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In this week’s episode, we sit down with Joseph Bonneau, Assistant Professor at NYU and co-author on the Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) paper. We discuss VDFs, what they are, how they were developed and what they can be used for.  Here are a few links that we reference:  Blockchain 101: Randomness episode with Justin Drake Verifiable Delay Functions by Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt Bünz, and Ben Fisch vdfresearch.org Numbers Game A Programmer Solved a 20-Year-Old, Forgotten Crypto Puzzle Bitcoin Book Thank you to this week's sponsor Trail of Bits Trail of bit recently released a blog post that might be interesting for our listeners who are concerned about privacy. The post is about the concept of 'Safe browsing'. Safe browsing claims to protect users by providing them with something called k-anonymity.  Recent security news suggests that the k-anonymity has failed at protecting user privacy in certain circumstances. This is the topic that Trail of Bits explores in the blog post. Find out more about how k-anonymity works and why it is insufficient here: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/10/30/how-safe-browsing-fails-to-protect-user-privacy/ If you like what we do:  Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Support our Gitcoin Grant Support us on the ZKPatreon Or directly here:  ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ 

In this week’s episode, we sit down with <a href="http://jbonneau.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joseph Bonneau</a>, Assistant Professor at NYU and co-author on the Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) paper. We discuss VDFs, what they are, how they were developed and what they can be used for. Here are a few links that we reference: <a href="https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/74" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blockchain 101: Randomness episode with Justin Drake</a> <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/601.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Verifiable Delay Functions by Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt Bünz, and Ben Fisch</a> <a href="https://vdfresearch.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">vdfresearch.org</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Numbers Game</a> <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/a-programmer-solved-a-20-year-old-forgotten-crypto-puzzle/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Programmer Solved a 20-Year-Old, Forgotten Crypto Puzzle</a> <a href="http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bitcoin Book</a> Thank you to this week's sponsor <a href="https://trailofbits.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Trail of Bits</a> Trail of bit recently released a blog post that might be interesting for our listeners who are concerned about privacy. The post is about the concept of 'Safe browsing'. Safe browsing claims to protect users by providing them with something called k-anonymity. Recent security news suggests that the k-anonymity has failed at protecting user privacy in certain circumstances. This is the topic that Trail of Bits explores in the blog post. Find out more about how k-anonymity works and why it is insufficient here: <a href="https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/10/30/how-safe-browsing-fails-to-protect-user-privacy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/10/30/how-safe-browsing-fails-to-protect-user-privacy/</a> If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@zeroknowledgefm</a> Join us on <a href="https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Telegram</a> Support our <a href="https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gitcoin Grant</a> Support us on the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ZKPatreon</a> Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

Episode 103: Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau

Joseph Bonneau is co-author of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, a popular textbook. At NYU, he works as an assistant professor exploring cryptography and security. His YouTube lessons teaching Bitcoin have hundreds of thousands of views. His material offers clear explanations of how Bitcoin works. Since Joseph has a clear understanding of the objective facts around Bitcoin, he is the perfect person to ask about the more subjective topics: the common misunderstandings of Bitcoin; the governance tradeoffs between Ethereum and Bitcoin; proof of work vs. proof of stake. Joseph believes that the early mainstream cryptocurrency solutions will be largely centralized—and that we are likely to move beyond Bitcoin to more efficient currencies. I enjoyed hearing his reasons behind this perspective. Meetups for Software Engineering Daily are being planned! Go to softwareengineeringdaily.com/meetup if you want to register for an upcoming Meetup. In March, I’ll be visiting Datadog in New York and Hubspot in Boston, and in April I’ll be at Telesign in LA. The post Bitcoin’s Future with Joseph Bonneau appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Joseph Bonneau is co-author of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, a popular textbook. At NYU, he works as an assistant professor exploring cryptography and security. His YouTube lessons teaching Bitcoin have hundreds of thousands of views. His material offers clear explanations of how Bitcoin works. Since Joseph has a clear understanding of the objective facts around Bitcoin, he is the perfect person to ask about the more subjective topics: the common misunderstandings of Bitcoin; the governance tradeoffs between Ethereum and Bitcoin; proof of work vs. proof of stake. Joseph believes that the early mainstream cryptocurrency solutions will be largely centralized—and that we are likely to move beyond Bitcoin to more efficient currencies. I enjoyed hearing his reasons behind this perspective. Meetups for Software Engineering Daily are being planned! Go to <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/meetup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">softwareengineeringdaily.com/meetup</a> if you want to register for an upcoming Meetup. In March, I’ll be visiting Datadog in New York and Hubspot in Boston, and in April I’ll be at Telesign in LA. The post <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/03/06/bitcoins-future-with-joseph-bonneau/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bitcoin’s Future with Joseph Bonneau</a> appeared first on <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Software Engineering Daily</a>.

Bitcoin’s Future with Joseph Bonneau