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Discovering the Concept of Encoding Time as Data
The speaker reflects on their early days in crypto and their discovery of encoding the passage of time as data, which led to the foundation of proof of history. They discuss their struggles in finding information on verifiable delay functions and their realization of stumbling upon something unique. The chapter also touches on their collaboration with their co-founder and their ongoing work in low-level optimization techniques.