I think the proofs protect against somebody kind of putting a transaction in the batch that like never existed. So they're protecting against like fake transactions, which is like how you can steal money,. Whereas a separate concern is censorship resistance, which is not fake transactions, but just like refusing to put real transactions and have them be processed. To compare themselves as like the antithesis of FTX is maybe a step too far at this stage, right? Like they're not there yet. There's a firm distinction, I think between like 80 bits and 100 bits, right? The distinction is somewhere between that level, forging Proofs really becomes truly infeasible with current known attacks.
This week, Anna chats with Justin Thaler, Associate Professor at Georgetown. They cover Justin’s academic history and discuss what led him to working on interactive proofs and SNARKs. They also take a look at several other topics such as the Thaler Book Study Group, his earlier work Spartan, comparing the security of different rollups built with SNARKs and STARKs and more.
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