain represents a chance to reshape policy and regulation that is ossified. Slightly longer TL;DR I am keenly aware of how much everyone hates reading about crypto so I’m going to try and front load as much of my thesis as possible, as plainly as possible. You do not have to read this whole thing, you can literally just read this section and be done.| vadosware.io