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Shielded Transactions | Bitcoin's Privacy Problem (with Zooko Wilcox)

The Foresight Institute Podcast

CHAPTER

The Future of Bitcoin

Zuko: At the 2013 San Jose Bitcoin conference, there was a lot of buzz about privacy as a way to empower people. Matt Green called me and said these other scientists had already come up with all the fundamental concepts in terms of how to do zero knowledge proofs efficiently. He says they just called him for like the last mile of like productionizing it making an industrial strength. The next day after I slept on it that I thought, you know what, everyone needs privacy for all their normal stuff.

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