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13/05/2023

Blockchains as Government?

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? If you enjoyed this episode, and want to get notified when the next one arrives, feel free to subscribe: If you want even more updates, feel free to check out my blog, and you can even follow me on Twitter. (Or on Bluesky). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cronokirby.substack.com

31 phút
10/05/2023

Woops, Another Proof Framework

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 If you enjoyed this episode, and want to get notified when the next one arrives, feel free to subscribe: If you want even more updates, feel free to check out my blog, and you can even follow me on Twitter. (Or on Bluesky). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cronokirby.substack.com

31 phút
10/03/2023

Idealized Models for Free

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 If you enjoyed this episode, and want to get notified when the next one arrives, feel free to subscribe: If you want even more updates, feel free to check out my blog, and you can even follow me on Twitter. (Or on Mastodon). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cronokirby.substack.com

30 phút
09/03/2023

Sketches of Meta-Cryptography

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. If you enjoyed this episode, and want to get notified when the next one arrives, feel free to subscribe: If you want even more updates, feel free to check out my blog, and you can even follow me on Twitter. (Or on Mastodon). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cronokirby.substack.com

26 phút
08/03/2023

Procrastinating on my Master's Thesis

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. If you enjoyed this episode, and want to get notified when the next one arrives, feel free to subscribe: If you want even more updates, feel free to check out my blog, and you can even follow me on Twitter. (Or on Mastodon). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cronokirby.substack.com

26 phút
07/03/2023

Cool Another Interesting Threshold Signature In The House

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 If you enjoyed this episode, and want to get notified when the next one arrives, feel free to subscribe: If you want even more updates, feel free to check out my blog, and you can even follow me on Twitter. (Or on Mastodon). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cronokirby.substack.com

32 phút
07/01/2023

2023 is the New 1971

* 1:10 Thoughts on why AI will not cause as much economic growth as people think * 16:10 Why ML techniques would benefit from better integration with classical techniques If you enjoyed this episode, and want to get notified when the next one arrives, feel free to subscribe: If you want even more updates, feel free to follow me on Twitter. (Or on Mastodon). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cronokirby.substack.com

30 phút
23/11/2022

They Don't Know about Non-Interactive MPC

Topics covered in this episode: * 1:00 Legibility, and an overview of the rest of the episode. * 2:50 What is fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)? * 7:28 Some applications of FHE. * 8:15 Contrasting this with MPC. * 11:50 Why you shouldn’t need to care about implementation details for applications. * 14:28 Why I’m annoyed when people conflate Machine Learning and computing. * 23:20 The legibility problem, and why these kinds of conflations are inevitable. If you enjoyed this episode, and want to get notified when the next one arrives, feel free to subscribe: If you want even more updates, feel free to follow me on Twitter. (Or on Mastodon). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cronokirby.substack.com

32 phút

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