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Why Zero-Knowledge Proofs Are Critical to Ethereum’s Future - Ep. 473

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The Pros and Cons of Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems

Some of the zero-knowledge proof systems that have been deployed require this trust is set up. If somehow someone subverts this trusted setup mechanism, in particular there's randomness involved in the trust-head setup. So if you use false proofs, there's a terrible situation in this world because basically it would allow me to prove to you that certain things that are false actually are correct. That basically results in theft of assets.

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