2020-04-02 · timestamps by ADAtainment
UPD 03/04/2020
- The third annual ZKProof workshop moved from London to a virtual Home Edition because of coronavirus, running April 20th to May 21st, and everyone should attend at least one session.
- Zero knowledge cryptography is the most applied research in the space, because it is the only long term way to keep inclusive accountability, privacy and scalability as blockchains grow beyond what a normal user can verify.
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Promoting the third annual ZKProof workshop, moved from London to a virtual Home Edition because of coronavirus, April 20th to May 21st every Monday and Thursday at 3 p.m. UTC.
Zero knowledge research matters because inclusive accountability, the idea from Bitcoin's first day on January 3rd 2009 that everyone checks each other's work, is the thing it preserves.
As blockchains grow from gigabytes to terabytes, exabytes and yottabytes, and as voting, property registration and multi-asset get added, fewer people can run a full node and verify the whole history.
Zero knowledge cryptography is a beautiful path to privacy and scalability at once while keeping inclusive accountability, and the workshop is a no bullshit academic conference that also standardizes existing solutions.
IOHK published the Sonic paper in December 2018 and spent over a year implementing it in Rust as an improved zero knowledge proof system, and IOHK scientists will present it alongside Algorand and others.
IOHK is a platinum sponsor of the event, in very good company with the other sponsors, and it is exciting how far the space has evolved in such a short period of time.