The Importance of Consensus in Blockchain Systems

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Alistair Stewart and Jeff Burges, researchers at the Web3 Foundation, to dig into what they are working on, what they are thinking about at the moment, and how zero knowledge proofs can be used throughout the Polkadot ecosystem.

Here are some links and ressources to check out:

• Gavin Wood episode
• Rob Habermeier episode
• The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
• Daniel Bernstein on Twitter
• Isogenies VDF
• Axolotl Ratchet

Thank you to this week's sponsor Trail of Bits

Check out the blog post describing how Manticore could have discovered the ENS bug here: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/03/03/manticore-discovers-the-ens-bug/

Thanks again Trail of Bits.

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