CK's Cold Dive cronokirby

Topics
* The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
* Prof. Cochrane’s Blog
* The Fiscal Theory, as applied to Bitcoin and Ethereum
* Blockchains as Government more broadly
* Foreign token reserves?
* Fees paid as tokenized bonds?
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Topics:
* Why I think the subfield of cryptographic proofs is interesting and worthwhile
* Why I keep coming back and thinking about it
* Why you want machines to check proofs (eventually)
* Some ideas for a new graphical proof language for protocols
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Topics
* Generic groups.
* A trio of interesting papers:
* To Label, or Not To Label (in Generic Groups)
* The Algebraic Group Model
* An Analysis of the Algebraic Group Model
I should also mention that Léo Ducas had some similar ideas way back in 2009
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Topics:
* An anecdote about idealized hash functions
* https://cronokirby.com/posts/2022/04/canettis-paradoxical-encryption-scheme/
* My preliminary thoughts on developing a theory of meta-cryptography using category theory.
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Topics:
* A little bit about MPS.
* A little bit about Cait-Sith.
* Bulletin Boards for MPC.
* Applications of the bulletin board model.
* Robust Schnorr Signatures.
* Some deception around group reconstruction circuits.
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Topics:
* What is Threshold ECDSA again?
* What is a CAIT-SITH?
* Simulating networked benchmarks
* API design for protocol libraries
* The advantage of key-independent preprocessing
* Planned improvements
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