1 hr 3 min
Getting Off Zero...Knowledge Bitcoin Dad Pod
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- Technology
Pre-Show
CSW is bombing his cross-examination in the COPA case, trying to explain the miraculous circumstances that created the hundreds of a
News
FTX customers are being paid back in full! ...at the bitcoin price of $16k
Citrea claims to be a prototype zero knowledge Etherium Virtual Machine (zk-EVM) built on bitcoin but its not working and might never work
Seth is exited about Citrea
Economics
Chinese stock market drops prompt sudden replacement of a chief regulator, further attempts at bank stimulus
MacroEdge on X: "Nvidia’s now worth as much as the entire Chinese stock market" / X
OpenAI founder Sam Altman is 'seeking $7 trillion investment' - ReadWrite
But it won't work because China has been battling monetary contraction since 2014
This forecasts US Fed stimulus in the near to medium future
Canada seems jealous of the US' attempt to politicize energy policy with a bill that makes promotion of fossil fuels a crime
Privacy
Nitter, our favorite private twitter viewing frontend, is dead
Chris on Nostr
Altcoins
Crypto is preparing for a bull run with Arthur pumping a new altcoin airdrop model that's less similar to an IPO and likely informed by the Ripple win against the SEC
Bitcoin Education
What are rollups? Glad you asked..
Originally described by Goldwasser, Micali, and Rackoff in their 1985 paper "The Knowledge Complexity Of Interactive Proof Systems", zk proofs are a type of cryptographic proof defined as "those proofs that contain no additional knowledge other than the correctness of the proposition in question".
Greg Maxwell, who wrote about "zero knowledge contingent payments" in the Bitcoin Wiki in 2011. Maxwell later worked with Sean Bowe, Pieter Wuille, and Madars Virza to implement the protocol in 2016.34 In May 2013, Miers et al published the Zerocoin paper, showing how zk proofs could be integrated directly into the bitcoin protocol to hide the addresses involved in a bitcoin transaction
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Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
Pre-Show
CSW is bombing his cross-examination in the COPA case, trying to explain the miraculous circumstances that created the hundreds of a
News
FTX customers are being paid back in full! ...at the bitcoin price of $16k
Citrea claims to be a prototype zero knowledge Etherium Virtual Machine (zk-EVM) built on bitcoin but its not working and might never work
Seth is exited about Citrea
Economics
Chinese stock market drops prompt sudden replacement of a chief regulator, further attempts at bank stimulus
MacroEdge on X: "Nvidia’s now worth as much as the entire Chinese stock market" / X
OpenAI founder Sam Altman is 'seeking $7 trillion investment' - ReadWrite
But it won't work because China has been battling monetary contraction since 2014
This forecasts US Fed stimulus in the near to medium future
Canada seems jealous of the US' attempt to politicize energy policy with a bill that makes promotion of fossil fuels a crime
Privacy
Nitter, our favorite private twitter viewing frontend, is dead
Chris on Nostr
Altcoins
Crypto is preparing for a bull run with Arthur pumping a new altcoin airdrop model that's less similar to an IPO and likely informed by the Ripple win against the SEC
Bitcoin Education
What are rollups? Glad you asked..
Originally described by Goldwasser, Micali, and Rackoff in their 1985 paper "The Knowledge Complexity Of Interactive Proof Systems", zk proofs are a type of cryptographic proof defined as "those proofs that contain no additional knowledge other than the correctness of the proposition in question".
Greg Maxwell, who wrote about "zero knowledge contingent payments" in the Bitcoin Wiki in 2011. Maxwell later worked with Sean Bowe, Pieter Wuille, and Madars Virza to implement the protocol in 2016.34 In May 2013, Miers et al published the Zerocoin paper, showing how zk proofs could be integrated directly into the bitcoin protocol to hide the addresses involved in a bitcoin transaction
Feedback
Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element, details here
Thank you Boosters
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Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com
Value for Value
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps:
Fountain podcast app (Android)
Podverse (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby for boosts
Castamatic (Apple)
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
1 hr 3 min