Zerocash: Addressing Bitcoin's Privacy Problem

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A Google TechTalk, 8/28/17, presented by Alessandro Chiesa
Abstract: In Bitcoin, a payment's details are broadcast in the clear, so that anyone can verify its validity. Unfortunately, this violates user privacy and sacrifices coin fungibility. I will describe the Zerocash protocol, which uses zero knowledge proofs to achieve privacy-preserving payments in a Bitcoin-like system. This protocol was recently deployed in the wild, as part of the cryptocurrency Zcash.

About the Speaker: Alessandro Chiesa is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. His research spans the areas of complexity theory, cryptography, and security, and focuses on the theoretical foundations and practical implementations of cryptographic proof systems such as zero knowledge proofs. He is a co-inventor of Zerocash and co-founder of Zcash. He is an author of libsnark, the leading open-source library for succinct zero knowledge proofs. He has received a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 2014, and B.S. degrees in computer science and in mathematics from MIT in 2009.
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the audio is horrible, and was it really necessary to save the video from the remote sites?

tohopes
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Interesting contemporary talk but audio quality is highly lacking.

ranbirparmar
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I kinda wish he had just explained how zk proofs work.

aaronr.
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Wallets generate new addresses, privacy is not an issue, fungibility is effective. Get the book " Bitcoin for the Befuddled ". Good work on Zerocash, but ZC will probably be absorbed into the BTC protocol. Keep working on ZC.

xiloeteknowledgiesllc
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I am not convinced the problem you are trying to solve is a real world problem.

chrach